All in the Family: Promoting Family Function Through Physical Activity

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

— SSHRC-Family  

Official title:

All in the Family: Promoting Family Function Through Physical Activity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06098716
• Other study ID #: 435-2023-0493
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 15, 2024
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2028

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: University of Victoria
• Contact: Sandy Courtnall
• Phone: 250 472 5288
• Email: bml[@]uvic.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

While the primary aim is to improve family functioning via child moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and parent-child co-physical activity (PA), the proposed driver of these outcomes is parental support of child PA. Most theoretical models applied to understand parental support in family interventions have been social cognitive in nature, where intention is considered the proximal antecedent to behavior, it is not surprising that past approaches in family PA promotion center heavily on the antecedents of intention such as attitudes and perceived control. Nevertheless, a low correlation between intention and behavior in parental support of child PA has been demonstrated Thus, there is a need to continue to improve the effectiveness of family-based interventions in ways to sustain initial behavioral changes. Family-based promotion initiatives are also very timely because parents and children represent low activity groups

Description:

The primary objective of this study is to test the efficacy of three Physical Activity (PA) parenting support promotion approaches on key family function outcomes (e.g., cohesion, organization) among parents of children who were not participating in regular PA at baseline of the study. The secondary objectives are to examine whether these approaches: 1) produce differences in child moderate-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and parent-child intergenerational PA, and 2) predict PA using the Multi-Process Action Control Framework (MPAC) augmented to include family social PA identity. Primary Question: Does 1) the promotion of a PA parenting identities+self-regulation skills+education (ID) increase family function outcomes (particularly family cohesion, and family organization) compared with 2) promotion of PA parenting self-regulation skills+education (SR), and 3) an education about PA control condition (ED)? Secondary Question: Does 1) the ID condition increase child moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) and parent-child co-PA compared with 2) the SR condition and 3) the ED condition? Hypothesis: The ID condition will show significantly larger changes in these PA outcomes compared to the two other conditions after six-months (primary end-point). Further, the SR condition will show significantly larger changes in PA outcomes compared to the ED condition after six-months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 165
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2028
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2028
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 10 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Participants will be at least one parent with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 10 years.

Families (parents and/or guardians and children) residing in Canada. Children that participate in <60 minutes/day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA

Exclusion Criteria:

If child is meeting the current physical activity guidelines >=60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day.

If participant does not pass Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Family Functioning
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Self Regulation
How to plan for Family PA
• Identity & Family functioning
Increasing self-identity to increase parental support of child PA & family functioning

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Victoria	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Increase family function outcomes	Family function will be assessed using FAD & FACES IV subscale = 1 = Strongly Disagree; 2 = Generally Disagree; 3 = Undecided; 4 = Generally Agree; 5 = Strongly Agree	Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months
Secondary	Change from baseline in children's moderate to vigorous physical activity to 6 months	Children's physical activity will be quantified by accelerometry.	Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months
Secondary	Parent-child intergenerational activity via seven-day accelerometry	Accelerometer model has a Bluetooth proximity detection feature that can determine the presence (e.g., same room in a house, at the park together) or absence of close proximity between two accelerometers. The outcome variable will be average minutes per day parents and children were both engaging in physical activity at the same time while in close proximity	Baseline - 6 months
Secondary	Parent-child intergenerational activity measured via parent self-report	For self-reported PA, the the Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire will be used.	Baseline - 6 months