Turn up the HEAT - Healthy Eating and Activity Time in Summer Day Camps

NCT02161809 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: Pro00032881
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators long-term goal is to increase the number of Summer Day Camps (SDC) that meet the National Afterschool Association Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) Standards. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention designed to increase children's PA levels and improve the quality of lunches and snacks children consume in SDCs. The HEPA intervention is designed to target children, parents, staff, program leaders, and the SDC environment and uses a train-the-trainer model with SDC leaders to train their staff to deliver and integrate the intervention into routine practice. In the proposed study, the investigators will evaluate these HEPA strategies, using a 4-year randomized controlled trial with 20 SDCs. An important feature of the study will be the evaluation of maintenance of the intervention after the removal of research support (e.g., training, boosters) during the final year, as well as costs associated with implementation. The investigators hypothesize that intervention SDCs will achieve significantly greater increases in HEPA, compared to control SDCs. The investigators expect the study to support the cost-effectiveness and maintenance of our strategies for promoting HEPA that will facilitate SDCs meeting newly-established HEPA standards for this setting.

Conditions

Childhood Obesity

Keywords

MVPA; Healthy Eating; children; childhood obesity

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in percentage of children meeting 60min of MVPA

  Changes in percentage of children at each summer day camp that meet the National Afterschool Alliance Standard of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily.

  Year 1 - Year 4

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in percentage of children bringing/consuming healthy foods/beverages

  Year 1 - Year 4

Study Arms (2)

Physical Activity Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm (10 summer day camps) will receive the Physical Activity intervention the first year and both healthy eating and physical activity the second and thrid years.

Behavioral: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Healthy EAting Intervention

OTHER

This arm (10 summer day camps) will receive the Healthy Eating intervention the first year and both healthy eating and physical activity the second and thrid years.

Behavioral: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Interventions

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) intervention aims to increase the quality of foods and beverages and physical activity opportunities in summer day camps. Through staff-level training, physical activity opportunities are modified to provide children with a substantial amount of meaningful physical activity. Through working with foods service providers, changes to the types of foods and beverages served will be made.

Also known as: HEPA

Healthy EAting Intervention; Physical Activity Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Summer Day camps will be eligible if:
• They operate for at least 10 weeks during the summer
• They do not have any primary focus such as sports, art, or tutoring (must be a general camp)
• Enrollment is at least 40 campers
• Operation hours are at least 8 hours.

You may not qualify if:

• Children will be unable to wear an activity monitor if experience any physical and/or orthopedic impairment that limits the child's ability to participate in regular PA (e.g., wheelchair user)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of South Carolina: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina, 29201, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Weaver RG, Brazendale K, Chandler JL, Turner-McGrievy GM, Moore JB, Huberty JL, Ward DS, Beets MW. First year physical activity findings from turn up the HEAT (Healthy Eating and Activity Time) in summer day camps. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 28;12(3):e0173791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173791. eCollection 2017.

  PMID: 28350830 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

Diet, Healthy; Exercise

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Diet; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Diet, Food, and Nutrition; Physiological Phenomena; Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Michael W Beets, PhD

  University of South Carolina

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 10, 2014
• First Posted: June 12, 2014
• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2018
• Study Completion: August 1, 2018
• Last Updated: November 18, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-11

Locations

US (1)