Great Leaders, Active Students.- Evaluating the impact of a Peer Leadership Program for Grade 6 students on the movement skill competency and physical activity levels of students in Kindergarten, Grade 1 and 2

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12615000331538
• Date of registration: 13/04/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Professor David Lubans
• Public title: Great Leaders, Active Students.- Evaluating the impact of a Peer Leadership Program for Grade 6 students on the movement skill competency and physical activity levels of students in Kindergarten, Grade 1 and 2
• Scientific title: An efficacy study of a 10-week primary school peer-led fundamental movement skill intervention on children’s (aged 5-8) fundamental movement skill proficiency and physical activity.
• Date of first enrolment: 23/03/2015
• Target sample size: 180
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12615000331538.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Prevention; Allocation: Non-randomised trial; Masking: Blinded (masking used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Efficacy;
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Australia

Contacts

• Name: Prof David Lubans

• Name: Prof David Lubans

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Schools- Two schools of convenience have been selected (one intervention, one comparison) for the efficacy trial.

Students- All students in Kinder to Year 6 will be invited to receive the intervention (as it is a whole school program). However. only children in K,1,2 and Yr 6 will be invited to participate in the evaluation of the program.
Exclusion criteria: None

Age minimum: 5 Years
Age maximum: 12 Years
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Obesity Prevention;
Obesity Prevention

Diet and Nutrition - Obesity

Public Health - Health promotion/education

Intervention(s)

The GLAS program will run within the school for 10 weeks (i.e. 1 school term). The Yr6 student leaders will deliver 2 x 30min FMS sessions to students in K-Yr5 for the school term. In order for the Yr6 student leaders to be competent and confident to deliver the 10 week course they will receive the following evidence based components:
1. 1 x 3hr training for Yr6 student leaders. This workshop will be delivered during school sport by the research team. The workshop will address the following:
a. Qualities of good leaders: Yr6 student leaders will be provided an overview of transformational leadership and how to demonstrate these qualities to the K-Yr5 students for example being a good role model, being positive and enthusiastic.
b. Introduction to Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS). This will be a practical session (approx. 1.5hrs) where Yr6 student leaders are taught in small groups by a trained physical education teacher the basic components of 6 movement skills so that they can then deliver this to K-Yr5 students.
c. Running simple games and activities. The Yr6 student leaders will be taught by the physical education teacher how to run a 30 minute FMS session with the K-Yr5 students by introducing a warm up, basic skills practice and modified game.
2. Resources- schools will receive- equipment kits for the FMS sessions which will be taught, activity cards for leaders and handbooks for student leaders
3. Feedback for peer leaders- 1 and 3 weeks following the training Yr6 student leaders will receive a follow-up visit by the trained physical education teacher, who will observe them deliver a 30min FMS session to the K-Yr5 students and will provide the Yr6 student leaders positive feedback regarding the leadership practice and to problem solve any issu

Primary Outcome(s)

The change in children's mean Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) competency score will be assessed using TGMD3[Baseline and 10 weeks later]

The change in children's mean number of steps per school day as measured by pedometer.[Baseline and 10 weeks later]

Secondary Outcome(s)

The change in children's mean leadership self-efficacy score will be assessed via student self report leadership self-efficacy survey.[Baseline and 10 weeks later]

Secondary ID(s)

NIL

Source(s) of Monetary Support

The University of Newcastle

Hunter New England Population Health

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Nicole Nathan

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

The University of Newcastle