Participatory Research to Promote Physical Activity

NCT ID: NCT03135223

Last Updated: 2017-05-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 196 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-09-01
• Study Completion Date: 2015-06-30

Brief Summary

Secondary schoolgirls have the most unhealthy profile regarding physical activity and sedentary behaviour of all age groups. Since both behaviours independently contribute to various health outcomes, an effective intervention to promote physical activity and to reduce sedentary behaviour needs to be developed.

Many interventions fail to induce changes in health behaviour, as they often use a top-down approach with limited input from the end-users (i.e. the secondary schoolgirls) of the intervention programmes. This project uses a participatory health research approach by actively involving the girls in the entire research process. A co-creation group was set up per intervention school (n=3), including girls and a researcher which co-created a school-specific intervention, tailored to the needs and interests of those girls.

The effect of participatory process were evaluated via a clustered randomized controlled trial using an intervention and control condition and a pre- and post-test design. Effects on physical activity and related determinants (e.g. self-efficacy, attitude, etcetera) were evaluated. The hypothesis was that girls from the intervention condition would improve their physical activity levels and related determinants compared to no changes among girls from the control schools. The process was evaluated as well using focus group research and the hypothesis was that girls who participate in the co-creation groups would be positive about the process and will feel empowered.

Conditions

Health Behavior

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Intervention group

Co-created, school-based intervention to promote physical activity

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Co-created intervention to promote physical activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A working group of girls and researcher co-created a school-specific intervention to promote physical activity

Control group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Co-created intervention to promote physical activity

A working group of girls and researcher co-created a school-specific intervention to promote physical activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy, female pupils of secondary schools (aim: 10th grade) who volunteer to participate in the study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University Ghent

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Vakgroepsport

Prof. Greet Cardon

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

FWO13/PDO/191

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id