A Site-Randomized Controlled Trial for Health Promotion in Girl Scouts: Healthier Troops in a SNAP
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 76
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Body mass index percentile ranking
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to prevent obesity by improving the environmental characteristics of Girl Scouts troop meetings.
详细描述
Girls and parents affiliated with Girl Scouts Juniors programs completed a questionnaire prior to the beginning of an intervention program, and again after the program. Children responded to previously validated questionnaire items assessing demographics, parent-child connectedness, parent-child physical activity, screen time usage, family meal-time environment, consumption of fruits and vegetables, soda, and fast food. Parents completed a similar questionnaire, assessing demographics, parent-child connectedness, parent-child physical activity, family mealtime environment, parenting style and parenting practices. Children were also assessed on height and weight to characterize their risk for overweight status. Questionnaires and environmental observations were used to assess the effectiveness of an intervention designed to improve the family meal-time environment at home, as well as helping to assess the relationships between parental factors and family health-related behavior.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 12 Years（Child）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Girls had to be attending members of Girl Scouts in one of our included troops.
- •The troop needed to be a registered Girl Scouts Juniors troop, consisting of girls primarily in the 4th and 5th grades.
- •To be officially registered, the troop leaders were required to complete Girl Scout leader training and pass a criminal background check.
- •To be included, the troops also needed to meet at least twice per month, have meeting facilities capable of allowing physical activity and food preparation.
- •Also, troops needed to have initial agreement of leaders and parents for the troop to participate in a research study.
排除标准
- •An inability to speak or read English.
- •Troops not primarily composed of Girl Scouts Juniors, not regularly meeting during the study period, or not having leader and parental consensus approval for troop participation.
研究组 & 干预措施
Scouting curricular implementation
Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.
干预措施: Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program (Behavioral)
Standard-care attentional control
Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.
干预措施: Standard-care attentional control (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Body mass index percentile ranking
时间窗: 5 months
次要结局
- Troop environmental encouragement and opportunities for healthful eating and physical activity(continuous)
- Obesity-related behaviors(5 months)
研究者
Richard R. Rosenkranz
Assistant Professor
Kansas State University