Active, not recruitingNot applicableInterventional
What this study is about
Black Girls Move is a school-linked daughter/mother physical activity and dietary behavior program, with 9th and 10th grade students. This program is designed to prevent obesity in Black adolescent females and thus aligns with the NIH mission to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. This project is relevant to public health because it holds the potential to reduce population health disparities impacted by structural racism.
A promising-looking record is not the same as confirmed eligibility. The study team must review the full criteria and current recruitment status.
Basic eligibility
Age12 Years to 18 Years
SexFemale
Healthy volunteersAccepted
ConditionAdolescent Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus
Full registry criteria
Inclusion Criteria for daughters are: * English speaking; * Black; * grade 9 or 10; * daily access to the internet outside of school and/or work through an iOS or android smart phone, tablet, or personal computer; * either high-normal weight (between ≥50th and \<85th percentile for age and gender) or overweight (between ≥85th and \<95th percentile for age and gender) as the purpose of this study is weight maintenance and obesity prevention in at-risk daughters rather than obesity treatment; 98 and * have either a poor diet, (defined as consuming \<1 vegetable or \<1 fruit per day) 99 or inadequate PA (defined as \< 60 minutes per day, 7 days per week). 99,100 Inclusion criteria for mothers are: * English-speaking; * Black; * co-residing biological mother or mother-figure and legal guardian of the participating daughter; * the person primarily responsible for meals in the household; and * access to the internet through an iOS or android smart phone, tablet or personal computer. In a longitudinal study of 480 adults, 84% of adults with obesity were adolescents with high normal weight status (≥50th and \<85th percentile). National data on cell phone ownership show that 81% of Black students and 68% of Black parents own a smart phone Exclusion Criteria: The exclusion criteria for both daughters and mothers includes: * having conditions/procedures that prevent the oral consumption of foods (e.g., gastric feeding tubes); * presence of physical limitations that would preclude participation in the PA activity components of the intervention; * altered dietary intake (e.g., pregnancy, eating or metabolic disorders except for type 1 or type 2 diabetes); and * at baseline physical assessment, participants screened for uncontrolled blood pressure (systolic \> 130, diastolic \>80 for daughters; and systolic \>160, diastolic \>100 for mothers) will be eligible only with a healthcare provider release. * participants with diagnosed type 1 or 2 diabetes will be eligible for participation only with a healthcare provider release. * mothers will be screened for cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal risk factors with the 7-item Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire. Mothers that answer 'yes' to any item on the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire will be eligible only with a healthcare provider release. Daughters or mothers who are asked to provide healthcare provider release will be referred to the Chicago Department of Public Health if they do not have a primary care provider. To be eligible to participate in either condition, both the daughter and her mother must be willing and eligible to participate in the study.
Treatments and study arms
Black Girls Move
Behavioral
Goal setting and monitoring. All BGM daughters will self-monitor their progress towards PA goals using a PA device, Fitbit®. Additionally, BGM daughters will self-monitor their progress towards diet goals using a mobile application, Start Simple with My Plate®. Further, all BGM mothers will use Fitbit® and Start Simple with My Plate® for self monitoring, however, mothers' data will not be analyzed for this study. Since the daughter/ mother relationship is critical to achieving behavioral change, BGM mothers will utilize Fitbit® and Start Simple with My Plate® as a mechanism to communicate, problem solve and support daughters' behavioral goals.BGM is situated within the contexts of environmental, cultural, interpersonal, and developmental factors impacted by structural racism. Intentionally engaging mothers and daughters in an asset based program provides a framework for mothers to model responses to structural racism i.e. racial socialization.