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NCT05880901
Healthy Kids Beyond the Bell: Investigating the Impact of After-School and Summer Programs
Phase 2 trial testing After school program in Health Status Disparities in 480 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 March 2028
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of South Carolina |
|---|---|
| Phase | Phase 2 |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | factorial |
| Masking | double |
| Primary purpose | prevention |
| Enrollment | 480 |
| Start date | 1 March 2024 |
| Primary completion | 31 March 2028 |
| Estimated completion | 31 August 2028 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- After school program
- Summer day camp
Conditions studied
- Health Status Disparities — all drugs for Health Status Disparities →
- Pediatric Obesity — all drugs for Pediatric Obesity →
- Ethnic Group — all drugs for Ethnic Group →
- Socioeconomic Factors — all drugs for Socioeconomic Factors →
Sponsor
University of South Carolina
Who can join
Adults 5 to 12, any sex, with Health Status Disparities or Pediatric Obesity. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
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.
Publications & conference data
3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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“I feel better as a parent” – summer programs help support children’s health behaviors and parent wellbeing
Eglitis EK, Savidge M, Adams EL, Beets MW, et al · · 2026 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9125988/v1 -
Rationale and design of Healthy Kids Beyond the Bell: a 2x2 full factorial study evaluating the impact of summer and after-school programming on children's body mass index and health behaviors.
Weaver RG, Beets MW, Adams EL, Kaczynski AT, et al · · 2024 · PMID 39449089 · DOI 10.1186/s13063-024-08555-2 -
Rationale and design of Healthy Kids Beyond the Bell: A 2x2 full factorial study evaluating the impact of summer and after school programming on children’s body mass index and health behaviors.
Weaver RG, Beets MW, Adams EL, Kaczynski AT, et al · · 2024 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4958972/v1
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- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05880901 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of South Carolina
- Last refreshed: 12 March 2024
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