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YES! We Can PLAY: A Physical Activity and Nutrition After-School Program for Middle School Students

NCT04132869 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 298

Last updated 2023-01-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

YES! We can PLAY: A Physical Activity and Nutrition After-School Program for Middle School Students, is a collaborative partnership between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham City Schools District to decrease health disparities in obesity and obesity-related diseases by increasing physical activity levels and healthy eating behavior among Birmingham youth. Through the after-school program in which children choose from a menu of sports programming, the proposed intervention will increase physical literacy of the students through education related to both physical activity and nutrition as well as social-emotional learning which will increase students' ability to integrate the information and activities of the program into their lives moving forward.

Conditions

  • Child Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sports Readiness Intervention

Sixth graders will participate in a 6 month after-school program in which each daily session will last 90 minutes, 60 minutes of which will be moderate to vigorous physical activity. Two sports tracks will be offered during each 8-week season, and children will choose which they prefer. Coaches will be trained through a one day capacity building session and will receive online training throughout the program. Coaches will integrate sports readiness/physical activity programming, nutrition and healthy eating, and social emotional learning into the program with a focus on habit formation. A text-based platform will be utilized to encourage habits learned in the active portion of the program during June and July as well as on weekends during the intervention. Parents will be sent fliers weekly summarizing concepts addressed, and will be invited to cooking classes to watch students compete.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Birmingham City School System

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lori B Bateman, PhD · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-13
Primary Completion
2023-01-30
Completion
2023-01-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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