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A Skills-based RCT for Physical Activity Using Peer Mentors
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Mentoring to be Active with Accelerometers and Planning to be Active with Accelerometers for Health Behavior and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 571 participants across 20 sites.
Detailed Summary
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
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Trained high school mentors will deliver a 10 session curriculum targeting physical activity to younger teens.
Health education teachers will deliver the 10 session curriculum targeting physical activity to high school students enrolled in health courses.