Co-Creating Active Middle School Communities to Increase Student Physical Activity

Part of paid clinical trials in Austin, Texas.

Sponsor
Deanna Hoelscher
Study ID
NCT06970067
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Physical Activity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
11 Years - 99 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Active Middle School Communities — BEHAVIORAL
    This intervention will engage multi-sectoral and multi-generational community members and middle school students to co-produce (co-design, co-implementation, and co-evaluation) contextually-responsive intervention strategies to improve access to active transport and leisure, resulting in increased physical activity and decreased risk for chronic disease in middle school communities. This intervention will use community-based participatory methods, with resources provided for changes in the built environment around the school catchment area.

Study Details

The purpose of this study is to identify community-level barriers and facilitators for active transport and leisure physical activity and to co-create and test the effectiveness and longer-term sustainability of community-based physical activity intervention strategies in middle schools. Participation in this study may help the investigators and scientific community better understand and address child physical activity and health. This study will collect information about middle school children's physical activity behaviors, habits, knowledge, and activity. The UTHealth School of Public Health is leading the study together with the University of Texas at Austin.

Key Dates

Start date
Mar 2, 2026
Status verified
Dec 2025
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2028
Completion
Dec 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment
450 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Physical activity intervention co-produced by the community and investigators
    This intervention will engage multi-sectoral and multi-generational community members and middle school students for co-producing (co-design, co-implementation, and co-evaluation) contextually-responsive intervention strategies to improve access to active transport and leisure in three middle school communities.
  • No Intervention: Usual environmental and programmatic programs
    During the trial, three comparison school communities will not receive the intervention and will engage in usual environmental and programmatic programs. After the trial is completed, these schools will receive a modified version of the programs and strategies developed in the intervention arm (delayed intervention).

Primary Outcome Measure

Child/adolescent physical activity [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12 months (initial effectiveness), and 24 months (sustainability) ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonAustinTexas78701
Deanna M Hoelscher, PhD
[email protected]
5123912510
Sarah S Bentley, MPH
[email protected]
+1 (512) 482 6152
Deanna M Hoelscher, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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