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Baylor College of Medicine |
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Information provided by: | Baylor College of Medicine |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00758615 |
Walking to school is one of the objectives for children and adolescents in Healthy People 2010 and in previous studies was associated with higher levels of overall physical activity, which has been shown to decrease obesity.
Therefore, more children walking to school should result in increased physical activity and presumably reduce obesity. However, increasing child pedestrian activity could increase the risk of child pedestrian injuries.
Walking with an adult who provides instruction in pedestrian skills and monitors the child's actual behavior may be the most important component of a successful intervention. Walking with an adult reduced child pedestrian injury risk by almost 70%. A walking school bus (WSB) addresses safety concerns by providing a period of physical activity supervised by several responsible adults and teaching opportunities around pedestrian safety skills on the way to and from school. Children may join the WSB at various points along the set route. Despite the growing popularity of WSB programs in the United States, randomized, controlled-studies are lacking that examine the impact on children's safety, physical activity, and health. We seek to help fill this gap in the literature by piloting a WSB program in elementary schools in the Houston Independent School District to test feasibility. We hypothesize that a WSB program will: (1) increase the number of students walking to school and decrease the number of students driven to school by car, (2) increase students' pedestrian safety behaviors (3) increase students' physical activity, and (4) decrease students' excess weight gain.
Condition | Intervention |
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Obesity Physical Activity Pedestrian Safety Injury Prevention |
Behavioral: Walking School Bus |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Pilot and Feasibility Evaluation of a Walking School Bus Program Intervention for Elementary School Students |
Estimated Enrollment: | 120 |
Study Start Date: | September 2008 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | June 2009 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | June 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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I: Experimental
Walking School Bus Intervention
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Behavioral: Walking School Bus
Students are chaperoned to and from school by adults (study staff or parent volunteers) along set routes.
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C: No Intervention
Usual school procedures for student transportation to school
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 8 Years to 12 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Contact: Doris Uscanga, BFA | 713-798-0512 | uscanga@bcm.tmc.edu |
Contact: Jason A Mendoza, MD, MPH | 713-798-7055 | jason.mendoza@bcm.edu |
United States, Texas | |
Baylor College of Medicine | Recruiting |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 | |
Contact: Uscanga uscanga@bcm.tmc.edu | |
Contact: Mendoza jason.mendoza@bcm.edu | |
Principal Investigator: Jason A Mendoza, MD, MPH | |
Sub-Investigator: Tom Baranowski, PhD | |
Sub-Investigator: Theresa Nicklas, DrPH | |
Sub-Investigator: Marcus Hanfling, MD |
Principal Investigator: | Jason A Mendoza, MD, MPH | Baylor College of Medicine |
Responsible Party: | Baylor College of Medicine ( Jason A Mendoza, MD, MPH; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 1 R21 CA133418-01, 163773 |
Study First Received: | September 22, 2008 |
Last Updated: | September 23, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00758615 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Obesity Physical activity Injury Prevention Pedestrian safety |
Self efficacy School Walking School Bus Safe Routes to School |
Body Weight Signs and Symptoms Obesity |
Nutrition Disorders Overweight Overnutrition |
Body Weight Signs and Symptoms Obesity |
Nutrition Disorders Overweight Overnutrition |