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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Inactivity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Girls Can...Move!

• Registration Number: NCT05241808
• Lead Sponsor: Deirdre Dlugonski

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-12-02
• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-02-04
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-16
• Primary Completion: 2022-04-26
• Study Completion: 2022-04-26
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-23
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 17

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 & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental	Girls Can...Move!	Experimental group participants will receive the 8-week Girls Can...Move! program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in physical literacy	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)	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.
Feasibility of the Girls Can...Move! intervention	pre-intervention (week 0)	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.
Change in physical activity	pre-intervention immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)	Participants will wear an Actigraph accelerometer to measure change in physical activity from pre- to post- intervention for the experimental compared to control group.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in peer social support	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)	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.
Change in parental social support	pre-intervention (week 0) and immediately following 8-week intervention period (week 9)	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Kentucky; 🇺🇸 Lexington, Kentucky, United States