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Pilot Evaluation of a Walking School Bus Program

NCT ID: NCT00758615

Last Updated: 2013-12-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

149 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-09-30

Study Completion Date

2009-06-30

Brief Summary

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Walking to school is one of the objectives for children and adolescents in Healthy People 2010 and in previous studies was associated with higher levels of overall physical activity, which has been shown to decrease obesity. Therefore, more children walking to school should result in increased physical activity and presumably reduce obesity. However, increasing child pedestrian activity could increase the risk of child pedestrian injuries. Walking with an adult who provides instruction in pedestrian skills and monitors the child's actual behavior may be the most important component of a successful intervention. Walking with an adult reduced child pedestrian injury risk by almost 70%. A walking school bus (WSB) addresses safety concerns by providing a period of physical activity supervised by several responsible adults and teaching opportunities around pedestrian safety skills on the way to and from school. Children may join the WSB at various points along the set route. Despite the growing popularity of WSB programs in the United States, randomized, controlled-studies are lacking that examine the impact on children's safety, physical activity, and health. We seek to help fill this gap in the literature by piloting a WSB program in elementary schools in the Houston Independent School District to test feasibility. We hypothesize that a WSB program will: (1) increase the number of students walking to school and decrease the number of students driven to school by car, (2) increase students' pedestrian safety behaviors (3) increase students' physical activity, and (4) decrease students' excess weight gain.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Obesity Physical Activity Pedestrian Safety Injury Prevention

Keywords

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Obesity Physical activity Injury Prevention Pedestrian safety Self efficacy School Walking School Bus Safe Routes to School

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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I

Walking School Bus Intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Walking School Bus

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Students are chaperoned to and from school by adults (study staff or parent volunteers) along set routes.

C

Usual school procedures for student transportation to school

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Walking School Bus

Students are chaperoned to and from school by adults (study staff or parent volunteers) along set routes.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Safe Routes to School

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 4th grade student at a study school in the Houston Independent School District
* Must be physically able to walk to and from school

Exclusion Criteria

* Any condition that would prevent the student from walking to or from school
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Seattle Children's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jason Mendoza

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jason A Mendoza, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Seattle Children's Hospital

Locations

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Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Mendoza JA, Watson K, Baranowski T, Nicklas TA, Uscanga DK, Hanfling MJ. The walking school bus and children's physical activity: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2011 Sep;128(3):e537-44. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-3486. Epub 2011 Aug 22.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 21859920 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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163773

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

1R21CA133418-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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