The Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program

NCT ID: NCT01820377

Last Updated: 2016-09-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 246 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2016-06-30

Brief Summary

Building on the successes of a communal, relationship based approach to Aboriginal youth mentoring in an after school physical activity program (AYMP), the investigators are evaluating a peer-led approach for diabetes prevention.

Detailed Description

Building on the successes of a communal, relationship based approach to Aboriginal youth mentoring in an after school physical activity program (AYMP), the investigators are evaluating a peer-led approach for diabetes prevention. High school students volunteer as mentors, and develop an after-school program that they then deliver to children in grade 4. The mentors meet twice a week. The first day, they develop an activity plan and decide roles and responsibilities to ensure successful delivery of each activity. The second day, they deliver the program to the grade 4s, which incorporates a healthy snack, 45-minutes of physical activity, and educational games/activities. Our primary goal is to determine the health benefits of AYMP; guided by our youth mentors and community advisors, the investigators will also develop a number of research questions that will help us to better understand the social, emotional, physical and spiritual outcomes of the peer-led mentor program. To answer these questions, the investigators will train community members in both qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative outcomes of this study include physical activity, waist circumference, obesity rates, and self-esteem. Qualitative methods may include photovoice and focus group interviews. All of these will be used to assess the social determinants of health and contextual features of the program.

Conditions

Type 2 Diabetes; Obesity

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program

High school students volunteer as mentors, and develop an after-school program that they then deliver to children in grade 4. The mentors meet twice a week. The first day, they develop an activity plan and decide roles and responsibilities to ensure successful delivery of each activity. The second day, they deliver the program to the grade 4 students, which incorporates a healthy snack, 45-minutes of physical activity, and educational games/activities. Grade 4s act as the intervention group.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

High school students volunteer as mentors, and develop an after-school program that they then deliver to children in grade 4. The mentors meet twice a week. The first day, they develop an activity plan and decide roles and responsibilities to ensure successful delivery of each activity. The second day, they deliver the program to the grade 4s, which incorporates a healthy snack, 45-minutes of physical activity, and educational games/activities. Grade 4s are our intervention group

Control Group

This group acts as a control, and are not apart of the Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program

High school students volunteer as mentors, and develop an after-school program that they then deliver to children in grade 4. The mentors meet twice a week. The first day, they develop an activity plan and decide roles and responsibilities to ensure successful delivery of each activity. The second day, they deliver the program to the grade 4s, which incorporates a healthy snack, 45-minutes of physical activity, and educational games/activities. Grade 4s are our intervention group

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

AYMP

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Grade 4 students. We chose to intervene with youth in grade 4 for four primary reasons: (1) the large majority of youth in grade 4 are in tanner stage 1 and will not experience puberty-related weight gain during the school year; (2) previous experience by our group revealed that attendance throughout the school year is higher in students in grade 4 relative to students in grade 5 or 6; (3) students in grade 4 are old enough to perform low organized games included in the intervention; and (4) retention rates in the intervention are greater than students in grades 5 and 6.

Exclusion Criteria

• While all students will be invited to participate in the intervention, for measurement purposes, we will exclude data from those students who may not respond to the intervention or would be unable to participate in the physical activity aspects of the component. This includes children with: (1) musculoskeletal injuries that limit physical activities; (2) treatment for chronic conditions that would elicit weight gain or limit participation in physical activity (insulin, corticosteroids, blood pressure medications); (3) poor attendance (<60% of school days) in the first semester; (4) children whose parents are unwilling to provide consent. Note: the intervention will be offered to youth with chronic conditions, however their data will not be included in the final analysis, due to confounding effects of medications.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 11 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Manitoba Institute of Child Health

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

The Lawson Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Manitoba

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jon McGavock

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Jonathan M McGavock, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Manitoba, Manitoba Institute of Child Health

Joannie Halas, PhD.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Manitoba

Locations

Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Eskicioglu P, Halas J, Senechal M, Wood L, McKay E, Villeneuve S, Shen GX, Dean H, McGavock JM. Peer mentoring for type 2 diabetes prevention in first nations children. Pediatrics. 2014 Jun;133(6):e1624-31. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-2621. Epub 2014 May 12.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 24819579 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

H2008:060

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id