TY - JOUR
T1 - The COPE healthy lifestyles TEEN randomized controlled trial with culturally diverse high school adolescents
T2 - Baseline characteristics and methods
AU - Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
AU - Kelly, Stephanie
AU - Jacobson, Diana
AU - Belyea, Michael
AU - Shaibi, Gabriel
AU - Small, Leigh
AU - O'Haver, Judith
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio Francisco
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Obesity and mental health disorders remain significant public health problems in adolescents. Substantial health disparities exist with minority youth experiencing higher rates of these problems. Schools are an outstanding venue to provide teens with skills needed to improve their physical and mental health, and academic performance. In this paper, the authors describe the design, intervention, methods and baseline data for a randomized controlled trial with 779 culturally diverse high-school adolescents in the southwest United States. Aims for this prevention study include testing the efficacy of the COPE TEEN program versus an attention control program on the adolescents' healthy lifestyle behaviors, Body Mass Index (BMI) and BMI%, mental health, social skills and academic performance immediately following the intervention programs, and at six and 12. months post interventions. Baseline findings indicate that greater than 40% of the sample is either overweight (n. =. 148, 19.00%) or obese (n. =. 182, 23.36%). The predominant ethnicity represented is Hispanic (n. =. 526, 67.52%). At baseline, 15.79% (n. =. 123) of the students had above average scores on the Beck Youth Inventory Depression subscale indicating mildly (n. =. 52, 6.68%), moderately (n. =. 47, 6.03%), or extremely (n. =. 24, 3.08%) elevated scores (see Table1). Anxiety scores were slightly higher with 21.56% (n. =. 168) reporting responses suggesting mildly (n. =. 81, 10.40%), moderately (n. =. 58, 7.45%) or extremely (n. =. 29, 3.72%) elevated scores. If the efficacy of the COPE TEEN program is supported, it will offer schools a curriculum that can be easily incorporated into high school health courses to improve adolescent healthy lifestyle behaviors, psychosocial outcomes and academic performance.
AB - Obesity and mental health disorders remain significant public health problems in adolescents. Substantial health disparities exist with minority youth experiencing higher rates of these problems. Schools are an outstanding venue to provide teens with skills needed to improve their physical and mental health, and academic performance. In this paper, the authors describe the design, intervention, methods and baseline data for a randomized controlled trial with 779 culturally diverse high-school adolescents in the southwest United States. Aims for this prevention study include testing the efficacy of the COPE TEEN program versus an attention control program on the adolescents' healthy lifestyle behaviors, Body Mass Index (BMI) and BMI%, mental health, social skills and academic performance immediately following the intervention programs, and at six and 12. months post interventions. Baseline findings indicate that greater than 40% of the sample is either overweight (n. =. 148, 19.00%) or obese (n. =. 182, 23.36%). The predominant ethnicity represented is Hispanic (n. =. 526, 67.52%). At baseline, 15.79% (n. =. 123) of the students had above average scores on the Beck Youth Inventory Depression subscale indicating mildly (n. =. 52, 6.68%), moderately (n. =. 47, 6.03%), or extremely (n. =. 24, 3.08%) elevated scores (see Table1). Anxiety scores were slightly higher with 21.56% (n. =. 168) reporting responses suggesting mildly (n. =. 81, 10.40%), moderately (n. =. 58, 7.45%) or extremely (n. =. 29, 3.72%) elevated scores. If the efficacy of the COPE TEEN program is supported, it will offer schools a curriculum that can be easily incorporated into high school health courses to improve adolescent healthy lifestyle behaviors, psychosocial outcomes and academic performance.
KW - Adolescents
KW - High school
KW - Mental health
KW - Overweight
KW - Prevention
KW - RCT
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cct.2013.05.013
DO - 10.1016/j.cct.2013.05.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 23748156
AN - SCOPUS:84879590518
SN - 1551-7144
VL - 36
SP - 41
EP - 53
JO - Contemporary Clinical Trials
JF - Contemporary Clinical Trials
IS - 1
ER -