Guys/Girls Opt for Activities for Life Trial (GOAL) to Increase Young Adolescents' Physical Activity and Healthy Eating (GOAL)
Obesity, Adolescent
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Obesity, Adolescent focused on measuring exercise, nutrition, parent, adolescent, overweight, percent body fat, cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, obesity
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Adolescent inclusion criteria are:
- 5th-8th grade boys and girls (ages 10-14)
- available and willing to participate in GOAL, including the school/community center club conducted after school 2 days/week for 13 weeks (not during 3 weeks of school/community center breaks)
- available for follow up (9 months after intervention ends)
- agree to random assignment
- able to read, understand, and speak English
- able to identify one parent/guardian who is willing and able to serve as a support person and complete study activities
Adolescent exclusion criteria are:
- mental or physical health condition precluding safe MVPA
- taking medications that alter appetite, weight, or growth.
Parent/guardian inclusion criteria are:
- have male or female student in 5th-8th grade
- ≥18 yrs. of age
- available and willing to participate in GOAL
- able to read, understand, and speak English or have an interpreter
- have Internet access and device for accessing website (e.g., mobile phone ["smart" phone], tablet, computer)
- mentally and physically able to serve as a support person.
Parent/guardian exclusion criteria are:
- mental or physical health condition precluding engagement in safe MVPA and healthy meal preparation with adolescent
- not interested in using a private social networking website, similar in design to Facebook, to respond to challenges
- not interested in learning to post.
Sites / Locations
- University of MichiganRecruiting
- Michigan State UniversityRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Guys/Girls Opt for Activities for Life Intervention (GOAL)
Control
Receives the 4 month (16-wk) GOAL intervention, which has 3 components: (1) After-school GOAL Club: 26 events (2 d/wk; 120 min/event/day; 13 wks due to no club during 3 school break wks) for boys and girls to engage in physical activity and healthy eating and cooking activities; (2) Three parent-adolescent meetings (1st meeting at each school with parents and adolescents [Zoom option if needed]; 2nd and 3rd meetings delivered virtually for parents): to empower parents to assist adolescents with physical activity and healthy eating and cooking; and (3) GOAL social networking website: private website for parents to share with each other how they helped their adolescent increase physical activity and diet quality during a prior wk.
Received usual school activities.