Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program

NCT ID: NCT00949637

Last Updated: 2017-03-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 76 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2008-05-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to prevent obesity by improving the environmental characteristics of Girl Scouts troop meetings.

Detailed Description

Girls and parents affiliated with Girl Scouts Juniors programs completed a questionnaire prior to the beginning of an intervention program, and again after the program. Children responded to previously validated questionnaire items assessing demographics, parent-child connectedness, parent-child physical activity, screen time usage, family meal-time environment, consumption of fruits and vegetables, soda, and fast food. Parents completed a similar questionnaire, assessing demographics, parent-child connectedness, parent-child physical activity, family mealtime environment, parenting style and parenting practices. Children were also assessed on height and weight to characterize their risk for overweight status. Questionnaires and environmental observations were used to assess the effectiveness of an intervention designed to improve the family meal-time environment at home, as well as helping to assess the relationships between parental factors and family health-related behavior.

Conditions

Obesity

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Scouting curricular implementation

Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.

Standard-care attentional control

Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard-care attentional control

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.

Interventions

Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program

Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Standard-care attentional control

Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

SNAP; Control

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Girls had to be attending members of Girl Scouts in one of our included troops.
• The troop needed to be a registered Girl Scouts Juniors troop, consisting of girls primarily in the 4th and 5th grades.
• To be officially registered, the troop leaders were required to complete Girl Scout leader training and pass a criminal background check.
• To be included, the troops also needed to meet at least twice per month, have meeting facilities capable of allowing physical activity and food preparation.
• Also, troops needed to have initial agreement of leaders and parents for the troop to participate in a research study.

Exclusion Criteria

• An inability to speak or read English.
• Troops not primarily composed of Girl Scouts Juniors, not regularly meeting during the study period, or not having leader and parental consensus approval for troop participation.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The Sunflower Foundation

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Kansas State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Richard R. Rosenkranz

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Richard R. Rosenkranz, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Kansas State University

Locations

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas, United States

Countries

United States

References

Rosenkranz RR, Behrens TK, Dzewaltowski DA. A group-randomized controlled trial for health promotion in Girl Scouts: healthier troops in a SNAP (Scouting Nutrition & Activity Program). BMC Public Health. 2010 Feb 19;10:81. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-81.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 20170502 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

SF SNAP y1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id