PLAYshop: A Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood

Child Development Clinical Trial

Official title: PLAYshop: A Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention designed to address this major public health issue of childhood physical inactivity and to support families.

Primary Research Question: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls?

Clinical Trial Description

The overall goal for the proposed study is to examine the efficacy of the PLAYshop program, a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention, on child- and family-specific outcomes.

Research Questions:

Primary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls? Secondary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical activity and co-participation in physical activity with parents, compared to controls? Tertiary: 1) Does the PLAYshop program increase parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development, compared to controls? 2) What is the level of, and factors that influence, implementation at the family and program delivery level?

Hypotheses:

Increases in preschool-aged children's fundamental movement skills, motivation and enjoyment, physical activity, and parent-child co-participation in physical activity will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group. Additionally, increase in parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Development
• Motor Activity
• Parent-Child Relations

• NCT number: NCT05255250
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Alberta
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 24, 2022
• Completion date: March 30, 2025