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A Skills-based RCT for Physical Activity Using Peer Mentors

NCT02329262 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 571

Last updated 2026-05-12

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Summary

This approach will train peer mentors to deliver a culturally appropriate intervention and provide social support that is critical for facilitating and sustaining health behavior change. The objective is to compare the efficacy of an innovative healthy lifestyle skills mentoring program (Mentored Planning to be Active \[MBA\]) to a teacher led program (PBA) for increasing physical activity in Appalachian high school teens. MBA emphasizes the social determinants of health by using a social networking approach that trains peer mentors to support targeted teens

Conditions

  • Health Behavior
  • Obesity
  • Motor Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mentoring to be Active with Accelerometers

Trained high school mentors will deliver a 10 session curriculum targeting physical activity to younger teens.

BEHAVIORAL

Planning to be Active with Accelerometers

Health education teachers will deliver the 10 session curriculum targeting physical activity to high school students enrolled in health courses.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ohio State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laureen H Smith, PhD · OSU College of Nursing

  • Rick L Petosa, PhD · Ohio State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2018-11-01
Completion
2018-11-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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