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Registration number
ACTRN12625000715471
Ethics application status
Approved
Date submitted
5/06/2025
Date registered
7/07/2025
Date last updated
7/07/2025
Date data sharing statement initially provided
7/07/2025
Type of registration
Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs
Public title
A culturally-tailored physical activity intervention for mothers and their adolescent daughters: Ummah Moves
Scientific title
The feasibility and acceptability of a culturally tailored mother-daughter physical activity intervention: Ummah Moves.
Secondary ID [1] 314459 0
Nil
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Physical inactivity 337493 0
Condition category
Condition code
Public Health 333859 333859 0 0
Health promotion/education

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
The study is designed to test the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored physical activity intervention for mothers and their adolescent daughters from a Middle Eastern background and of Islamic faith. To ensure that this intervention is culturally appropriate and acceptable for this population, the culturally-tailoring process of this intervention was informed by formative research and input from key stakeholders (i.e., a community liaison officer, chief project officer, personal trainer, and a mother adolescent daughter duo) of a similar cultural background.

Participants (mothers and their adolescent daughters) will attend 8 face-to-face group-based sessions scheduled on a weekly basis. Each session will last 90 minutes in duration and include educational and practical physical activity sessions. Educational sessions for the intervention will be conducted with the whole group and will include a combination of lectures, group discussions, and mother-daughter partner activities. Topics covered will include: an overview of physical activity (e.g., definition, benefits, recommended guidelines), navigating cultural expectations, barriers and facilitators, social perceptions (e.g., around modesty), muscle strengthening activities, family and community support. The physical activity sessions will include activities with the whole group (e.g., Zumba) and smaller partner activities (e.g., circuit training, body weight exercises). The activities will be of moderate-vigorous intensity accommodating to all fitness and skill levels and will include culturally-relevant forms of physical activity.

The intervention will take place at Amity College Prestons campus (Sydney, Australia) and the sessions will be facilitated by a PhD candidate, who is a Masters-level qualified Health and Physical Education teacher. Each session will target a maximum of 30 mother–daughter dyads (a maximum of 60 participants in total). Adherence to the intervention will be monitored using session attendance checklists.

Semi-structured focus groups will be conducted to explore participants’ experiences with the program, focusing on its acceptability, perceived challenges, facilitators to participation, and suggestions for improvement. Separate groups will be held for daughters and mothers to allow for open and comfortable discussions. Open-ended questions from the process evaluation questionnaire will further capture detailed participant feedback.
Mothers and daughters enrolled in the intervention will be invited to participate. A maximum of 30 mothers and 30 daughters may be invited, with individual focus groups capped at approximately 8–10 participants each. The focus groups will be conducted by the principal investigator and trained female research assistants. All participants will be invited to take part. There will be no selection criteria or exclusion; participation will be open to all who express interest.
Intervention code [1] 331080 0
Lifestyle
Intervention code [2] 331081 0
Behaviour
Comparator / control treatment
No control group
Control group
Uncontrolled

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 341482 0
Recruitment rates
Timepoint [1] 341482 0
Immediately post-program (8 weeks)
Primary outcome [2] 341483 0
Acceptability of the intervention among mothers.
Timepoint [2] 341483 0
Immediately post-intervention (8 weeks)
Primary outcome [3] 341584 0
Program satisfaction
Timepoint [3] 341584 0
Immediately post-intervention (8 weeks)
Secondary outcome [1] 447994 0
Physical activity
Timepoint [1] 447994 0
Baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks)
Secondary outcome [2] 447996 0
Session attendance
Timepoint [2] 447996 0
Ongoing throughout the intervention.
Secondary outcome [3] 448770 0
Retention rates (Primary outcome)
Timepoint [3] 448770 0
Immediately post-program (8 weeks)
Secondary outcome [4] 448771 0
Acceptability of the intervention among adolescent daughters (Primary outcome)
Timepoint [4] 448771 0
Immediately post-intervention (8 weeks)

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
This study will be recruiting mother-daughter dyads.

Mother/ Female caregivers:
- Willing and able to attend a physical activity program at Amity College Prestons Campus for an 8-week period (including baseline and end of intervention data collection)
- From a Middle Eastern background
- From an Islamic faith
- Have a female child aged 12-15 years
- Mother/ female caregiver must also be capable of partaking in moderate-intensity physical activity.

Adolescent Girls:
- Willing and able to attend a physical activity program at Amity College Prestons Campus for a 8-weeks period (including baseline and end of intervention data collection)
- From a Middle Eastern background
- From an Islamic faith
- Have a mother/ female caregiver willing to participate in the program.
- Adolescent and female adult participant must also be capable of partaking in moderate-intensity physical activity.
Minimum age
12 Years
Maximum age
64 Years
Sex
Females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
Yes
Key exclusion criteria
Participants who cannot participate in moderate intensity physical activity, not willing to commute to the location, or have a physical or intellectual disability and have not been cleared by a GP to participate in the program, will be excluded.

Further, participants who do not pass the pre-exercise health screening questionnaire and do not provide GP clearance will be excluded from participating in physical activity.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Prevention
Allocation to intervention
Non-randomised trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Not Applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Efficacy
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Not yet recruiting
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
7/07/2025
Actual
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
30
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW

Funding & Sponsors
Funding source category [1] 318997 0
University
Name [1] 318997 0
Western Sydney University
Country [1] 318997 0
Australia
Primary sponsor type
University
Name
Western Sydney University
Address
Country
Australia
Secondary sponsor category [1] 321464 0
None
Name [1] 321464 0
Address [1] 321464 0
Country [1] 321464 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status
Approved
Ethics committee name [1] 317610 0
University of Western Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee
Ethics committee address [1] 317610 0
Ethics committee country [1] 317610 0
Australia
Date submitted for ethics approval [1] 317610 0
30/01/2025
Approval date [1] 317610 0
26/06/2025
Ethics approval number [1] 317610 0

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 141554 0
Ms Nariman Dennaoui
Address 141554 0
Western Sydney University, School of Health Sciences, Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751
Country 141554 0
Australia
Phone 141554 0
+61 2 4736 0052
Fax 141554 0
Email 141554 0
[email protected]
Contact person for public queries
Name 141555 0
Associate Professor Emma George
Address 141555 0
Western Sydney University, School of Health Sciences, Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751
Country 141555 0
Australia
Phone 141555 0
+61 2 4736 0052
Fax 141555 0
Email 141555 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries
Name 141556 0
Associate Professor Emma George
Address 141556 0
Western Sydney University, School of Health Sciences, Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751
Country 141556 0
Australia
Phone 141556 0
+61 2 4736 0052
Fax 141556 0
Email 141556 0
[email protected]

Data sharing statement
Will the study consider sharing individual participant data?
No


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