Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health

Description

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.

Conditions

Obesity, Adolescent, Healthy Nutrition, Sedentary Behavior, Drug Abuse

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Study overview

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.

Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health

Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health

Condition
Obesity, Adolescent
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Talihina

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Talihina, Oklahoma, United States, 74571

Seattle

University of Washington, IWRI, School of Social Work, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Be enrolled in Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO)
  • * Live within CNO tribal region for 12 months
  • * 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)
  • * 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

Ages Eligible for Study

12 Years to 19 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Washington,

Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Washington

Study Record Dates

2027-04-30