Active Middle School Communities Project
In collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin College of Education, “Co-Creating and Implementing Contextually Responsive Physical Activity Interventions with Low-Income Adolescents” also known as the “Active Middle School Communities Project” is a comprehensive and community-engaged mixed methods study to design and test strategies for improving community-wide and individual-level physical activity outcomes in middle school neighborhoods.
Participate in an Interview!
Parents, Students, and Community members of the Bedichek, Covington, Dessau, Lively, Marshall, and Paredes neighborhoods, we need your voice!
Participate in an interview for the Active Middle School Communities research project and receive a gift card!
Learn more by filling out a consent form and our project team will contact you about next steps.
Parent/student https://redcap.link/amsc-school
Community member: https://redcap.link/amsc-community
¡Participe en una entrevista!
¡Padres, estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad de los vecindarios de Bedichek, Covington, Dessau, Lively, Marshall y Paredes, necesitamos su voz!
Participe en una entrevista para el Proyecto de Comunidades Activas de Escuelas Secundarias y reciba una tarjeta de regalo.
Para obtener más información, llene el formulario de consentimiento y nuestro equipo se comunicará con usted para informarle los siguientes pasos.
Padres y estudiantes: https://redcap.link/amsc-school
Vecinos: https://redcap.link/amsc-community
Purpose of the Study
- Physical inactivity is a public health crisis and a major contributor to chronic disease.
- We are conducting a comprehensive, community-engaged study to design and test strategies for improving individual-level and community-wide physical activity outcomes in middle school communities.
Goals
- To identify community-level barriers and facilitators for physical activity in urban middle school communities
- To engage multi-sectoral and multi-generational community actors for co-creating contextually-responsive intervention strategies to improve access to active transport and leisure in urban middle school communities.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the co-created intervention strategies for improving physical activity outcomes in urban middle school communities.
For more information, see the press release about the $5mil NIH Grant: https://www.uth.edu/news/story/physical-activity-intervention-strategies-in-low-income-communities-funded-by-a-5m-nih-grant-for-collaborative-research-at-uthealth houston-and-the-university-of-texas-at-austin.
