NCT05977959

Optimizing the Impact of the Healthy School Recognized Campus Program on Youth's CVD Risk Factors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 159 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas A&M University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Healthy School Recognized Campus is a Texas A\&M AgriLife Extension initiative that supports the delivery of school-based physical activity and nutrition programs for diverse youth across Texas. The purpose of this study is to improve the delivery of these programs and optimize the effect they have on youth's cardiovascular risk factors.

Detailed description

The investigators will conduct a group randomized factorial trial using the Multiphase Optimization STrategy (MOST) framework to evaluate the impact (i.e., implementation and effectiveness) of three implementation strategies on program implementation and youth's cardiovascular disease risk. HSRC is a Texas A\&M AgriLife Extension initiative that supports the delivery of school-based physical activity and nutrition programs. Elementary schools in North and East Texas (n=16) of similar socio-economic status will be randomized at baseline to receive either 3, 2, 1, or no strategies to support HSRC program implementation. All schools will participate in HSRC during the full school year. The investigators hypothesize that one strategy will result in significantly greater HSRC implementation and effectiveness than the other strategies tested.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Physical Activity
• Nutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mentoring Program	Schools in this group will participate in meetings and discussion boards and receive newsletters to help with program implementation.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Resources	Schools in this group will receive extra resources such as program incentives to aid in program implementation.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Engagement	Schools in this group will participate in program contests to aid program implementation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-13
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2023-08-07
• Last updated: 2025-09-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States