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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12618001148268

Ethics application status

Approved

Date submitted

1/07/2018

Date registered

12/07/2018

Date last updated

9/07/2019

Date data sharing statement initially provided

9/07/2019

Type of registration

Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

Increasing uptake of the NSW Government’s Active Kids Voucher

Scientific title

Increasing uptake of the NSW Government’s Active Kids Voucher: a cluster randomised control trial.

Secondary ID [1]

None

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

Trial acronym

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

Obesity

Physical inactivity

Condition category

Condition code

Public Health

Health promotion/education

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Interventional

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

The intervention will seek to increase the redemption (uptake), by parents, of children attending intervention schools, of the NSW Government’s Active Kids Voucher.
The intervention is designed to be able to be delivered at scale, across an entire region, hence the intervention involves partnering with a third party school app provider - Skoolbag. Skoolbag is an app commonly used by schools to provide a communication platform between school administration and parents. Parents can download the app for free and the school can communicate school events, documentation and messages in a simple, easy to use way. The Skoolbag app will be used to send notifications to parents aimed at increasing uptake of the Active Kids Voucher.

Notifications of no more than 200 characters will be sent to parents via the Skoolbag app, one per month over 10 months. An example notification is below;
Thinking about getting your kids active? It’s easy. Access the $100 Active Kids Voucher and find a registered activity provider today: http://bit.ly/2DKbAMs

Intervention uptake will be monitored through Skoolbag via; i) viewing rates of push notifications; and ii) open rates of intervention content.

Intervention code [1]

Behaviour

Intervention code [2]

Prevention

Comparator / control treatment

The delivery of all intervention components will be controlled by the research team and will not be provided to control group schools. During the trial period, parents of children attending control schools, will potentially be exposed to the rebate voucher through usual interaction as part of health service delivery and through Government and sporting club advertising and marketing. Exposure to such will be collected by the research team during the follow-up survey with parents.

Control group

Active

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

The proportion of parents who report, via a telephone survey, downloading an Active Kids Voucher for their child.

Timepoint [1]

Follow-up - primary endpoint (6mths).

Primary outcome [2]

The proportion of parents who report, via a telephone survey, redeeming the Active Kids Voucher through a registered sporting group/club.

Timepoint [2]

Follow-up - primary endpoint (6mths).

Secondary outcome [1]

The number of parents who report their child commenced a new or additional sport or activity, using the Active Kids Voucher that they had not done previously.

Timepoint [1]

Follow-up (6mths).

Secondary outcome [2]

The type of organised and individual sports taken up using the Active Kids Voucher will be assessed via a study-specific parent telephone survey.

Timepoint [2]

Follow-up (6mths).

Secondary outcome [3]

Child physical activity outside of school hours will be assessed via a study-specific parent telephone survey.

Timepoint [3]

Follow-up (6mths).

Secondary outcome [4]

Child time spent participating in the sport/activity using the Active Kids Voucher will be assessed via a study-specific parent telephone survey.

Timepoint [4]

Follow-up (6mths).

Secondary outcome [5]

Child well-being will be assessed using the Peds QL parent report questionnaire for children (ages 8-12 year) via a parent telephone survey. Child physical functioning, emotional functioning, social functioning and school functioning will assessed as part of this survey.

Timepoint [5]

Follow-up (6mths).

Eligibility

Key inclusion criteria

A random sample of Catholic Primary Schools within the Hunter New England Local Health District of NSW, that currenlty use the Skoolbag app as a communicaiton platform with parents.

Minimum age

5 Years

Maximum age

12 Years

Sex

Both males and females

Can healthy volunteers participate?

Yes

Key exclusion criteria

Schools that do not use the Skoolbag app. Goverment or other Independent schools.

Study design

Purpose of the study

Prevention

Allocation to intervention

Randomised controlled trial

Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)

Parents not informed of the experimental manipulation.

Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)

Masking / blinding

Who is / are masked / blinded?

Intervention assignment

Parallel

Other design features

Sample recruited from an existing cohort of parents of children that participated in a separate randomised control trial to improve school lunchbox contents and physical activity levels of children (ACTRN12616001228471).

Phase

Not Applicable

Type of endpoint/s

Efficacy

Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment

Recruitment status

Completed

Date of first participant enrolment

Anticipated

16/07/2018

Actual

16/07/2018

Date of last participant enrolment

Anticipated

20/07/2018

Actual

20/07/2018

Date of last data collection

Anticipated

30/06/2019

Actual

19/12/2018

Sample size

Target

Accrual to date

Final

Recruitment in Australia

Recruitment state(s)

NSW

Funding & Sponsors

Funding source category [1]

Charities/Societies/Foundations

Name [1]

Cancer Council

Address [1]

Level 14, 477 Pitt Street, Sydney. NSW 2000.

Country [1]

Australia

Primary sponsor type

University

Name

University of Newcastle

Address

University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308

Country

Australia

Secondary sponsor category [1]

None

Name [1]

Address [1]

Country [1]

Ethics approval

Ethics application status

Approved

Ethics committee name [1]

Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee

Ethics committee address [1]

Hunter New England Research Ethics & Governance Office
Locked Bag No 1
HRMC NSW 2310

Ethics committee country [1]

Australia

Date submitted for ethics approval [1]

Approval date [1]

07/03/2018

Ethics approval number [1]

Summary

Brief summary

The NSW Government’s Active Kids Voucher is a program designed to help families meet the cost of getting their kids into sport and active fitness and recreation activities. The initiative aims to reduce barriers to participation and help change the physical activity behaviours of children and young people in NSW. The NSW Government will provide a $100 voucher to parents/guardians of school enrolled children aged 4.5 to 18 years’ old. The $100 voucher can be used for registration and participation costs for sport and fitness activities and will not be means tested. One voucher will be available for every child in the family annually over the next four years and there will be no limits on the number of applications per family, as long as every child is enrolled in school.
From 31 January 2018, parents/guardians/carers with legal responsibility of an eligible child resident in NSW will be able to download a voucher from an online platform, run by Service NSW. Vouchers are valid for redemption in the current calendar year and will expire at the end of each calendar year.
The Active Kids Voucher is an opportunity to increase physical activity of children and will therefore be promoted to all schools within the HNE region during usual interaction with schools as part of health service delivery. The identification of strategies to increase the uptake and advantages of the program, are also warranted. 
The primary aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of promoting the Active Kids Voucher program to parents using a school based mobile communication platform on voucher redemption. The study will employ a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) design including six intervetnion and six control schools. The intervention involves partnering with a third party school app provider - Skoolbag. Skoolbag is an app commonly used by schools to provide a communication platform between school administration and parents. Parents can download the app for free and the school can communicate school events, documentation and messages in a simple, easy to use way. The Skoolbag app will be used to send notifications to parents aimed at increasing uptake of the Active Kids Voucher. 
The effectiveness of the intervention will be determined by comparing post intervention differences between uptake and redemption of the Active Kids Voucher. The proposed research will be one of the first RCTs of its kind and addresses questions of particular policy relevance.

Trial website

Trial related presentations / publications

Public notes

Contacts

Principal investigator

Name

Ms Kathryn Reilly

Address

Hunter New England Population Health
Longworth Ave Wallsend NSW 2287

Country

Australia

Phone

+61 249 246 474

Fax

kathryn.reilly@health.nsw.gov.au

Contact person for public queries

Name

Kathryn Reilly

Address

Hunter New England Population Health
Longworth Ave Wallsend NSW 2287

Country

Australia

Phone

+61 249 246 474

Fax

kathryn.reilly@health.nsw.gov.au

Contact person for scientific queries

Name

Luke Wolfenden

Address

Hunter New England Population Health
Longworth Ave Wallsend NSW 2287

Country

Australia

Phone

+61 249 246 567

Fax

luke.wolfenden@health.nsw.gov.au

Data sharing statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) for this trial be available (including data dictionaries)?

No/undecided IPD sharing reason/comment

There is no ethics approval to share individual participant data.

What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided

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