Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program

NCT00949637 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: SF SNAP y1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 76
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to prevent obesity by improving the environmental characteristics of Girl Scouts troop meetings.

Conditions

Obesity

Keywords

obesity prevention; girl scouts; physical activity; family meals; fruits and vegetables; health promotion

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Body mass index percentile ranking

  5 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Obesity-related behaviors

  5 months

• Troop environmental encouragement and opportunities for healthful eating and physical activity

  continuous

Study Arms (2)

Scouting curricular implementation

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.

Behavioral: Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program

Standard-care attentional control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.

Behavioral: Standard-care attentional control

Interventions

Scouting Nutrition and Activity Program BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group will receive a curriculum based on social cognitive theory, wherein children will be taught skills in a supportive environment to improve their self efficacy and proxy efficacy toward eating healthful meals and being physically active with a parent. Troop leaders and parents will provide support, and help girls to create healthy opportunities in the home environment. Simultaneously, girls will be taught skills to improve the family mealtime environment, to bolster asking skills toward healthy behavior, to self-monitor healthy behavior, and to set goals for healthy behavior.

Also known as: SNAP

Scouting curricular implementation

Standard-care attentional control BEHAVIORAL

Control troops complete usual troop meeting activities. Control troops receive equal observation time, equal pretest and posttest assessment, and equal study scrutiny.

Also known as: Control

Standard-care attentional control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 12 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Girls had to be attending members of Girl Scouts in one of our included troops.
• The troop needed to be a registered Girl Scouts Juniors troop, consisting of girls primarily in the 4th and 5th grades.
• To be officially registered, the troop leaders were required to complete Girl Scout leader training and pass a criminal background check.
• To be included, the troops also needed to meet at least twice per month, have meeting facilities capable of allowing physical activity and food preparation.
• Also, troops needed to have initial agreement of leaders and parents for the troop to participate in a research study.

You may not qualify if:

• An inability to speak or read English.
• Troops not primarily composed of Girl Scouts Juniors, not regularly meeting during the study period, or not having leader and parental consensus approval for troop participation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kansas State University: lead
• The Sunflower Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas, 66506, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Rosenkranz RR, Behrens TK, Dzewaltowski DA. A group-randomized controlled trial for health promotion in Girl Scouts: healthier troops in a SNAP (Scouting Nutrition & Activity Program). BMC Public Health. 2010 Feb 19;10:81. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-81.

  PMID: 20170502 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Obesity; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overweight; Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Richard R. Rosenkranz, PhD

  Kansas State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 21, 2009
• First Posted: July 30, 2009
• Study Start: October 1, 2007
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2008
• Study Completion: May 1, 2008
• Last Updated: March 9, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-03

Locations

US (1)