A Skills-based RCT for Physical Activity Using Peer Mentors

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Health Behavior, Obesity, Motor Activity

In brief

This approach will train peer mentors to deliver a culturally appropriate intervention and provide social support that is critical for facilitating and sustaining health behavior change. The objective is to compare the efficacy of an innovative healthy lifestyle skills mentoring program (Mentored Planning to be Active \[MBA\]) to a teacher led program (PBA) for increasing physical activity in Appalachian high school teens. MBA emphasizes the social determinants of health by using a social networking approach that trains peer mentors to support targeted teens

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02329262

Run by

Ohio State University

People needed

571

Starts

2015-09-01

Expected to finish

2018-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-12

Who can join

Age: 14 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 9th or 10th grade students as participants
• 11th or 12th grade students as mentors
• Classroom teachers who instruct health education or physical education to 9th and 10th grade students.
• Not expected to move from school prior to conclusion of study
• Speaks English

You may not qualify if…

• Peer mentors with a BMI (for age and gender) above the 85th percentile or below the 5th percentile at the start of the study

Where it is running

• River Valley High School — Bidwell, Ohio, United States
• Chillicothe High School — Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
• Huntington Local High School — Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
• Unioto High School — Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
• Zane Trace High School — Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
• Dawson-Bryant High School — Coal Grove, Ohio, United States
• Green High School — Franklin Furnace, Ohio, United States
• Ironton High School — Ironton, Ohio, United States
• Jackson High School — Jackson, Ohio, United States
• Western High School — Latham, Ohio, United States
• New Boston High School — New Boston, Ohio, United States
• Oak Hill High School — Oak Hill, Ohio, United States
• Piketon High School — Piketon, Ohio, United States
• Clay Local High School — Portsmouth, Ohio, United States
• West Portsmouth High School — Portsmouth, Ohio, United States
• Southern Local High School — Racine, Ohio, United States
• South Point High School — South Point, Ohio, United States
• Federal Hocking High School — Stewart, Ohio, United States
• Berne Union High School — Sugar Grove, Ohio, United States
• Waverly High School — Waverly, Ohio, United States

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