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None of the analyses suggested that "dose" of public commitment activities significantly impacted study outcomes.
Without such a vision and political commitment, activities will not move beyond pilot program status.
We found that the intervention had a significant effect on the prevalence of obesity within the group that participated in public commitment activities, although there was no intervention effect within the group that did not participate in public commitment activities.
Finally, to examine the relationship between greater involvement in public commitment activities and improved anthropometric and health behavior outcomes, we totaled the number of semesters that each intervention student participated in any public commitment activities.
Within the intervention schools, the group not participating in public commitment activities were nearly as likely to be obese (≥ 95th BMI percentile) as the control group.
Future studies may want to examine the impact of the various types of public commitment activities separately (e.g., peer leadership and student-generated media).
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Thirty six percent of consented students in intervention schools participated in some form of public commitment activity (the PC group), with approximately equal numbers participating in SPC activities (13.8%) and SGM activities (13.5%) and a smaller proportion participating in both (8.9%).
MIT Hillel's response is to combat students' busy schedules with a mix of consistency, community, and low-commitment activities.
While conceivably a study design (however cost-prohibitive) could randomly assign students to public-commitment activities, we suspect that the voluntary nature of this undertaking is important and perhaps inherent to its success.
A user downloads the app to their phones, which is a high-commitment activity.
These students are identified by their extraordinary commitment to activities such as those facilitated by the Duke Center for Civic Engagement, including DukeEngage.
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