Science Engagement to Empower Disadvantaged adoleScents (SEEDS Project)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 720
- 试验地点
- 7
- 主要终点
- Physical activity
研究概览
简要总结
SEEDS is a multicenter 24-month citizen science (CS) cluster randomized controlled study, with interventions conducted in four European countries acting as pilot sites: 1) Greece, 2) The Netherlands, 3) Spain and 4) The United Kingdom. This project will merge CS and traditional approaches and will target high schools located in deprived neighborhoods.
The methodology, that combines CS and traditional science, could build effective cooperation between science and society to empower adolescents from low-income environments to adopt healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity, increase their interest in science and improve their critical thinking.
详细描述
SEEDS is a multicenter 24-month citizen science (CS) cluster randomized controlled study, with interventions conducted in four European countries acting as pilot sites: 1) Greece, 2) The Netherlands, 3) Spain and 4) The United Kingdom. This project will merge CS and traditional approaches and will target high schools located in deprived neighborhoods.
The methodology, that combines CS and traditional science, could build effective cooperation between science and society to empower adolescents from low-income environments to adopt healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity, increase their interest in science and improve their critical thinking.
The aim is to engage teenagers on this citizen science project to collaborate in all phases of the study: problem definition, data collection, analyses and dissemination. This will empower them to change habits, thereby contributing to behavioural changes. This cluster-randomized control trial involves intervention and control high-schools from deprived areas in the Netherlands, England, Greece and Spain. Teenagers with leadership skills from intervention schools (called ambassadors) and stakeholders will participate in focus groups to gain insights on the barriers and facilitators for healthy lifestyles of teenagers, and how science could help address these. Building on the information of the focus groups, ambassadors, stakeholders and other peers will participate in a collaborative competition event where the SEEDS intervention(s) will be designed. The intervention(s) will be implemented at intervention high-schools. Outcomes in health behaviours and science literacy will be assessed by validated questionnaires at the start and end of the project.
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
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •per high schools:
- •High schools located in deprived areas. Deprived areas will be selected according to what is considered an area with a low socioeconomic level according to each country.
- •Informed consent must be signed by the responsible of each high-school.
排除标准
- •per high schools:
- •The non-completion of one of the inclusion criteria.
- •Inclusion Criteria per participants:
- •Adolescents aged 13- to 15-years at baseline who attended one of the participating high schools, previously randomized.
- •Informed consent must be signed by their parents/legal guardians and by each adolescent.
- •Exclusion Criteria per participants:
- •The non-completion of one of the inclusion criteria.
结局指标
主要结局
Physical activity
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Change in physical activity assessed by validated questionnaire HBSC and Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C). HBSC: days a week physically active for a total of at least 60 minutes, frequency of exercise in free time that participants get out of breath or sweat and means of transport to go to school. PAQ-C: 7-day recall questionnaire that assesses participation in different physical activities, as well as activity during Physical Education, lunch break, recess, after school, in the evenings and at weekends. Each of the 9 questionnaire items is scored between 1 (low) and 5 (high physical activity), and a mean score of all items constitutes the overall PAQ score.
Snacking choices
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Change in healthy snacking choices (inside and outside school). This outcome will be assessed by validated questionnaires HBSC (times per week consume healthy and unhealthy snacking choices) and Beverage Frequency Questionnaire ( 7-day food record of beverages). Additionally, questions for assessing the frequency of consumption (times per week and time frame of the day) of each type of snack (chocolates, fruit and vegs, cakes or cookies and chocolates and sweets).
Sedentary time
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Change in prolonged sedentary time. This outcome will be assessed by validated questionnaire HBSC (hours/day spend watching television/ playing computer games/ on computer for purposes other than playing).
Youth interest in life science
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Changes in life science interest. This outcome will be measure by STEM interest survey.
Science capital perception and interest
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Changes in science capital.This outcome will be measure by Science Capital Survey, developed by Archer et al. (2015): The selection of questions includes 4 components of the total Science Capital Survey: Future science job affinity (aspirations), utility of science qualifications, valuing science and scientists, and self-efficacy in science.
Youth interest in science technology engineering and math (STEM) career.
时间窗: Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month)
Changes in STEM career. This outcome will be measure by Attitude towards STEM questionnaire.
次要结局
- Health-related behaviour(Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month))
- Determinants of each of the behaviours(Change from Baseline to end-of-study (6-month))
研究者
Rosa Sola
Principal Investigator
University Rovira i Virgili