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NCT Number: NCT02278809

Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Schoolchildren: an Online Video Intervention for Parents

1. Development of a method for parents of primary schoolchildren to teach parents parenting skills to obtain health gain in the family through videos and online feedback. 2. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology. 3. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.

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Key information

Conditions

Physical Activity Behavior Healthy Diet Motor Activity Parenting Parents Primary Schoolchildren Sedentary Behavior

Age range

18 year–70 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Sara De Lepeleere

Ghent, 9000, Belgium

About this study

The current project aims to develop, test and implement online videos to teach effective parenting skills to parents of primary schoolchildren. This way we want to achieve health profit by stimulating PA en healthy diet, and reducing SB in children. The online videos, based on existing literature and focus group research, show parents via modeling how they can react in difficult parenting situations related to PA, SB and healthy diet. In the current study, these videos will first be tested in an effect and process evaluation study. 300 families with at least one primary schoolchild will be recruited and randomized into an intervention/control group. By using a survey at the pre-, post- and follow-up test, we will examine if parenting practices become more effective, if related parental self-efficacy enhances and if children perform more healthy behaviors after their parents watched the videos.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • having at least one primary schoolchild
  • having a computer at home with internet access

Exclusion criteria

  • primary schoolchild is on diet
  • primary schoolchild has a physical disability which causes problems to move/sport
  • being younger than 18 or older than 70
  • having no internet access

Treatment and study plan

Movie Models

Behavioral

The intervention group got acces to a private website for 4 weeks on which the online videos were placed (Week 1: fruit + water, week 2: vegetables + breakfast + supermarket, week 3: PA, week 4: SB)

After each week, parents received a link for an online process evaluation questionnaire in which we asked how many times they watched each video, if they discussed the videos with other people, if they found them interesting, boring…

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months

    Time frame: After 1 and 4 months

  2. Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months

    Time frame: After 1 and 4 months

  3. Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months

    Time frame: After 1 and 4 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months

    Time frame: After 1 and 4 months

  2. Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months

    Time frame: After 1 and 4 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Ghent

Other

Collaborators

  • Flemish Agency for Care and Health
  • Research Foundation Flanders

Registry information

Official study title

Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Primary Schoolchildren: Evaluation and Implementation of an Online Video Intervention for Parents

Acronym: Movie Models

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Oct 30, 2014
Registry last updated
Oct 30, 2014

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