Parents Together: Supporting Parents to Promote Healthy Behaviours in Children

Parenting Clinical Trial

Official title:

Parents Together: Supporting Parents to Promote Healthy Behaviours in Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06389084
• Other study ID #: 179939
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: The Hospital for Sick Children
• Contact: Catherine Birken, MD, MSc
• Phone: 416-813-7654
• Email: catherine.birken[@]sickkids.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The Parents Together trial aims to determine if the Parents Together program consisting of virtual parent group sessions and coaching calls, will result in better health outcomes for children. The program which is facilitated by a Public Health Nurse seeks to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours, help build strong family relationships, and promote child development and mental health.

Description:

This study will determine whether an intervention combining group-based parenting skills training and public health nurse coaching calls with a focus on healthy eating behaviours and nutrition, activity and sleep, compared to regular health care will lead to improved eating behaviours, movement behaviours, health and mental health in children aged 2-5 years and their caregivers.

Healthy children will be identified through primary care practices participating in The Applied Reearch Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!). Families who participate in this study will be randomly assigned to one of the two study groups that will run for 6-months:

Group A: Receive 8 weeks of group parenting education sessions and up to 4 public health nurse coaching calls. Group B: Receive regular health care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 128
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: March 31, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 5 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Child enrolled in the The Applied Reearch Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!) cohort study Family is able to participate in English

Exclusion Criteria:

Children with a sibling already enrolled in the study Children with severe developmental delay or disability

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Nutrition
• Early Child Development
• Parenting

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Parents Together parenting course
parenting course and coaching calls

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	The Hospital for Sick Children	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Hospital for Sick Children

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Child eating behaviours	Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Dietary intake and food environment	Parent reported measures of dietary intake, and food environment (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Nutritional risk	Nutrition Screeening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, Sleep Duration	Parent reported measures of physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep duration (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Physical activity	Parent reported measures of physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep duration (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Social and emotional development	Strengths and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Child development	Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 (ASQ-3)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Family psychosocial health	Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Parenting	Parenting Scale	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Parenting sense of competence	Parenting Sense of Competency Scale-Revised (PSOC-R	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	sociodemographic, maternal and child characteristics	parent self-reported income, maternal education, ethnicity, immigration status, and marital status, questions about parents health, exposures during pregnancy, family medical history (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	zBMI	Measure the difference in age and sex-standardized BMI z-score (zBMI) using child height and weight	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Waist circumference	Measure waist circumference using a tape measure	6 months post-randomization
Secondary	Blood pressure	Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children; Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children; Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children; Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children	6 months post-randomization