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Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention
BACKGROUND: Many children do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Extracurricular programmes could provide a mechanism to increase the PA levels of primary-school-aged children. Teaching assistants (TAs) are a valuable resource in all UK primary schools and could be trained to delivery after-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23782504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-122 |
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author | Jago, Russell Edwards, Mark J Cooper, Ashley R Fox, Kenneth R Powell, Jane Sebire, Simon J Spears, Melissa Thompson, Janice L Montgomery, Alan A |
author_facet | Jago, Russell Edwards, Mark J Cooper, Ashley R Fox, Kenneth R Powell, Jane Sebire, Simon J Spears, Melissa Thompson, Janice L Montgomery, Alan A |
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description | BACKGROUND: Many children do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Extracurricular programmes could provide a mechanism to increase the PA levels of primary-school-aged children. Teaching assistants (TAs) are a valuable resource in all UK primary schools and could be trained to delivery after-school PA programmes. The aim of this feasibility study is to examine whether the Action 3:30 PA intervention, which is delivered by TAs, could be effective in increasing the PA of Year 5 and 6 children. METHODS/DESIGN: A feasibility trial will be conducted in 20 primary schools. Schools will be randomly assigned to intervention or control arms. Intervention schools will receive a 25-hour TA training programme for two TAs, a first-aid certificate course for two TAs; ongoing TA support; 40 one-hour session plans that can be delivered by TAs; Action 3:30 clubs that run twice a week for 20 weeks; and ten sets of parent information sheets that are distributed biweekly. All measures will be assessed at baseline (Time 0), at the end of the intervention period (Time 1) and four months after the intervention has ended (Time 2). As this is a feasibility study, our primary interest is in estimating the recruitment of schools and children, adherence to the intervention, and completeness of data collection for outcomes and costs. As the most likely primary outcome measure in a future definitive trial will be accelerometer-determined minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) per day, participants will wear accelerometers for five days (including two weekend days). Several psychosocial variables that could act as mediators in a future trial will be assessed via a questionnaire. Process evaluations of the session attendance, perceived enjoyment and perceived exertion will be assessed during the intervention. At the end of the intervention period, qualitative assessments will be conducted to identify how the programme could be improved before proceeding to a larger trial. DISCUSSION: The goal of the feasibility trial is to assess the potential of this innovative intervention approach and provide all the information necessary to design a cluster randomized controlled trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN, ISRCTN58502739 |
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spelling | pubmed-36809702013-06-14 Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention Jago, Russell Edwards, Mark J Cooper, Ashley R Fox, Kenneth R Powell, Jane Sebire, Simon J Spears, Melissa Thompson, Janice L Montgomery, Alan A Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Many children do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Extracurricular programmes could provide a mechanism to increase the PA levels of primary-school-aged children. Teaching assistants (TAs) are a valuable resource in all UK primary schools and could be trained to delivery after-school PA programmes. The aim of this feasibility study is to examine whether the Action 3:30 PA intervention, which is delivered by TAs, could be effective in increasing the PA of Year 5 and 6 children. METHODS/DESIGN: A feasibility trial will be conducted in 20 primary schools. Schools will be randomly assigned to intervention or control arms. Intervention schools will receive a 25-hour TA training programme for two TAs, a first-aid certificate course for two TAs; ongoing TA support; 40 one-hour session plans that can be delivered by TAs; Action 3:30 clubs that run twice a week for 20 weeks; and ten sets of parent information sheets that are distributed biweekly. All measures will be assessed at baseline (Time 0), at the end of the intervention period (Time 1) and four months after the intervention has ended (Time 2). As this is a feasibility study, our primary interest is in estimating the recruitment of schools and children, adherence to the intervention, and completeness of data collection for outcomes and costs. As the most likely primary outcome measure in a future definitive trial will be accelerometer-determined minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) per day, participants will wear accelerometers for five days (including two weekend days). Several psychosocial variables that could act as mediators in a future trial will be assessed via a questionnaire. Process evaluations of the session attendance, perceived enjoyment and perceived exertion will be assessed during the intervention. At the end of the intervention period, qualitative assessments will be conducted to identify how the programme could be improved before proceeding to a larger trial. DISCUSSION: The goal of the feasibility trial is to assess the potential of this innovative intervention approach and provide all the information necessary to design a cluster randomized controlled trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN, ISRCTN58502739 BioMed Central 2013-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3680970/ /pubmed/23782504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-122 Text en Copyright © 2013 Jago et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Jago, Russell Edwards, Mark J Cooper, Ashley R Fox, Kenneth R Powell, Jane Sebire, Simon J Spears, Melissa Thompson, Janice L Montgomery, Alan A Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title | Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title_full | Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title_fullStr | Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title_full_unstemmed | Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title_short | Action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
title_sort | action 3:30: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23782504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-122 |
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