Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club for Cardiovascular Health
This study, called Strong Teens for Healthy Schools (STHS), is looking at how a school-based program can help middle school students improve their physical activity and healthy eating habits. The program aims to empower students to make positive changes in their school environment that can lead to better heart health. Students in certain 6th and 7th grades who attend specific Title 1 middle schools in Texas may be able to join. The study will compare students who participate in the STHS program with those who receive usual school activities. Researchers will measure changes in risk factors for metabolic syndrome (a group of conditions that increase your risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes) and overall positive youth development to see if the program is successful. The current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study involving 500 participants. Schools will be randomly assigned to either participate in the STHS program or continue with their usual activities.
- What's involved
- If your school is in the intervention group, you would participate in 24 thirty-minute modules (or twelve 1-hour modules) during the fall semester.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Researchers will measure outcomes at baseline, immediately after the intervention (9 months), and then again 4 months and 12 months after the intervention.
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Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club: A Civic Engagement Approach to Improving Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Environments
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What this trial measures
- Presence or absence of metabolic syndrome (MetS)Baseline, 9 months (immediate post intervention), 4 months and 12 months post intervention
MetS is present after identifying abdominal obesity plus at least two of the four other MetS Risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low HDL cholesterol, and high triglyceride levels. MetS = (abdominal obesity) + (2 of 4 other MetS Risk factors) Measures to determine MetS risk factors: 1. Abdominal obesity: waist circumference \>90th percentile for child's sex and age 2. High blood pressure: systolic blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg) 3. High blood glucose: blood glucose ≥5.6 mmol/L or known diabetes 4. Low HDL cholesterol: HDL cholesterol \<1.03 mmol/L 5. High triglyceride level: Triglyceride level ≥ 1.7mmol/L
- Change in the number of MetS risk factorsBaseline, 9 months (immediate post intervention), 4 months and 12 months post intervention
Change in the number of MetS risk factors = (new # of MetS risk factors) - (original # of MetS risk factors) Measures to determine MetS risk factors: 1. Abdominal obesity: waist circumference \>90th percentile for child's sex and age 2. High blood pressure: systolic blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg) 3. High blood glucose: blood glucose ≥5.6 mmol/L or known diabetes 4. Low HDL cholesterol: HDL cholesterol \<1.03 mmol/L 5. High triglyceride level: Triglyceride level ≥ 1.7mmol/L
- Positive Youth Development scoreBaseline, 9 months (immediate post intervention), 4 months and 12 months post intervention
Positive youth development will be measured using a 5 C's Model of Positive Youth Development Scale-Short Form (PYD-SF): A 34-item scale that assesses the strength of psychological, behavioral, and social development in youth. The five dimensions measured are: 1. Competence (sense of proficiency) 2. Confidence (self-worth, self-efficacy) 3. Character (adherence to societal and cultural rules) 4. Connection (bonds with people and institutions) 5. Caring (sympathy and empathy towards others)