Walking to School Supports

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Registration Number: NCT04089020

Lead Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Brief Summary: 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.

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 32

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 & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Acceptability of Intervention: "Satisfaction Questionnaire"	at 6 weeks, immediately after completion of the intervention	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frequency of Walking to School	up to 6 weeks	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.