Participatory Research to Promote Physical Activity

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Co-created intervention to promote physical activity

• Registration Number: NCT03135223
• Lead Sponsor: University Ghent

Brief Summary

Secondary schoolgirls have the most unhealthy profile regarding physical activity and sedentary behaviour of all age groups. Since both behaviours independently contribute to various health outcomes, an effective intervention to promote physical activity and to reduce sedentary behaviour needs to be developed.

Many interventions fail to induce changes in health behaviour, as they often use a top-down approach with limited input from the end-users (i.e. the secondary schoolgirls) of the intervention programmes. This project uses a participatory health research approach by actively involving the girls in the entire research process. A co-creation group was set up per intervention school (n=3), including girls and a researcher which co-created a school-specific intervention, tailored to the needs and interests of those girls.

The effect of participatory process were evaluated via a clustered randomized controlled trial using an intervention and control condition and a pre- and post-test design. Effects on physical activity and related determinants (e.g. self-efficacy, attitude, etcetera) were evaluated. The hypothesis was that girls from the intervention condition would improve their physical activity levels and related determinants compared to no changes among girls from the control schools. The process was evaluated as well using focus group research and the hypothesis was that girls who participate in the co-creation groups would be positive about the process and will feel empowered.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2015-06-30
• Study Completion: 2015-06-30
• Status Verified: 2017-04
• Study First Submitted: 2017-04-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-04-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-04-25
• Study First Posted: 2017-05-01
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 196

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy, female pupils of secondary schools (aim: 10th grade) who volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Co-created intervention to promote physical activity	Co-created, school-based intervention to promote physical activity

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increase in the mean overall physical activity level of adolescent girls	one schoolyear	Overall physical activity (expressed in average minutes per day) is calculated by summing active transportation (i.e. minutes spent in active transportation to school and in leisure time per day) and sport participation (i.e. minutes spent in physical education, extra-curricular sports or physical activities at school and during leisure time per day), measured by the reliable and valid Flemish Physical Activity Questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increase in the mean value of determinants related to physical activity	one schoolyear	Three individual (i.e. self-efficacy, perceived benefits and perceived barriers) and six sociocultural determinants (i.e. peer and parental modelling, peer and parental co-participation and peer and parental encouragement) were assessed using questions from previous studies examining adolescents' health behaviour, of which the predictive validity and reliability have been demonstrated previously. Three school-related determinants (i.e. relationship with classmates, involvement in organising school activities and relationship with teachers) were assessed using items from the Flemish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children questionnaire.