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

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

— Movie Models  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02278809
• Other study ID #: B670201214212
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 28, 2014
• Last updated: October 29, 2014
• Start date: December 2013
• Est. completion date: June 2014

Study information

• Verified date: October 2014
• Source: University Ghent
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Belgium: Flemish Agency for Care and Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Description:

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 207
• Est. completion date: June 2014
• Est. primary completion date: June 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

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

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Movie Models
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…

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Sara De Lepeleere	Ghent

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Ghent	Flemish Agency for Care and Health, Research Foundation Flanders

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months		After 1 and 4 months	No
Primary	Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months		After 1 and 4 months	No
Primary	Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months		After 1 and 4 months	No
Secondary	Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months		After 1 and 4 months	No
Secondary	Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months		After 1 and 4 months	No