Turn up the HEAT - Healthy Eating and Activity Time in Summer Day Camps

NCT ID: NCT02161809

Last Updated: 2020-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1000 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2018-08-31

Brief Summary

The investigators long-term goal is to increase the number of Summer Day Camps (SDC) that meet the National Afterschool Association Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) Standards. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention designed to increase children's PA levels and improve the quality of lunches and snacks children consume in SDCs. The HEPA intervention is designed to target children, parents, staff, program leaders, and the SDC environment and uses a train-the-trainer model with SDC leaders to train their staff to deliver and integrate the intervention into routine practice. In the proposed study, the investigators will evaluate these HEPA strategies, using a 4-year randomized controlled trial with 20 SDCs. An important feature of the study will be the evaluation of maintenance of the intervention after the removal of research support (e.g., training, boosters) during the final year, as well as costs associated with implementation.

The investigators hypothesize that intervention SDCs will achieve significantly greater increases in HEPA, compared to control SDCs. The investigators expect the study to support the cost-effectiveness and maintenance of our strategies for promoting HEPA that will facilitate SDCs meeting newly-established HEPA standards for this setting.

Detailed Description

The investigators aim to:

Evaluate the impact of the HEPA interventions on: 1.) The proportion of children meeting the PA Standard (i.e., ≥60min MVPA/d) while attending summer day camp; 2.) The proportion of foods (e.g., fruit, vegetable, water) children and staff bring and consume at the summer day camp that meet the HE Standards; and 3/) Changes in children's age-sex specific BMI percentile from the start to end of summer

Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the HEPA intervention

Evaluate the maintenance of the HEPA intervention in summer day camps

Conditions

Childhood Obesity

Keywords

MVPA; Healthy Eating; children; childhood obesity

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Physical Activity Intervention

This arm (10 summer day camps) will receive the Physical Activity intervention the first year and both healthy eating and physical activity the second and thrid years.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) intervention aims to increase the quality of foods and beverages and physical activity opportunities in summer day camps. Through staff-level training, physical activity opportunities are modified to provide children with a substantial amount of meaningful physical activity. Through working with foods service providers, changes to the types of foods and beverages served will be made.

Healthy EAting Intervention

This arm (10 summer day camps) will receive the Healthy Eating intervention the first year and both healthy eating and physical activity the second and thrid years.

Group Type: OTHER

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) intervention aims to increase the quality of foods and beverages and physical activity opportunities in summer day camps. Through staff-level training, physical activity opportunities are modified to provide children with a substantial amount of meaningful physical activity. Through working with foods service providers, changes to the types of foods and beverages served will be made.

Interventions

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

The Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) intervention aims to increase the quality of foods and beverages and physical activity opportunities in summer day camps. Through staff-level training, physical activity opportunities are modified to provide children with a substantial amount of meaningful physical activity. Through working with foods service providers, changes to the types of foods and beverages served will be made.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

HEPA

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Summer Day camps will be eligible if:
• They operate for at least 10 weeks during the summer
• They do not have any primary focus such as sports, art, or tutoring (must be a general camp)
• Enrollment is at least 40 campers
• Operation hours are at least 8 hours.

Exclusion Criteria

• Children will be unable to wear an activity monitor if experience any physical and/or orthopedic impairment that limits the child's ability to participate in regular PA (e.g., wheelchair user)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 6 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of South Carolina

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Michael Beets

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Michael W Beets, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of South Carolina

Locations

University of South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

References

Weaver RG, Brazendale K, Chandler JL, Turner-McGrievy GM, Moore JB, Huberty JL, Ward DS, Beets MW. First year physical activity findings from turn up the HEAT (Healthy Eating and Activity Time) in summer day camps. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 28;12(3):e0173791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173791. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 28350830 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

Pro00032881

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id