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NCT05867433 | RECRUITING | Cardiovascular Diseases

Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club: A Civic Engagement Approach to Improving Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Environments
Sponsor:

Texas A&M University

Brief Summary:

Strong Teens for Healthy Schools (STHS) is a school-based, civic engagement program that empowers middle school students to improve their physical activity and healthy eating behaviors, improve their cardiovascular disease outcomes, and create positive change in their school health environments.

Condition or disease

Cardiovascular Diseases

Nutrition

Physical Activity

Intervention/treatment

STHS Intervention

Usual Care

Phase

NA

Detailed Description:

The investigators will conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of the Strong Teens for Healthy Schools (STHS) program on cardiovascular disease-related outcomes. STHS is a multi-level, theory-based civic engagement program to catalyze positive food and physical activity environmental change and improve cardiovascular disease-related health (CVD) outcomes among 6th and 7th-grade students. Title 1 middle schools in Texas (n=20) with \> 40% Hispanic and Black students will be randomized at baseline to the intervention condition (STHS program) or control condition (will continue with usual care, as they will not be asked to add or remove any of their current, physical activity, healthy eating, or positive youth development programming) (n=20-25 students per school). The investigators hypothesize that students who participate in STHS will have reduced MetS risk, improved positive youth developmental outcomes, and improved social and environmental outcomes immediately post-intervention and one year after study completion compared to students in a control condition.

Study Type : INTERVENTIONAL
Estimated Enrollment : 500 participants
Masking : NONE
Primary Purpose : PREVENTION
Official Title : Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club: A Civic Engagement Approach to Improving Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Environments
Actual Study Start Date : 2023-09-27
Estimated Primary Completion Date : 2027-04-15
Estimated Study Completion Date : 2027-04-15

Information not available for Arms and Intervention/treatment

Ages Eligible for Study: 8 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: 1
Criteria
School Inclusion Criteria
  • * \> 50 6th and 7th grade students
  • * \> 40% economically disadvantaged students
  • * \> 40% Black and Hispanic students
  • School Exclusion Criteria
    • Student Inclusion Criteria
      • * 6th or 7th grade student
      • * Attend a Title 1 middle school that is participating in the STHS intervention
      • * Read and understand English
      • Student Exclusion Criteria
        • * Participation in a weight loss program in the past 3 months
        • * Presence of a condition that prevents participation in physical activity
Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club: A Civic Engagement Approach to Improving Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Environments

Location Details

NCT05867433

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Locations

RECRUITING

United States, Texas

Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center

Dallas, Texas, United States, 75252