ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2017
Feasibility of an incentive scheme to promote active travel to school: a pilot cluster randomised trial.
Article in Pilot and feasibility studies, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02282631 (The RIGHT TRACKS Study - Development and Feasibility of an Incentive Scheme to Promote Active School Travel in Year 5 Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The RIGHT TRACKS Study - Development and Feasibility of an Incentive Scheme to Promote Active School Travel in Year 5 Children
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Strategies and effects of school-based interventions to promote active school transportation by bicycle among children and adolescents: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Pre-school-based behaviour change intervention to increase physical activity levels amongst young children: a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Physical activity interventions in European primary schools: a scoping review to create a framework for the design of tailored interventions in European countries.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Systematic review of the characteristics of school-based feasibility cluster randomised trials of interventions for improving the health of pupils in the UK.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Review
- A Scoping Review of Children and Adolescents' Active Travel in Ireland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Strategies and effects of promising school-based interventions to promote active school transportation by bicycle among children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2019Article
- A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a preschool obesity prevention intervention: ToyBox-Scotland.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn Great Britain, 19% of trips to primary school within 1 mile, and 62% within 1-2 miles, are by car. Active travel to school (ATS) offers a potential source of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). This study tested the feasibility of an intervention to promote ATS in 9-10 year olds and associated trial procedures.
methodsA parallel cluster randomised pilot trial was conducted over 9 weeks in two schools from a low-income area in northeast England. Measures included daily parental ATS reports (optionally by SMS) and child ATS reports, as well as accelerometry (ActiGraph GT3X+). At baseline, all children were asked to wear the accelerometer for the same week; in the post-randomisation phase, small subsamples were monitored each week. In the 2 weeks when a child wore the accelerometer, parents also reported the start and finish times of the journey to school. The intervention consisted of a lottery-based incentive scheme; every ATS day reported by the parent, whether by paper or SMS, corresponded to one ticket entered into a weekly £5 voucher draw. Before each draw session, the researcher prepared the tickets and placed them into an opaque bag, from which one was randomly picked by the teacher at the draw session.
resultsFour schools replied positively (3.3%,
conclusionsData suggest the feasibility of an ATS incentive scheme and of most trial procedures. School recruitment stood out as requiring further piloting.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02282631. Registered 5th September 2014.
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