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NCT Number: NCT05436197

The Expansion of a Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood Called PLAYshop

The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention, that can help mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity of children from diverse and vulnerable families who have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Primary Research Question: Among vulnerable families (e.g., lower socioeconomic status), does the PLAYshop program increase parental capability, opportunity, and motivation to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development, compared to controls?

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Key information

Conditions

Motor Activity Behavior Child Development Parent-Child Relations

Age range

3 year–5 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation

Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H9, Canada

About this study

The overall objective of this study is to generate evidence for the efficacy of the PLAYshop program in diverse and vulnerable populations, such as families of lower socioeconomic status, who have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Research Questions:

Primary: Among vulnerable families (e.g., lower socioeconomic status), does the PLAYshop program increase parental capability, opportunity, and motivation to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development, compared to controls? Secondary: What is the level of, and factors that influence, implementation at the family and program delivery level when working with vulnerable families? Tertiary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls?

Hypothesis for the primary research question: Increases in parental outcomes, including capability, opportunity, and motivation, will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Parents of children aged 3 to 5 years who live in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and meet at least one of the following criteria:
  • Statistics Canada's low income before tax cut-off based on household size and the population of the municipality they live in
  • have an education level below a bachelor's degree (participating parent)
  • are unemployed (participating parent)
  • are a single adult in their household
  • are connected with an agency partner that supports vulnerable populations
  • Research staff and any organization partners who lead the workshop

Exclusion criteria

  • Parents:
  • who do not have internet access to complete the questionnaires and join the virtual workshop. This includes access to a device such as a smartphone, tablet, or laptop/computer and a data plan or WIFI.
  • who are not comfortable reading, writing, speaking and listening to at least one the following languages: English, Spanish, Farsi, Mandarin (Simplified Chinese), or Cantonese (Traditional Chinese).
  • that have participated in prior PLAYshop pilot and feasibility trials

Treatment and study plan

PLAYshop Program

Behavioral

The intervention includes: 1. Educational Training - the 60 min virtual/hybrid workshop will be delivered by a trained facilitator. Parents will be introduced to physical literacy via education, group discussion, and active participation in fundamental movement skills (FMS) based activities with their child. 2. Distribution of Education Resources- Parents will be provided with physical literacy and physical activity printed resources. 3. Material resources -parents will also be provided a bag of inexpensive active play equipment (e.g., ball, bean bag, balloons). 4. Provide Follow-up Support- After the workshop, participants will gain access to an app with an online toolkit including new active play ideas, tips, and equipment they can make at home for active play. Additionally, participants will receive four bi-weekly booster lessons that include key workshop messages, support and encouragement for parents, reflection and check-in questions, and new activities to try with their child.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in parents' capability to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development

    Time frame: Baseline (all), immediately after workshop (intervention), one week after baseline (control)

    Parental capability (i.e., knowledge), will be assessed via a parental questionnaire. This scale includes 9 items with values of 1-5; higher values mean more capability.

  2. Change in parents' opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development

    Time frame: Baseline (all), immediately after workshop (intervention), one week after baseline (control)

    Parental opportunity (e.g., perceived availability of resources (1 item), perceived barriers (5 items)) will be assessed via a parental questionnaire. Items have values of 1-5; higher values mean less parental opportunity. Citation for perceived barriers: Heitzler et al., 2006

  3. Change in parents' motivation to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development

    Time frame: Baseline (all), immediately after workshop (intervention), one week after baseline (control)

    Parental motivation (i.e., confidence (11 items), beliefs (4 items), outcome expectations (3 items), intentions (2 items), perceived behavioural control (4 items)) will be assessed via a parental questionnaire. Citation for beliefs and outcome expectations: Heitzler et al., 2006. Items have values of 1-5; higher values mean more parental motivation.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Implementation: satisfaction and perceived usefulness (questionnaire)

    Time frame: Intervention group: Immediately after the workshop

    Satisfaction and perceived usefulness of the intervention will be assessed via a parental questionnaire in the intervention group only. This scale includes 3 items with values of 1-5; higher values mean more satisfaction and perceived usefulness.

  2. Implementation: satisfaction and perceived usefulness (parental interview)

    Time frame: Intervention group: 2-month follow-up

    Satisfaction and perceived usefulness of the intervention will also be explored via brief semi-structured interviews with parents from the intervention group.

  3. Implementation: facilitators and barriers (parental interview)

    Time frame: Intervention group: 2-month follow-up

    Implementation facilitators and barriers will be explored via brief semi-structured interviews with parents from the intervention group.

  4. Implementation: facilitators and barriers (workshop leader interview)

    Time frame: At study completion, approximately 1 year from first workshop.

    Implementation facilitators and barriers will be explored via brief semi-structured interviews with workshop leaders.

  5. Implementation: dose (parental interview)

    Time frame: Intervention group: 2-month follow-up

    The dose of the intervention will be explored via brief semi-structured interviews with parents from the intervention group.

  6. Implementation: dose (app check-in questions)

    Time frame: Intervention group: Bi-weekly after workshop (i.e., 1, 3, 5, and 7 weeks)

    The dose of the intervention will be assessed via check-in questions as part of the booster lessons in the intervention group.

  7. Implementation: dose (app usage data)

    Time frame: Intervention group: 2-month follow-up

    The dose of the intervention will be assessed via tracking of app usage in the intervention group.

Other outcomes

  1. Change in children's motivation and enjoyment

    Time frame: Baseline (all), immediately after workshop (intervention), one week after baseline (control)

    Children's motivation and enjoyment will be assessed via a parental questionnaire that includes items from the Preschool Physical Literacy Assessment (Pre PLAy). This scale includes 4 items with values of 1-5; higher values mean more motivation and enjoyment. Citation: Cairney et al. (2018)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Alberta

Other

Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
  • University of Victoria

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Jun 29, 2022
Registry last updated
Dec 11, 2024

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