Children- Sit Less, Move More (C-SLAMM): Increasing Physical Activity and Decreasing Sedentary Behaviour in Children

NCT05854355 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REC.21.0027
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 162
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Children Sit Less, Move More (C-SLAMM) study aims to test the feasibility and potential effect of a multi-component school and home-based pilot cluster randomized control trial on reducing sedentary behavior and increasing physical activity in children. This pilot intervention will be an 8-week two-armed cluster RCT. Individuals (children aged 7-9 years) will be the unit of analysis and schools (cluster) randomly assigned to one of two arms: (1) Physical activity and sedentary behavior (intervention arm), or (2) current practice (control arm). The design conduct and reporting of the intervention with adhere to the Consolidation Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines and is guided by the Standard Protocol Items for Randomized Trials (SPIRIT) Statement.

Conditions

Physical Inactivity; Sedentary Behavior; Health Behavior; Child Behavior; Physical Activity

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Sitting time (mins)

  Change in time spent sitting using activPAL inclinometer device

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Standing time (mins)

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

• Stepping time (mins)

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

• Steps

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

• Sit to stand transitions

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

• Height (m)

  7 days at baseline and at follow-up (8 weeks)

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

This group received the multi-component school and home-based intervention (physical activity programme (aimed to increase children's physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour)

Other: C-SLAMM Study

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The primary school children in the control group did not receive the intervention. The control arm continued with their usual practice and lesson delivery, no environmental changes were made to their classrooms.

Interventions

C-SLAMM Study OTHER

The intervention arm includes using innovative behavioural, pedagogical, and environmental strategies within the classroom, school, and home settings to get children moving more and sitting less. The strategies were based on strategies used in Transform-Us! involved incorporating movement into everyday class lessons - the delivery of the lesson changes, not the content. Resources included health lessons, active lessons, active breaks, active homework to do with parents, active environments, and newsletters for parents.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 9 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Primary school pupil
• Year 4 (Key Stage 1) or Year 5 (Key Stage 2)
• years
• Living in Northern Ireland

You may not qualify if:

• Cannot speak English
• Severe psychological or neurological condition

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Ulster: lead
• Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Ulster University

Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT370QB, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Nally S, Carlin A, Gallagher AM, Wilson JJ, Lahart IM, Salmon J, Murphy MH. The Children - Sit Less, Move More (C-SLAMM) pilot intervention: Feasibility and acceptability of a multi-component school and home-based intervention to promote physical activity. PLoS One. 2025 Nov 19;20(11):e0335933. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0335933. eCollection 2025.

  PMID: 41259385 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior; Health Behavior; Child Behavior; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Marie Murphy, PhD

  University of Ulster

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Four schools allocated to receive the intervention; four schools allocated to the control group

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 30, 2023
• First Posted: May 11, 2023
• Study Start: September 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: April 13, 2022
• Study Completion: June 12, 2022
• Last Updated: May 11, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)