NCT05880901Active, not recruitingPhase 2
Healthy Kids Beyond the Bell: Investigating the Impact of After-School and Summer Programs
Increasing Low-income Children's Access to Healthy Structured Programming to Reduce Obesity
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Nearly one in five children are obese, and disparities in overweight and obesity between children from low- and middle-to-high-income households persist despite a multitude of school-based interventions. The structured days hypothesis posits that structure within a school day plays a protective role for children against obesogenic behaviors, and, ultimately, prevents the occurrence of excessive weight gain, thus, past school-based efforts are misplaced. This study will provide access to healthy structured programming via vouchers to afterschool programs and summer day camps during two "windows of vulnerability" (ie afterschool and summer) for low-income children.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 480 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 17 May 2023
- Start date
- 1 Mar 2024
- Primary completion date
- 31 Mar 2028
- Lead sponsor
- University of South Carolina
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05880901
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 480
- From 1 Mar 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 Mar 2028
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Diagnosis of an intellectual disability, such as Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Fetal Alcohol
Other
- a physical disability, such as wheelchair use, that prevents the ability to ambulate without assistance.
- Families who plan to enroll their children in a summer camp or after school program or relocate (i.e., move) during the 14-month period that they participate
Who the study is looking for
- k-4th grader in a partner school
- eligible for free and reduced price lunch (a widely recognized indicator of
- socioeconomic level and poverty status)
- parent that indicates "yes' on an informed consent document for participation in the study
Age in the registry: 5 years to 12 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Unknown status |
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