This study was designed and delivered in collaboration with the Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration, a UKCRC-registered Clinical Trials Unit, which, as part of the Bristol Trials Centre, is in receipt of NIHR Clinical Trials Unit support funding. The work was undertaken with the support of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence.
Costs of delivering the intervention were covered by the local authorities where the schools were based.
The sponsor of this study is Research and Enterprise Development, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (www.bristol.ac.uk/red/).
We would like to thank the members of the Local Advisory Group, including Nick Bolton, Healthy Schools and Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) support, Wiltshire Council; Sarah Godsell, Partnership Officer, South Gloucestershire Council; and Cherry Kraus, Partnership Manager, Ashton Park School Sport Partnership. We would like to extend our gratitude to the members of the TSC: Professor Peymane Adab (chairperson), University of Birmingham; Professor Marie Murphy, Ulster University; Dr Rebecca Playle, Cardiff University; and Ms Justine Womack, Public Health England Southwest. A special thank you goes to the TAs, school staff, child participants and parents for their involvement in the study.
Contributions of authors
Russell Jago (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3394-0176) (Professor of Paediatric Physical Activity and Public Health) was the principal investigator on the grant funding the work and Simon J Sebire (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7994-0844) (Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity and Public Health), Chris Metcalfe (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8318-8907) (Professor of Medical Statistics) and Jane E Powell (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1828-1184) (Professor of Public Health Economics) were co-applicants.
Russell Jago, Byron Tibbitts (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5818-7080) (Senior Research Associate, Trial Manager) and Alice Porter (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5281-7694) (Field Worker) wrote the first draft of the report.
Byron Tibbitts and Alice Porter were responsible for the process evaluation and completed the first drafts of the process evaluation chapter, with support from Simon Sebire. Byron Tibbitts and Alice Porter collected all process evaluation data including conducting interviews and focus groups. Byron Tibbitts, Alice Porter, Russell Jago and Simon Sebire analysed the qualitative process evaluation data.
Chris Metcalfe and Emily Sanderson (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2268-4194) (Research Associate in Medial Statistics) led the statistical analyses and reporting of the trial and served as the main links to the Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration.
Jane E Powell and Emma Bird (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9603-3434) (Senior Lecturer in Public Health) were responsible for the economic evaluation design and analyses and completed the first draft of the economic evaluation chapter.
All authors made contributions to sections of the report and critical comments on drafts of the monograph and approved the final submission.
Publications
Tibbitts B, Porter A, Sebire SJ, Metcalfe C, Bird E, Powell E, Jago R. Action 3:30R: protocol for a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8- to 10-year-olds. Pilot Feasibility Stud 2017;3:69.
Jago R, Tibbitts B, Sanderson E, Bird EL, Porter A, Metcalfe C, et al. Action 3:30R: results of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019;16.
Tibbitts B, Porter A, Sebire SJ, Bird EL, Sanderson E, Metcalfe C, et al. Action 3:30R: process evaluation of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds. BMC Public Health 2019;19:1111.
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Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PHR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PHR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.