Parenting Practices Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Good Start Matters for Parents and Children: An mHealth Parenting Intervention to Promote a Healthy Child Development
Early childhood is an important period where the family can support the development and maintenance of healthy eating and active behaviors to prevent or reduce childhood obesity. With this ultimate goal, we designed the Good Start Matters - Parenting program, which aims to engage families in positive parenting practices that support healthy child behaviors, and aim to evaluate the efficacy of this intervention with a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). The Good Start Matters - Parenting program is a 2-month mobile-Health (mHealth) parenting intervention which promote positive parenting (primary outcome) and support children's healthy nutrition, physical activity, and decrease screen-time (secondary outcomes).
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 118 |
Est. completion date | April 2, 2025 |
Est. primary completion date | April 1, 2025 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 30 Months to 5 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: Children must be: - Attending a childcare center invited to participate in the Good Start Matters study. - Aged 2.5 to 5 years Parents must: - Be the primary caregiver/legal guardian of an eligible child OR share childrearing responsibilities with an already enrolled primary caregiver/legal guardian of an eligible child - Be fluent in English - Have a cellphone number and smartphone device where they can receive text messages and download and access the app Exclusion Criteria: Parents and children: - Currently participating in a pediatric weight management program or in a nutritional program are not eligible. Children: - With severe dietary restrictions that limit their ability to follow general nutritional guidelines for 2.5-5-year-olds are not eligible. - With severe physical limitations that limit their ability to follow general movement behavior guidelines for 2.5-5-year-olds are not eligible. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Canada | University of British Columbia / BC Children's Hospital Research Institute | Vancouver | British Columbia |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of British Columbia | BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in Parenting practices (parent outcome) | Questions adapted from the "Food and Physical Activity Item Banks" (Masse et al 2020) to specifically assess parenting practices related to food, physical activity and screen time. The scale ranges from 1-5 in most items, and higher scores indicate greater endorsement of each parenting practice. | Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention) | |
Secondary | Change in Co-Parenting practices (parent outcome) | Questions adapted from the "Coparenting Relationship Scale" from Feinberg et al (2012) to measure co-parenting agreement specifically regarding the child eating and movement behaviors. The scale ranges from 1-4 and all items will be coded in the same direction to have greater scores representing greater coparenting agreement. | Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention) | |
Secondary | Change in Eating and dietary behaviors (child outcome) | Questions from the "Children´s Eating Behaviors Questionnaire" (CEBQ) (Wardle et al, 2001), questions based on "Canada´s Food Guide" recommendations, and questions created for the current study to assess a variety of children´s eating behaviors around food (e.g., fussiness, emotional overeating) and intake of key food markers (e.g., vegetables, fruits, sugary drinks). Specifically for the CEBQ scale, response options range from 1-5, and all items will be recoded in the same direction to have greater scores representing greater frequency of each child behavior. | Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention) | |
Secondary | Change in Physical activity (child outcome) | Questions adapted from Burdette et al. (2004) to examine child physical activity through active play and outdoor play. Greater scores indicate greater active play and outdoor play time. | Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention) | |
Secondary | Change in Screen time (child outcome) | Questions created for this study to examine children's time in front of screens. Greater scores indicate greater screen time. | Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention) |
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