The Effect of a Safety Video on Ski and Snowboard School Program Participants in Calgary, Alberta

NCT03184779 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: REB15-0749
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,348
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief 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. 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.

Conditions

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Risk Behavior; Injuries

Keywords

Ski; Snowboard; Snow Sport; Injury; Injury Prevention; Safety; Safety Video; Video Intervention; Youth; Children; Adolescent; Education; Knowledge

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 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.

  Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Risky Behaviours

  Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)

• Injury

  Throughout the ski/snowboard season (up to 5 months)

Study Arms (2)

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.

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.

Interventions

Ski and Snowboard Safety Video OTHER

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.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 15 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• High school students (grade 10 or above)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior; Risk-Taking; Wounds and Injuries

Study Officials

• Brent E Hagel, PhD

  University of Calgary

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Participants (including the teachers and students) will not be told by the research team if the video assigned to their class is the control or intervention. During the consent process though, they will be made aware that they are going to be randomly assigned to either the control or intervention video. Furthermore, when the two observers go to the ski hill to collect data on observed unsafe behaviours, they will be blinded to the intervention/control status of the school at the ski area that day to prevent observer bias.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: 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.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 2, 2017
• First Posted: June 14, 2017
• Study Start: July 26, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 17, 2017
• Study Completion: December 30, 2017
• Last Updated: October 5, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-04