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Co-Creating Active Middle School Communities to Increase Student Physical Activity

Co-Creating and Implementing Contextually Responsive Physical Activity Interventions With Middle School Adolescents

Who can join

Ages 11 to 99 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Parent/guardian and child/adolescent dyads
* Child/adolescent must be enrolled in the 6th grade at participating schools at baseline
* Parent/guardian and child/adolescent must reside in the same household
* Parent/guardian and child/adolescent must reside within the school catchment area (school community)
* Parent/guardian must speak English or Spanish
* Child/adolescent must speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child/adolescent has a condition that precludes or decreases participation in physical activity
* Child/adolescent cannot complete a written survey

About the study

The purpose of this study is to identify community-level barriers and facilitators for active transport and leisure physical activity and to co-create and test the effectiveness and longer-term sustainability of community-based physical activity intervention strategies in middle schools. Participation in this study may help the investigators and scientific community better understand and address child physical activity and health. This study will collect information about middle school children's physical activity behaviors, habits, knowledge, and activity. The UTHealth School of Public Health is leading the study together with the University of Texas at Austin.

What is being tested

• Active Middle School Communities (behavioral)

Sponsor: Deanna Hoelscher · Participants: 450 · Started: Mar 2, 2026

Contact the study team

• Deanna M Hoelscher, PhD · Phone: (512) 391-2510
• Deborah Salvo, PhD · Phone: 408-386-5614

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06970067

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.