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Girls on the Move Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Middle School Girls

A study testing Physical activity intervention in people with Physical Activity, run by Michigan State University at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this school-based trial is to test the efficacy of an intervention to increase moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among middle school girls. The 17-week "Girls on the Move" (GOTM) intervention has 3 components. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 9 to 14 years, women onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Physical Activity
What is being tested?
Physical activity intervention
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
1,543 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Sep 2011to May 2016
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 9 to 14 years
  • Women only
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Child

Who may be able to join

  • 5th- 6th- and 7th-grade girls (ages 9-14; 8th-graders if needed in middle schools having only 7th- and 8th- grades)
  • Available and willing to participate in PA Club 3 days/wk. for 17wks.
  • Available for follow-up (9 mos. after intervention ends)
  • Agree to random assignment
  • Able to read, understand, and speak English.

Who cannot join

  • Involved in or planning to be involved in school or community sports or other organized PAs, such as dance lessons, that involve MVPA and require participation 3 or more days/wk. after school during every season of the school year
  • A health condition precluding safe MVPA.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Michigan State University

    East Lansing, Michigan, 48824

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About this study

Official title: Girls on the Move Intervention

The purpose of this school-based trial is to test the efficacy of an intervention to increase moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among middle school girls. The 17-week "Girls on the Move" (GOTM) intervention has 3 components. Two individual-level components occurring during school hours include: (1) two face-to-face motivational, individually tailored counseling sessions with a school nurse, and (2) an interactive Internet-based session during which each girl receives motivational, individually tailored feedback messages (at 9 weeks). A group-level component, 90-minute Physical Activity (PA) Club provides an important venue after school that includes activities to assist girls in establishing a behavioral pattern of MVPA. The control condition will complete data collection activities and receive their usual school offerings.

The investigators hypothesize that immediately post-intervention, minutes of MVPA will be greater by 16 min./wk. in the intervention than control group; At 9 months post-intervention follow-up, minutes of MVPA will be greater in the intervention than control group; and immediately post-intervention, cardiovascular (CV) fitness will be higher and body mass index (BMI) and percent body fat will be lower in the intervention than control group.

Read the detailed description

Our 17-week "Girls on the Move" (GOTM) intervention for middle school girls applies the Health Promotion Model (HPM) and Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and has 3 components. Two individual-level components occurring during school hours include: (1) two face-to-face motivational, individually tailored counseling sessions with a school nurse (occurring at baseline and near 17 wks.), and (2) an interactive Internet-based session during which each girl receives motivational, individually tailored feedback messages (at 9 wks.). A group-level component, 90-min. PA Club, led by PA instructors (e.g., individuals from community; teachers, including physical education (PE); and sports team coaches) provides an important venue after school that includes MVPAs (requested by girls in pilot) to assist girls in establishing a behavioral pattern of MVPA. The control condition will complete data collection activities and receive their usual school offerings.

The purpose of this school-based group randomized trial (GRT) is to evaluate the efficacy of the comprehensive GOTM intervention to increase middle school girls' min. of MVPA and improve cardiovascular (CV) fitness, body mass index (BMI), and percent body fat (% BF) immediately post-intervention (after 17 wks.) and MVPA at 9-mo. follow-up (F/U; 9 mos. after end of intervention). Secondary analyses will examine if MVPA is mediated by cognitive (e.g., perceived benefits of PA, barriers to PA, and PA self-efficacy; social support) and affective variables (e.g., enjoyment of and motivation for PA).

Based on demographics of the urban schools, we expect a low-SES, mixed-race, predominately African American, sample. Eight schools will be randomly assigned to the PA intervention (n = 4) or comparison condition (n = 4) in the fall of yrs. 2, 3, and 4 (total N = 8 X 3 = 24 different schools). Sixty-two girls meeting inclusion criteria based on answers to a screening tool will be recruited in each school during each of the three yrs.

The long-term goal is to increase MVPA as a means to address the high overweight and obesity prevalence among adolescent girls.

Being tested
Physical activity intervention
Keywords
exercise, adolescent, intervention, female, counseling
Medical subject headings
Motor Activity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Physical activity interventionBehavioural

    Receiving individual counseling with the school nurse, tailored feedback from computer program, and after-school physical activity club.

Study groups in NCT01503333
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
ControlNo interventionThe control condition will complete data collection activities and receive their usual school offerings.
Physical activity interventionExperimentalReceiving Physical activity intervention which includes individual counseling with the school nurse, tailored feedback from computer program, and after-school physical activity club.
Receives: Behavioral: Physical activity intervention

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Minutes of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) Post-intervention

    Minutes of MVPA were measured via ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometers worn on an elastic belt at the right hip for 7 consecutive days, including 5 weekdays and 2 weekend days at post-intervention. Monitors were set to start collecting and storing data in raw format beginning 5:00 A.M. on the day after they were distributed to girls each school. Data were re-integrated to 15-second epochs and processed using established intensity cut-points. One week after distribution, data collectors returned to each school to collect the accelerometers. The majority (1386 [post-intervention] of 1519 girls [baseline], 91.24%) provided at least 8 hours of data on 3 weekdays and 1 weekend day. An imputation approach based on all available data in hour blocks on all 7 days was implemented. Wear time was standardized to 14 hours/weekday (one hour before each school's actual start time; 7 hours during school; 6 hours after school) and 10 hours/weekend day (later awake time from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.).

    Measured: Minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per hour at post-intervention (after 17-week intervention)

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Cardiovascular Fitness (Aerobic Performance)

    Between group comparison measured by number of laps run in a progressive shuttle run test. CV fitness was assessed via estimation of maximal oxygen consumption.

    Measured: Cardiovascular fitness after 17-week intervention (post-intervention)

  2. Body Mass Index (BMI) Z-score

    To obtain BMI-z score, height and weight were assessed. Height was measured to nearest 0.1 cm using portable stadiometer.

    Weight was assessed to nearest 0.1 kg with foot-to-foot bioelectric impedance analysis scale. BMI was calculated and then converted into a percentile using age- and sex-specific reference values from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts to determine BMI-z score.

    Measured: Body mass index z-score at post-intervention (after 17-week intervention)

  3. Percent Body Fat

    Percent body fat estimated via a foot-to-foot body weight scale with bioelectrical impedance analysis capabilities.

    Measured: Percent body fat at post-intervention (immediately after 17-week intervention)

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted4 Jan 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2011
  3. Primary completionMay 2016
  4. Study completionMay 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
1,543 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01503333
Sponsor's protocol ID
1R01HL109101
Status last verified
Nov 2018
First submitted
23 Dec 2011
Last updated
21 Nov 2018
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Robbins LB, Pfeiffer KA, Vermeesch A, Resnicow K, You Z, An L, Wesolek SM. "Girls on the Move" intervention protocol for increasing physical activity among low-active underserved urban girls: a group randomized trial. BMC Public Health. 2013 May 15;13:474. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-474.

    PubMed 23672272
  • Ling J, Robbins LB, Resnicow K, Bakhoya M. Social support and peer norms scales for physical activity in adolescents. Am J Health Behav. 2014 Nov;38(6):881-9. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.38.6.10.

    PubMed 25207514
  • Vermeesch AL, Ling J, Voskuil VR, Bakhoya M, Wesolek SM, Bourne KA, Pfeiffer KA, Robbins LB. Biological and Sociocultural Differences in Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity Among Fifth- to Seventh-Grade Urban Girls. Nurs Res. 2015 Sep-Oct;64(5):342-50. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000113.

    PubMed 26325276
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Wesolek SM, Kazanis AS, Bourne KA, Resnicow K. Reliability and Validity of the Commitment to Physical Activity Scale for Adolescents. Am J Health Promot. 2017 Jul;31(4):343-352. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.150114-QUAN-665. Epub 2016 Nov 17.

    PubMed 26730556
  • Gammon C, Pfeiffer KA, Kazanis A, Ling J, Robbins LB. Cardiorespiratory fitness in urban adolescent girls: associations with race and pubertal status. J Sports Sci. 2017 Jan;35(1):29-34. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2016.1154594. Epub 2016 Mar 4.

    PubMed 26942487
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Toruner EK, Bourne KA, Pfeiffer KA. Examining reach, dose, and fidelity of the "Girls on the Move" after-school physical activity club: a process evaluation. BMC Public Health. 2016 Jul 30;16:671. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3329-x.

    PubMed 27473613
  • Bakhoya M, Ling J, Pfeiffer KA, Robbins LB. Evaluating Mailed Motivational, Individually Tailored Postcard Boosters for Promoting Girls' Postintervention Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity. Nurs Res. 2016 Sep-Oct;65(5):415-20. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000173.

    PubMed 27579509
  • Ling J, Robbins LB. Psychometric Evaluation of Three Psychosocial Measures Associated With Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls. J Sch Nurs. 2017 Oct;33(5):344-354. doi: 10.1177/1059840516685857. Epub 2016 Dec 29.

    PubMed 28030983
  • Voskuil VR, Pierce SJ, Robbins LB. Comparing the Psychometric Properties of Two Physical Activity Self-Efficacy Instruments in Urban, Adolescent Girls: Validity, Measurement Invariance, and Reliability. Front Psychol. 2017 Aug 3;8:1301. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01301. eCollection 2017.

    PubMed 28824487
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Resnicow K. Demographic differences in and correlates of perceived body image discrepancy among urban adolescent girls: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pediatr. 2017 Dec 6;17(1):201. doi: 10.1186/s12887-017-0952-3.

    PubMed 29207976
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Dalimonte-Merckling DM, Sharma DB, Bakhoya M, Pfeiffer KA. Sources and Types of Social Support for Physical Activity Perceived by Fifth to Eighth Grade Girls. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2018 Mar;50(2):172-180. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12369. Epub 2017 Dec 21.

    PubMed 29266689
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Wen F. Moderators in a physical activity intervention for adolescent girls. Pediatr Res. 2020 Nov;88(5):810-817. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-0818-5. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

    PubMed 32120378
  • Pfeiffer KA, Robbins LB, Ling J, Sharma DB, Dalimonte-Merckling DM, Voskuil VR, Kaciroti N, Resnicow K. Effects of the Girls on the Move randomized trial on adiposity and aerobic performance (secondary outcomes) in low-income adolescent girls. Pediatr Obes. 2019 Nov;14(11):e12559. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12559. Epub 2019 Jul 3.

    PubMed 31267695
  • Robbins LB, Ling J, Sharma DB, Dalimonte-Merckling DM, Voskuil VR, Resnicow K, Kaciroti N, Pfeiffer KA. Intervention Effects of "Girls on the Move" on Increasing Physical Activity: A Group Randomized Trial. Ann Behav Med. 2019 Mar 28;53(5):493-500. doi: 10.1093/abm/kay054.

    PubMed 29985968

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Physical activity intervention in people with Physical Activity, run by Michigan State University at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Nov 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 21 Nov 2018). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Minutes of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) Post-intervention (time frame: Minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per hour at post-intervention (after 17-week intervention)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01503333, which also lists 14 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 21 Nov 2018.

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