Cardiovascular Health, Healthy Lifestyle
Conditions
Keywords
Children, Lifestyle, School-based Intervention, Cardiovascular Health, Health Promotion, Habits
Brief summary
Cluster randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a health promotion intervention (the SI! - Program NYC) on the adapted Ideal Cardiovascular Health score (aICH) in children enrolled in New York City elementary schools.
Detailed description
Cluster randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a health promotion intervention (the SI! - Program NYC) on the adapted Ideal Cardiovascular Health score (aICH) in children enrolled in New York City elementary schools. This study will enroll children of ages 5 to 6 and teachers from participating schools. Participating schools will be randomized to an intervention group or a control (non-intervention group). The SI! Program intervention will incorporate a comprehensive vision of cardiovascular health promotion that encompasses four basic components: body and heart, physical activity, healthy diet, and emotional management. The intervention will take place at baseline and a reintervention will take place at 2 years-follow up. The research team will assess an adapted version of the Ideal Cardiovascular Health (aICH) score (that includes body-mass-index Z-score, physical activity, diet, sleep time and smoking exposure) and the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Habits (KAH) score. The aICH will be evaluated at baseline, 2 years and 4 years follow-up; the KAH will be evaluated at baseline and after the first intervention, and prior and after the second intervention. The research team will also study the influence of factors in parents (socioeconomic and health-related variables), teachers (stress, teaching motivation, and health status), and the environment (pollution, housing, and neighborhood conditions) through parent/caregiver questionnaires, teacher questionnaires, publicly available data, and pollution data sourced from NASA satellites.
Interventions
OTHERSI! Program-NYC
SI! Program-NYC incorporates a comprehensive and integrated vision of CV health promotion that encompasses four (4) basic and interrelated components: body and heart, physical activity healthy diet; and emotional management.
Sponsors
Sesame Workshop
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
4 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* NYC Elementary school Kindergarten Children * Parents and teachers of participating children
Exclusion criteria
* Children who are Wards of the State * Children or parents who cannot provide legally effective consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adapted Ideal Cardiovascular Health Score (ICH) | Baseline | The adapted ideal cardiovascular health score (ICH) includes 5 components: body-mass-index Z-score, physical activity, diet, sleep/screen time, and passive smoking status. The score will be calculated for five factors on a 0 to 100 scale, according to pre-defined, age adjused cut-offs recommended by the American Heart Association. Higher values represent better health outcomes. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge, Attitudes, and Habits Score | Baseline | Questionnaires will be given to assess the knowledge (K), attitudes (A) and habits (H) of the children representing each of the components of the intervention (KAH-diet, KAH-physical activity, and KAH-human body). An overall score representing the intervention as a whole (overall KAH) will be derived from the 39 items, ranging from 0-80. The overall KAH score is derived from the sum of each component-specific score (Diet, 0 to 30 points; Physical activity, 0 to 30 points; and Human body, 0 to 20 points). |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed