Evaluation of CHAM JAM Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Students

NCT ID: NCT00556569

Last Updated: 2018-02-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 10098 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-12-31
• Study Completion Date: 2012-06-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the "Moving Smart" program, a daily 10-minute classroom-based exercise program, increases physical activity levels during the school day in Bronx elementary school students.

Detailed Description

Background: Medical and national public health authorities recommend daily school physical education for all ages due to well-known health benefits of physical activity. Nevertheless, daily physical education among elementary and secondary school students is not common in United States' (US) schools. Moreover, some of the schools in many US cities, such as the Bronx, do not even have gymnasiums or physical education teachers.

Objective: We propose to implement and test the effectiveness and feasibility of the "Moving Smart" (MS) program, a daily, 10-minute classroom-based physical activity program led by teachers that integrate academic objectives with physical activity, on increasing physical activity (PA) levels during the school day in Bronx elementary school students.

Design/ Methods: A cluster-randomized, wait-listed control trial of four Bronx elementary schools with one-year follow-up longitudinal study. Students in two intervention schools will receive the MS 3-times daily, for 10-minutes each time, in addition to regular physical education classes. Two wait-listed control schools will receive their regular physical education classes only. Subjects in the wait-listed control group will be offered the MS after the program is withdrawn from the intervention group at the end of the first year of study. A pedometer, an objective measure of PA in children, will be used to determine mean number of steps each student takes during school hours for 5 consecutive days at baseline, and every 3-months during the 2-year study period. For longitudinal follow-up, we will collect data from intervention group students and teachers on PA levels every 3-months for one-year after the intervention cessation. We will also collect yearly BMIs as a measure of overweight status. Descriptive statistics will be used to portray baseline characteristics of each group based on school, district, region, and NYC-wide data. The impact of the intervention on PA will be measured by comparing intervention and control schools using pedometer measurements as the primary dependent variable and students as the unit of analysis. We will collect fidelity measures by randomly selecting classes from the intervention schools and directly observing the level of PA present. We will determine the extent to which the MS becomes a part of the routine school policy by following the students and teachers from the intervention schools for 1-year after the intervention cessation.

Conditions

Physical Activity; Obesity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

2 Intervention schools are cluster randomized to receive CHAM JAM (previously known as the Moving Smart Program) in Year 1

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

CHAM JAM

Intervention Type: OTHER

CHAM JAM (previously known as Moving Smart" (MS) program) is a daily, 10-minute classroom-based physical activity program led by teachers that integrates academic objectives with physical activity

Wait-Listed Control

2 Wait-Listed Control Schools will receive CHAM JAM (previously known as the Moving Smart Program) in Year 2 of the study

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

CHAM JAM

CHAM JAM (previously known as Moving Smart" (MS) program) is a daily, 10-minute classroom-based physical activity program led by teachers that integrates academic objectives with physical activity

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Moving Smart Program; exercise program

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Elementary school students in K-3 grade in the Bronx, New York

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to participate in basic exercise program
• Students whose parents signed the opt-out letter

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Montefiore Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Philip O. Ozuah

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Philip O Ozuah, M.D., Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Locations

4 Elementary Schools

The Bronx, New York, United States

Countries

United States

References

Reznik M, Wylie-Rosett J, Kim M, Ozuah PO. A classroom-based physical activity intervention for urban kindergarten and first-grade students: a feasibility study. Child Obes. 2015 Jun;11(3):314-24. doi: 10.1089/chi.2014.0090. Epub 2015 Mar 6.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 25747719 (View on PubMed)

Reznik M, Wylie-Rosett J, Kim M, Ozuah PO. Physical activity during school in urban minority kindergarten and first-grade students. Pediatrics. 2013 Jan;131(1):e81-7. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1685. Epub 2012 Dec 3.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 23209101 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

RC1HD063607

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

07-08-253

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id