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Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
12 Years to 19 Years
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 5 years, 7 days
  • Procedures mentioned: Questionnaires, Interviews

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "Study participants will be recruited in staggered cohorts with those in each recruitment wave receiving individual-level random assignment to either immediate intervention or waitlist control (3 months wait to intervention) for a total of 176 Choctaw youth (ages 12-19 years) participating over 5 years."
  • "After consent or assent and parental permission are obtained, CNO study staff will set up the study laptop and headphones that the participant will use to enter their responses to the baseline computer-assisted questionnaire."
  • "Assessments: The baseline assessment consists of a brief physical health assessment and a computer-assisted behavioral health survey administered by study staff."
  • "Youth participants are required to take a non-invasive physical health assessment (BMI with portable digital weight scale and height measure), identify the age they began puberty (girls \< 12 years old began menstruation; boys \<14 when voice changed "a lot" will be classified as early puberty) and to use an accelerometer for 7 days after the baseline assessment."
  • "The computer-assisted behavioral health survey will ask a series of questions and take under 45 minutes to complete."
  • "The assessments will be conducted via Audio-Computer Assisted Self-Interviews (ACASI) programmed into study computers."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests Wakaya, an outdoor program based on Choctaw values, for Choctaw youth. It aims to help youth be more active, sit less, eat healthier, and delay or reduce alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. Youth are randomly placed in a program group or a group that waits to take part.

Investigators will conduct a two-group randomized waitlist-control trial to assess the efficacy of the Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health program on improving physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviors and improving healthful eating habits as well as delaying or reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. Wakaya is an experiential, outdoor, nature-based program grounded in Choctaw values. It is a multi-level intervention that increases individual motivation and leadership skills to make healthy behavioral choices for behavior and exercise.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be enrolled in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO).
  • Live within the CNO tribal region for 12 months.
  • Also meet at least one of the following four conditions:
  • Have sugary drinks or processed or fast food at least twice a week.
  • Sit or lie around for more than 9 hours a day, or use small screens for fun for more than 2 hours a day.
  • Spend less than 1 hour a day outdoors, less than 2.5 hours a week doing medium- or high-effort exercise, or less than 1 hour a day doing medium- or high-effort activity that raises your heart rate.
  • Watch TV, use small screens, or play video games for more than 2 hours a day.

Who can't join

  • Use opioids or methamphetamine at least twice in the past month.
  • Have had a food, plant, or insect allergy that caused trouble breathing, a hospital stay, or anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction).
  • Have a disability that prevents walking or exercise.
  • Show aggressive, violent, combative, or inappropriate behavior.
  • Cannot follow directions.
  • Have symptoms of psychosis, such as seeing or hearing things that are not there.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Be enrolled in Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) * Live within CNO tribal region for 12 months YES to one of the following: * Consumed sweetened beverages or processed/fast food 2x or more per week; OR * Engaged in excessive sitting or lying around (\>540 min/day) or engage in small screen recreation (\>2 hours/day); OR * Physical activity - spend \<60 minutes/day outdoors or \<2.5 hrs per week in moderate or vigorous physical activity OR spend \<60 minutes a day in moderate or vigorous intensity aerobic activity; OR * Engage in any T.V., small screen/video game recreation (\> 2 hours/day) Exclusion Criteria: * opioid/methamphetamine drug use (2 times or more in past month) * allergic reactions to food (e.g. peanuts), plant (poison oak or ivy) or insects (e.g. bees, fire ants) that caused difficulty in breathing or necessitated hospitalization or caused an anaphylactic reaction * disability that prevents student from walking or from engaging in exercise * aggressive, violent, combative or inappropriate behaviors * inability to follow directions * psychotic symptoms

Study sites (2)

OK

WA