Neighborhood Park Youth Sports Program Fee Waiver and Intensive Family Outreach to Promote Physical Activity in Low-Income Children Ages 6-12 Years

邻里公园青少年体育项目减免费用和强化家庭外展活动，以促进 6-12 岁低收入儿童的体育活动

• 批准号: 10208312
• 负责人: SIMONE A. FRENCH
• 金额: $ 77.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10208312
• 关键词: Address; Age; Child; Communication Barriers; Communities; Community Outreach; Development; Economics; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Evaluation; Family; Fees; Gold; Income; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Light; Light Exercise; Low income; Measurement; Neighborhoods; Parents; Physical activity; Policies; Randomized; Research; Research Design; Sampling; Strenuous Exercise; Structure; Time; Urban Community; Youth; arm; base; cohort; comparison intervention; disparity reduction; ethnic diversity; high risk; outreach; programs; racial and ethnic; randomized controlled study; randomized trial; sedentary; sedentary activity; sedentary lifestyle; social; waiver; youth sports

Neighborhood parks hold great potential as attractive and accessible settings to promote and enhance physical activity (PA) among racially/ethnically diverse low-income youth. However, little park-based intervention research has been conducted to explore how this potential might be realized. No previous park-level intervention has experimentally evaluated youth sports program fee waivers or intensive park outreach strategies to increase child enrollment and participation in park-based youth sports programs. The proposed research combines these promising intervention strategies into a single intervention and uses a gold-standard randomized controlled study design, and focuses on a low-income, racially/ethnically diverse sample at highest risk for developmental declines in physical activity. The proposed study evaluates the effects of a park-level intervention to increase moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and decrease sedentary time among low- income racially/ethnically diverse children ages 6-12 yrs. Neighborhood parks (n=24) will be randomized for a 2-year period to one of two experimental conditions: 1) Intensive Outreach and Youth Sports Program Fee Waiver; or 2) Comparison Condition: Current Outreach and Youth Sports Program Fee Structure. The intervention outreach and fee waiver components are expected to support parents to enroll their child in park- based youth sports programs by decreasing social/cultural and economic barriers to child enrollment and participation. The evaluation cohort will consist of 432 children ages 6-12 yrs who reside in one of the 24 park neighborhoods randomized to the experimental conditions. Measurements from individual children will be collected at baseline, 6, 12, and 24 months. Specific Aims of this research are: Specific Aim 1: To evaluate the effects of a park-level intervention on changes in child MVPA over 6, 12 and 24 months; Specific Aim 2: To evaluate the effects of a park-level interventions on changes in child sedentary behavior over 6, 12 and 24 months; Exploratory Aim 3: To evaluate the effects of a park-level interventions on changes in parent light activity and sedentary behavior over 6, 12 and 24 months. Hypothesis 1: Children who live in a neighborhood where the park is randomized to intensive park outreach and fee waiver will have larger increases in MVPA and decreases in sedentary behavior at 6, 12 and 24 months relative to children who live in a comparison neighborhood. Hypothesis 2: Parents of children who live in a neighborhood where the park is randomized to intensive park outreach and fee waiver will have larger increases in light PA and decreases in sedentary behavior at 6, 12 and 24 months relative to parents of children who live in a comparison neighborhood. IMPACT: The proposed research will provide evidence about the effectiveness of a park-based intervention that includes intensive park outreach and youth sports program fee waivers on changes in child physical activity in low-income, diverse urban communities. It will provide critical information needed to support policies and programs that reduce disparities in physical activity among high risk youth.

邻里公园具有巨大的潜力，可以促进和增强身体 种族/种族多样化的低收入青年的活动（PA）。但是，小的基于公园的干预 进行了研究以探索如何实现这种潜力。没有以前的公园级别 干预已通过实验评估了青年运动计划费用豁免或密集的公园外展 增加儿童入学率并参与基于公园的青年体育计划的策略。提议 研究将这些有前途的干预策略结合到单一干预措施中，并使用金标准 随机对照研究设计，并专注于最高的低收入，种族/种族多样的样本 体育锻炼的发育风险下降。拟议的研究评估了公园级别的影响 干预以增加中度/剧烈的体育锻炼（MVPA），并减少低 - 种族/种族多元化的年龄在6 - 12岁之间的收入。邻里公园（n = 24）将被随机分配 2年期限为两个实验条件之一：1）强化外展和青年运动计划费用 放弃;或2）比较条件：当前的外展和青年运动计划费用结构。这 干预外展活动和费用豁免组件有望支持父母在公园里招募孩子 通过减少儿童入学率的社会/文化和经济障碍，基于青年体育计划 参与。评估队列将由432名6至12岁的儿童组成，他们居住在24个公园之一 随机分配到实验条件的社区。单个孩子的测量将是 在基线，6、12和24个月时收集。这项研究的具体目的是：特定目的1：评估 公园水平干预对6、12和24个月的儿童MVPA变化的影响；具体目标2： 评估公园水平干预对6、12和24儿童久坐行为变化的影响 月份；探索目的3：评估公园级干预对父母光变化的影响 在6、12和24个月内的活动和久坐行为。假设1：住在附近的孩子 公园被随机分配到密集的公园外展和费用放弃的地方将在MVPA中增加更大的增加 相对于生活中的儿童，在6、12和24个月时久坐行为减少 邻里。假设2：居住在公园被随机居住在附近的孩子的父母 密集的公园外展和豁免费用将在轻pa中增加，久坐不动 相对于住在比较社区的孩子的父母，6、12和24个月的行为。 影响：拟议的研究将提供有关基于公园干预的有效性的证据 其中包括密集的公园外展和青年运动计划费用豁免儿童身体变化 低收入，多元化城市社区的活动。它将提供支持政策所需的关键信息 以及减少高风险青年体育锻炼差异的计划。