PE Audit and Feedback Pilot Study

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Physical Inactivity; Cardiovascular Diseases
• Interventions: Behavioral: PE Audit and Feedback Tool

• Registration Number: NCT05509803
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley

Brief Summary

School physical education (PE) is one of the most valuable tools for increasing physical activity and fitness among youth of all backgrounds; however, compliance with existing PE laws is low (and differential by school race/ethnic and family-income composition, contributing to health disparities), and best practices for increasing compliance remain unknown. This study proposes to examine a novel approach for increasing PE law compliance by testing a PE audit and feedback tool (adapted from a tool used by the New York City Department of Education) in Oakland, California schools to determine the effectiveness, adaptability, and scalability of this potential cost-effective approach for increasing PE law compliance and student physical activity.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-08-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-08-16
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-22
• Study Start: 2023-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-06-30
• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-07
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-10
• Study Completion: 2026-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 8

Inclusion Criteria

• Elementary school in the Oakland Unified School District
• >50% of students in the school qualify for free or reduced-price meals
• >80% of students non-white

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Exclusion Criteria

• Having a PE program known by the PE Director to be well-established and/or meet/exceed district expectations for PE

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
PE Audit and Feedback Intervention	PE Audit and Feedback Tool	Schools in this arm will receive a PE audit and feedback tool delivered by the school district's teacher on special assignment for PE, which will consist of an audit of the school's existing PE program; Feedback on ways to improve the PE program; and technical assistance to help improve the PE program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Adoption	20-30 minutes	To determine critical adoption issues, we will conduct 20-30 minute interviews with all observed teachers teaching PE and school principals after SOFIT observations are complete in the Fall of 2023. We will code all interview transcripts using a thematic analysis approach, using predefined themes based on the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) literature (e.g. commitment of principals and teachers; communication about the tool; impediments/facilitators to adoption, structural embedding of the tool into practice and policy, etc.).
Implementation	20-30 minutes	To determine critical implementation issues, we will conduct 20-30 minute interviews with all observed teachers teaching PE and school principals after SOFIT observations are complete in the Fall of 2023. We will code all interview transcripts using a thematic analysis approach, using predefined themes based on the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) literature (e.g. commitment of principals and teachers; communication about the tool; impediments/facilitators to implementation, structural embedding of the tool into practice and policy, etc.).
Maintenance	20-30 minutes	To determine critical maintenance issues, we will conduct 20-30 minute interviews with all observed teachers teaching PE and school principals after SOFIT observations are complete in the Fall of 2023. We will code all interview transcripts using a thematic analysis approach, using predefined themes based on the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) literature (e.g. commitment of principals and teachers; communication about the tool; impediments/facilitators to maintenance, structural embedding of the tool into practice and policy, etc.).
Effectiveness	Baseline (12 weeks); Follow-up (12 weeks)	We will examine differences in changes between intervention and control schools from baseline in Fall 2020 to follow-up in Fall 2023 in 1) continuous estimated minutes of PE/week; and 2) binary meeting the California PE minute mandate of 200 minutes of PE/10 days for elementary students. We will calculate the estimated minutes of PE class-time students receive per week using the number of PE minutes scheduled per week, the proportion of scheduled PE classes that did not occur on days we randomly arrived to observe class, and actual observed PE class length from System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time (SOFIT) observations. Differences in changes in calculated minutes of PE/week and meeting the California PE minute mandate will be determined using adjusted linear and logistic mixed effects models with a time by group interaction term and random effects on teachers nested within school.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UC Berkeley; 🇺🇸 Berkeley, California, United States