Girls Can...Move! Testing the Feasibility of a Community-based Physical Activity Intervention for Adolescent Girls

The purpose of this research is to learn about how to promote physical activity among adolescent girls by testing the feasibility and initial effectiveness of the Girls Can...Move! intervention. Girls Can...Move! will target each component of physical literacy by providing opportunities for adolescent girls to gain knowledge about their own physical activity level, to explore and practice different types of physical activities, and to learn from active female role models. Female participants (n = 30) from one middle school will be randomly assigned to the Girls Can...Move! intervention group or a control group at a 1:1 ratio. The primary outcome variables, physical activity and physical literacy, will be assessed before and after the 8-week Girls Can...Move! intervention using accelerometers and online surveys.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Physical Inactivity
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Girls Can...Move!

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 17
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kentucky
    • Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40506
      • University of Kentucky

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 11 years to 15 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female
• Enrolled in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade at target school

Exclusion Criteria:

• Engage in 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on more than 3 days per week
• Doctor has told child/parent that there are certain types of activities that the child should not do
• Preexisting injuries or health conditions that limit physical activity

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control; No-treatment group that only participates in pre- and post-testing.
Experimental: Experimental; Experimental group participants will receive the 8-week Girls Can...Move! program.	Behavioral: Girls Can...Move!; Girls Can...Move! is an 8-week intervention designed to increase physical literacy and physical activity among middle school aged girls. One-hour, in-person sessions will be held twice per week for a total of 16 sessions. Each session involves: a brief educational lesson related to physical activity participation, a 30-minute group physical activity session, and a take-home challenge. The physical activities will prioritize enjoyment of physical activity and promote the development of movement competence. These activities may include: yoga; Zumba; Pilates; strength training; kick boxing; circuit training; etc.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Feasibility of the Girls Can...Move! intervention	The number of participants enrolled, intervention session attendance (experimental group only), and participant satisfaction with intervention (experimental group only) will be included as feasibility measures.	pre-intervention (week 0)
Change in physical activity	Participants will wear an Actigraph accelerometer to measure change in physical activity from pre- to post- intervention for the experimental compared to control group.	pre-intervention immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)
Change in physical literacy	Participants will complete measures of self-reported physical literacy (PLAYself survey) at pre- and post-intervention to measure change in perceived physical literacy between experimental and control groups.	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in peer social support	Participants will complete measures of self-reported peer social support at pre- and post-intervention to measure change in perceived social support between experimental and control groups.	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)
Change in parental social support	Participants will complete measures of self-reported parental social support at pre- and post-intervention to measure change in perceived social support between experimental and control groups.	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Deirdre Dlugonski

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 2, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 26, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): April 26, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 5, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 4, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): February 16, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 29, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 23, 2022
• Last Verified: June 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: exercise; female; accelerometer; physical literacy
• Other Study ID Numbers: 59680

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

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