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: 10656241
• 负责人: SIMONE A. FRENCH
• 金额: $ 74.94万
• 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/10656241
• 关键词: Address; Age; Child; Communication Barriers; Communities; Community Outreach; Development; Disparity; Economics; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Family; Fees; Income; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Light; Light Exercise; Low income; Measurement; Neighborhoods; Parents; Physical activity; Policies; Race; Randomized; Research; Research Design; Sampling; Strenuous Exercise; Structure; Time; Urban Community; Youth; arm; cohort; comparison intervention; disparity reduction; ethnic diversity; high risk; outreach; programs; racial diversity; randomized trial; randomized, controlled study; 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.

邻里公园作为具有吸引力且易于到达的环境，具有巨大的潜力，可以促进和增强身体素质。 不同种族/民族的低收入青年的活动（PA）。然而，基于公园的干预很少 已经进行了研究来探索如何实现这一潜力。没有以前的公园级别 干预措施已通过实验评估了青少年体育项目费用减免或强化公园外展活动 提高儿童入学率和参与公园青少年体育项目的战略。拟议的 研究将这些有希望的干预策略结合成单一干预措施，并使用黄金标准 随机对照研究设计，重点关注低收入、种族/民族多样化的样本 体力活动发育下降的风险。拟议的研究评估了公园级别的影响 干预以增加中等/剧烈体力活动（MVPA），并减少低收入人群的久坐时间 6-12 岁收入不同种族/民族的儿童。社区公园 (n=24) 将被随机分配 两个实验条件之一的 2 年期：1) 强化外展和青少年体育项目费用 放弃;或 2) 比较条件：当前的外展和青少年体育项目费用结构。这 干预外展和费用减免部分预计将支持家长将孩子送入公园。 通过减少儿童入学的社会/文化和经济障碍，以青少年体育项目为基础 参与。评估队列将由居住在 24 个公园之一的 432 名 6 至 12 岁儿童组成 社区随机化到实验条件。个别儿童的测量结果将 在基线、6、12 和 24 个月时收集。本研究的具体目标是： 具体目标 1：评估 公园层面干预对 6、12 和 24 个月内儿童 MVPA 变化的影响；具体目标2： 评估公园层面的干预措施对 6、12 和 24 岁以上儿童久坐行为变化的影响 月；探索性目标 3：评估公园级干预措施对家长光线变化的影响 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 如果公园被随机分配到密集的公园外展和费用减免，那么 MVPA 将会有更大的增长 与对比组中的儿童相比，6、12 和 24 个月时久坐行为有所减少 邻里。假设 2：居住在公园附近的孩子的父母被随机分配到 密集的公园外展和费用减免将大幅增加轻度活动和减少久坐 与居住在比较社区的孩子的父母相比，他们在 6、12 和 24 个月时的行为。 影响：拟议的研究将为基于公园的干预措施的有效性提供证据 其中包括针对儿童体能变化的强化公园外展和青少年体育项目费用减免 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 以及减少高危青少年身体活动差异的计划。