This proposal will address the existent gaps in the literature by identifying barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity in inner-city minority elementary schoolchildren with asthma, more that half of whom are also overweight; developing and refining a school-based intervention in partnership with the community to improve physical activity; and conducting a pilot randomized controlled trial of the intervention to determine feasibility and obtain preliminary data for a future large-scale trial.
Four schools have been recruited for pilot wait-listed cluster randomized clinical trial to determine feasibility for a large-scaled trial. Community-based participatory research approach was utilized to develop an intervention that will be delivered to two schools. Two control schools will receive intervention during year 2 of the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
208
School- and community-based intervention includes several components: a classroom-based physical activity program, asthma awareness week at the school, asthma education for parents and students enrolled in the study, collaboration with child's physician to ensure proper medical treatment of child's asthma asthma education for school personnel
Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Bronx, New York, United States
change in physical activity levels
physical activity levels will be measured with accelerometers
Time frame: baseline, 6, 9, 12 months follow-up
change in Body Mass Index
BMI will be assessed by measuring height and weight of children
Time frame: baseline, 6, 9 and 12 months
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