Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeNCT03184779
The Effect of a Safety Video on Ski and Snowboard School Program Participants in Calgary, Alberta
A study testing Ski and Snowboard Safety Video in people with Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice and Risk Behavior, run by Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre.
Trial summary
The main objective of the study is to investigate if a video intervention can help increase knowledge, decrease risky behaviours on the hill, and reduce injury risk in students who participate in ski and snowboard school programs. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 6 to 15 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Risk Behavior, Injuries
- What is being tested?
- Ski and Snowboard Safety Video
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 2,348 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 26 Jul 2016to 30 Dec 2017
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
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 6 to 15 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Elementary and junior high school students (grades 1 to 9)
- Attends a school participating in a ski and snowboard school program hosted by a local ski area
Who cannot join
- High school students (grade 10 or above)
About this study
Official title: Ski and Snowboard School Programs: Assessing the Effect of a Safety Video Intervention on Knowledge, Behaviour and Injury Risk in Youth Skiing and Snowboarding
The main objective of the study is to investigate if a video intervention can help increase knowledge, decrease risky behaviours on the hill, and reduce injury risk in students who participate in ski and snowboard school programs. The study design is a cluster randomized controlled trial where participating schools will be randomized into either an intervention or control group. The intervention video will contain an injury prevention and safety promotion component for skiing or snowboarding. The control group will receive the standard orientation video that many schools typically provide for students prior to their ski/snowboard outings in previous years.
Read the detailed description
Skiing and snowboarding are two popular winter activities, and school sanctioned ski and snowboard programs hosted at local ski areas provide students the opportunity to discover and engage in new activities that can benefit their physical and mental well-being. However, these winter sports can be associated with a high risk of injury. Previous studies have found that the majority of injuries in snow sports are preventable and tend to be caused by poor decisions, actions and human error. As part of ski and snowboard school programs at WinSport's Canada Olympic Park (COP) in Calgary, Alberta, children receive an introduction to the sport including basic safety information. However, there is no consistent and comprehensive injury prevention component built into ski and snowboard school outing programs. For this research, the investigative team will implement and evaluate a video intervention with built-in injury prevention and safety promotion messages.
The study design is a cluster randomized controlled trial where participating schools will be randomized into either an intervention or control group. The intervention video is approximately 10 minutes in length and will include information on proper preparation, correct protective equipment use, and strategies for speed control and collision avoidance while skiing or snowboarding. The content and format of the intervention video was developed and informed by focus groups with parents, students, ski patrollers, and ski instructors to ensure optimal information uptake for viewers.The control group will receive the standard orientation video that many schools usually provide for students prior to their ski/snowboard outings.
The participants will be children between the ages of 6 to 15 years (grades 1 to 9) who participate in the ski and snowboard school programs at COP in Calgary, Alberta. The outcomes of interest that will be measured include knowledge uptake (through the use of pre- and post-test questionnaires delivered before and after watching the assigned video, and measuring differences in test scores before and after watching the video), behavioural changes (through the use of multiple observers who will collect data on unsafe behaviours and actions observed on the ski hill during two hour time intervals) and injury risk (through the use of nationally standardized ski patrol accident report forms that will be provided by the ski area and school program enrollment data to calculate injury rates).
- Conditions
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Risk Behavior, Injuries
- Being tested
- Ski and Snowboard Safety Video
- Keywords
- Ski, Snowboard, Snow Sport, Injury, Injury Prevention, Safety, Safety Video, Video Intervention, Youth, Children, Adolescent, Education, Knowledge
- Medical subject headings
- Behavior, Risk-Taking, Wounds and Injuries
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Ski and Snowboard Safety VideoOther
The ski and snowboard safety video (~10 minutes) includes information on preparation, correct protective equipment use (e.g. helmets), and strategies for speed control and collision avoidance. Focus groups were conducted among parents, students, ski patrol, and ski instructors to inform the content and format of the video. Feedback and suggestions from focus groups were utilized to ensure that the video optimized information uptake from children and adolescents who watch the video. The Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) model was embedded throughout the video to ensure evidence-informed pathways towards positive behaviour change.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Experimental | The intervention group will receive an educational video containing safety messages and an injury prevention component with the intent of reducing behaviours and actions on the hill than can potentially lead to injury. Receives: Other: Ski and Snowboard Safety Video |
| Control | No intervention | The control group will receive the usual procedures associated with school outings where students have the opportunity to watch the standard welcome video (~8 minutes) with information on how their day will go and how to use and put on safety equipment. The information given in the control procedure emphasizes preparation and how to use and put on equipment rather than safety messages oriented towards preventing injury and collisions. Students in the control group will watch the video prior to participating in the ski area school program. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Knowledge Uptake
Students will take a baseline safety knowledge assessment before watching the assigned video (pre-test) and take the same test immediately after watching the assigned video (post-test). The video viewing and the pre- and post-test completion will be moderated in a classroom by the teacher and a member of the research team. Questions about preparations, equipment and proper hill etiquette will be included in the knowledge assessment questionnaire.
At the start of the data collection session at the school, demographic information will be collected followed by the pre-test knowledge assessment for students to complete independently. After the pre-test knowledge assessment is completed and submitted, the students will then watch their assigned video. Immediately following the video, the students will independently complete the post-test knowledge assessment. A follow-up assessment test will be given to the participants approximately 1 month after watching the video.
Measured: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Secondary outcomes (2)
Risky Behaviours
Two research assistants (RAs) will observe the behaviour and characteristics of school participants during 2-hour intervals. Data will be collected on multiple unsafe behaviours, including: obstructing the run, stopping in an area where they are not visible, not yielding or giving right of way to skiers/snowboarders below, skiing/snowboarding too close to others, excessive speed, and jumping unsafely. RAs will select and agree on the next student who comes off the magic carpet to observe. When both observers are ready, they will give each other a cue and start observing the same student as they go down the hill. The RAs will stop observing and recording data on that student when the student reaches the bottom of the run. Once both RAs have recorded their data and confirm they are ready for the next student, they will choose the next student for observation. The number of students in the ski area during the time periods will also be recorded for denominator data as students per hour.
Measured: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Injury
Injury data will be obtained from the ski patrol Accident Report Forms (ARF). ARFs are completed by ski patrollers and contain information on the circumstances surrounding the injury, as well as the demographic characteristics of the injured skier or snowboarder. The forms also include information on whether those who were injured were participating in a school program at the time of injury. All personal identifying information will be removed from ARFs by ski patrol before being given to the research team for analysis. The name of the school and the date and time of the injury will be used to link ski patrol ARF injury data to the intervention or control schools. Denominator data will be the school program data; these data contain information on which schools were at the ski area for each day and the number of participants. This information is entered by school teachers and compiled by WinSport.
Measured: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted14 Jun 2017
- Study start26 Jul 2016
- Primary completion17 Mar 2017
- Study completion30 Dec 2017 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
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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
- Model description
- Schools will be stratified by grade and half of the schools in each stratum will be randomly assigned to the intervention and the other half will be assigned to the control group. Stratification by grade is necessary to ensure that groups are similar enough to ensure less biased comparisons. The research team will also ensure that schools going on their outing to COP on the same day are assigned to the same group. This is to ensure that research assistants can assume that all students observed on the hill for that particular day have the same intervention or control status since it may be challenging to distinguish which school group each student belongs to strictly through observation. That way the research team can accurately ascertain the intervention and control status of each student for the behavior observation component of the study.
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 2,348 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Brent E Hagel, PhD, Principal investigator, University of Calgary
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03184779
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- REB15-0749
- Status last verified
- Apr 2017
- First submitted
- 2 May 2017
- Last updated
- 5 Oct 2017
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 5 Oct 2017. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Ski and Snowboard School Programs: Assessing the Effect of a Safety Video Intervention on Knowledge, Behaviour and Injury Risk in Youth Skiing and Snowboarding
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03184779
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- REB15-0749
- Conditions
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Risk Behavior, Injuries
- Keywords
- Ski, Snowboard, Snow Sport, Injury, Injury Prevention, Safety, Safety Video, Video Intervention
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 2,348 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Sport Injury Prevention Research CentreUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 26 Jul 2016 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 17 Mar 2017 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Dec 2017 (estimated)
- First posted
- 14 Jun 2017 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The main objective of the study is to investigate if a video intervention can help increase knowledge, decrease risky behaviours on the hill, and reduce injury risk in students who participate in ski and snowboard school programs. The study design is a cluster randomized controlled trial where participating schools will be randomized into either an intervention or control group. The intervention video will contain an injury prevention and safety promotion component for skiing or snowboarding. The control group will receive the standard orientation video that many schools typically provide for students prior to their ski/snowboard outings in previous years.
Detailed description
Skiing and snowboarding are two popular winter activities, and school sanctioned ski and snowboard programs hosted at local ski areas provide students the opportunity to discover and engage in new activities that can benefit their physical and mental well-being. However, these winter sports can be associated with a high risk of injury. Previous studies have found that the majority of injuries in snow sports are preventable and tend to be caused by poor decisions, actions and human error. As part of ski and snowboard school programs at WinSport's Canada Olympic Park (COP) in Calgary, Alberta, children receive an introduction to the sport including basic safety information. However, there is no consistent and comprehensive injury prevention component built into ski and snowboard school outing programs. For this research, the investigative team will implement and evaluate a video intervention with built-in injury prevention and safety promotion messages.
The study design is a cluster randomized controlled trial where participating schools will be randomized into either an intervention or control group. The intervention video is approximately 10 minutes in length and will include information on proper preparation, correct protective equipment use, and strategies for speed control and collision avoidance while skiing or snowboarding. The content and format of the intervention video was developed and informed by focus groups with parents, students, ski patrollers, and ski instructors to ensure optimal information uptake for viewers.The control group will receive the standard orientation video that many schools usually provide for students prior to their ski/snowboard outings.
The participants will be children between the ages of 6 to 15 years (grades 1 to 9) who participate in the ski and snowboard school programs at COP in Calgary, Alberta. The outcomes of interest that will be measured include knowledge uptake (through the use of pre- and post-test questionnaires delivered before and after watching the assigned video, and measuring differences in test scores before and after watching the video), behavioural changes (through the use of multiple observers who will collect data on unsafe behaviours and actions observed on the ski hill during two hour time intervals) and injury risk (through the use of nationally standardized ski patrol accident report forms that will be provided by the ski area and school program enrollment data to calculate injury rates).
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Schools will be stratified by grade and half of the schools in each stratum will be randomly assigned to the intervention and the other half will be assigned to the control group. Stratification by grade is necessary to ensure that groups are similar enough to ensure less biased comparisons. The research team will also ensure that schools going on their outing to COP on the same day are assigned to the same group. This is to ensure that research assistants can assume that all students observed on the hill for that particular day have the same intervention or control status since it may be challenging to distinguish which school group each student belongs to strictly through observation. That way the research team can accurately ascertain the intervention and control status of each student for the behavior observation component of the study.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Experimental | Other: Ski and Snowboard Safety VideoThe intervention group will receive an educational video containing safety messages and an injury prevention component with the intent of reducing behaviours and actions on the hill than can potentially lead to injury. |
| Control | No intervention | –The control group will receive the usual procedures associated with school outings where students have the opportunity to watch the standard welcome video (~8 minutes) with information on how their day will go and how to use and put on safety equipment. The information given in the control procedure emphasizes preparation and how to use and put on equipment rather than safety messages oriented towards preventing injury and collisions. Students in the control group will watch the video prior to participating in the ski area school program. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 6 to 15 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Elementary and junior high school students (grades 1 to 9)
- Attends a school participating in a ski and snowboard school program hosted by a local ski area
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- High school students (grade 10 or above)
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Ski and Snowboard Safety VideoThe ski and snowboard safety video (~10 minutes) includes information on preparation, correct protective equipment use (e.g. helmets), and strategies for speed control and collision avoidance. Focus groups were conducted among parents, students, ski patrol, and ski instructors to inform the content and format of the video. Feedback and suggestions from focus groups were utilized to ensure that the video optimized information uptake from children and adolescents who watch the video. The Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) model was embedded throughout the video to ensure evidence-informed pathways towards positive behaviour change. | Other | Intervention |
Primary outcome
Knowledge Uptake
Time frame: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Students will take a baseline safety knowledge assessment before watching the assigned video (pre-test) and take the same test immediately after watching the assigned video (post-test). The video viewing and the pre- and post-test completion will be moderated in a classroom by the teacher and a member of the research team. Questions about preparations, equipment and proper hill etiquette will be included in the knowledge assessment questionnaire. At the start of the data collection session at the school, demographic information will be collected followed by the pre-test knowledge assessment for students to complete independently. After the pre-test knowledge assessment is completed and submitted, the students will then watch their assigned video. Immediately following the video, the students will independently complete the post-test knowledge assessment. A follow-up assessment test will be given to the participants approximately 1 month after watching the video.
2 secondary outcomes
Risky Behaviours
Time frame: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Injury
Time frame: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 5 Oct 2017.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Brent E Hagel, PhD principal investigator
University of Calgary
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Ski and Snowboard Safety Video in people with Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice and Risk Behavior, run by Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre.
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 2 inclusion and 1 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 5 Oct 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
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?
Results are not available in the source record.
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?
Knowledge Uptake (time frame: Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
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 5 Oct 2017.