Walking to School Supports

Psychosocial Supports for Walking to School Paired With a Walking School Bus

This pilot study will test the feasibility and acceptability of an enhanced individual-level intervention delivered to 4th-6th graders to increase rates of walking to/from school. Up to 8 youth who do not already walk to school will be enrolled into the intervention. The theoretically-based intervention content will be delivered over 6 weeks through family-based telephone coaching sessions, ongoing short message service (SMS) text messaging, and activities and content on the study website.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Support for walking to school

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 32
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
      • Children's Mercy Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 5 years to 13 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parents of children enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school
• Parents/child dyads who completed the Phase 1 survey OR respond to recruitment attempts and express interest in walking to school. Included parent/child dyads will be:

Those who do not participate in LINC program both before and after school 4+ days per week (child); Those who live within the school boundary and south of Meyer Blvd (i.e., close enough to an existing walking school bus route) or are willing to drop off and/or pick up the child at a place along an existing walking school bus route (i.e., remote drop off).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children not enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school
• Those who participate in LINC program both before and after school 4+ days per week (child); Those who do not live within the school boundary and south of Meyer Blvd (i.e., close enough to an existing walking school bus route) or are not willing to drop off and/or pick up the child at a place along an existing walking school bus route (i.e., remote drop off).
• We will exclude each of the following special populations:

Adults unable to consent Prisoners Wards of the state Pregnant women may be included, but only in such capacity as parents of other children enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Psychosocial intervention; Text messaging and health coaching over the telephone to address goal setting, monitoring, motivation, problem solving, and related skills, delivered over 6 weeks.	Behavioral: Support for walking to school; 5 modules that address psychosocial skills, with ongoing text messaging.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Acceptability of Intervention: "Satisfaction Questionnaire"	Acceptability and preferences related to intervention content will be measured using a questionnaire developed for this study ("satisfaction questionnaire"). Families (both parent and child responding together) will respond to 5 items asking about satisfaction with the intervention components. Items are rated on a 10-pt scale (minimum:1- maximum:10), with higher values indicating greater satisfaction. They will respond to two additional open-ended questions asking which aspects of the intervention they liked most and least. These qualitative items will be summarized.	at 6 weeks, immediately after completion of the intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Frequency of Walking to School	Number of walking trips to/from school per week (0 to 10) will be assessed using a daily (Mon-Fri) tracking questionnaire completed through RedCap.	up to 6 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
• Collaborators: University of Kansas Medical Center; University of Kansas
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jordan Carlson, PhD, Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 25, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): January 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 10, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 12, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): September 13, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 18, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 14, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00000851

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: De-identified information may be available upon request.

Drug and device information, study documents

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