Be a Champion! Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (BAC!)

Utilizing Physical Activity Coordinators to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth

The purpose of this project is to develop a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) training protocol, and test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of its delivery in an elementary school setting.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Motor Activity
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: CSPAP

Detailed Description

Children across the United States are insufficiently physically active. In response, numerous physical activity (PA) interventions have been developed and tested, the majority within the school setting. Unfortunately, these have resulted in limited, if any impact on children's PA. The investigators feel that this absence of effect stems from a lack of tailoring at the school level and a resulting lack in institutionalization. To address the latter issue, the investigators feel that it is important to leverage existing resources and capitalize on existing policies. The state of South Carolina has instituted the role of "Physical Activity Coordinators" to promote PA among students across and beyond the school day. However, while these positions are mandated by state law, the individuals in these positions often lack the training and support to maximize their impact. Our long-term goal is to develop best practices to inform the national movement to train school PA Coordinators to deliver a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) within schools that can be disseminated across the country. The objectives of the current application are to: 1) modify and expand existing CSPAP training curricula for PA Coordinators; 2) deliver the enhanced PA Coordinator training in our pilot schools; 3) conduct process evaluation on the implementation of a CSPAP by the PA Coordinators, and 4) evaluate the effectiveness of the trainings to increase children's objectively measured PA. The goal of the proposed study is to determine the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of properly train PA Coordinators to promote PA in elementary school children. This goal will be achieved through the following aims: AIM 1: Develop an enhanced CSPAP training course and resource toolkit for PA Coordinators. AIM 2: Determine the acceptability/feasibility of the enhanced PA coordinator training and the implementation of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program in an elementary school setting. AIM 3: Determine the effectiveness of trained PA coordinators to increase objectively measured PA in elementary school youth. the investigators will randomize four schools to receive the PA Coordinator training (n=2) or continue standard practice (n=2). A comprehensive process and impact evaluation will be conducted to determine acceptability of the intervention, factors influencing implementation fidelity/dose, and the effectiveness of the PA Coordinators to increase physical activity measured via accelerometry in children.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 599
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • South Carolina
    • Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29208
      • Justin B. Moore

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 5 years to 12 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Enrolled in grades 2 - 5 at the participating school sites.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical or mental impairment that would preclude physical activity or protocol compliance.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: CSPAP; Schools in this arm will receive the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program training.	Behavioral: CSPAP; Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program.; Other Names: Be a Champion!
No Intervention: Control; Standard practice.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Youth Physical Activity	Physical activity measured using an accelerometer at baseline and one-year follow-up (spring 2015 and spring 2016).	baseline and one-year follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Feasibility of the Be a Champion! Program	Implementation monitoring to determine feasibility of the program as indicated by the percentage of planned tasks achieved with full fidelity and as determined by the number who, a) assembled an implementation team, b) completed all trainings, c) completed self-assessments, d) developed action plans, and e) executed at least one component of their action plans.	Up to nine months.
Acceptability of the Be a Champion! Program	Number of schools that indicated BAC was acceptable, based upon qualitative and quantitative feedback from principals, classroom teachers, and implementation teams.	Up to nine months.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Collaborators: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); University of South Carolina
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Justin Moore, Ph.D., Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Singletary CR, Weaver G, Carson RL, Beets MW, Pate RR, Saunders RP, Peluso AG, Moore JB. Evaluation of a comprehensive school physical activity program: Be a Champion! Eval Program Plann. 2019 Aug;75:54-60. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.04.003. Epub 2019 May 2.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 21, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 4, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): June 8, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 14, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 18, 2018
• Last Verified: October 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Physical Activity; Youth; School Health
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB00038003; 1R21HL121692-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No