A brief intervention to increase child physical activity levels in childcare: the Everybody Energise trial

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Physical activity; Public Health - Health promotion/education

• Registration Number: ACTRN12619000042145
• Lead Sponsor: Hunter New England Population Health

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-01-14
• Last Update Posted: 28 January 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 420

Inclusion Criteria

Centre-based childcare services (long day care services and preschools)
To be eligible to participate in the trial, services will be located in the Hunter region of NSW, Australia and will be required to have a daily enrolment of least 40 children aged between 3 to 6 years.

Parents
For parents to be eligible to participate in the trial, they must have at least one child aged 3 to 6 years attending the childcare service on at least one day of the designated data collection period.

Children
For children within the service to be eligible to participate in the trial, they must be aged 3 to 6 years, have parental consent and attend childcare on at least one day of the designated data collection period.

Exclusion Criteria

Centre-based childcare services (long day care services and preschools)
Services catering solely for special needs populations will be excluded from participating in the trial, as will services already implementing daily energisers. NSW Department of Education and Communities services will also be excluded, together with services currently participating in alternate trials aiming to improve nutrition and/or physical activity.

Children
Children with an intellectual or physical impairment that may impact on their physical activity capacity or prevent them from complying with data collection protocols will be excluded from participating in the trial.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Minutes children spend in moderate to vigorous physical activity from the time that children arrive at care until 3pm (the time where majority of children are in care), assessed via accelerometer using recommended cut-points. Accelerometer data will be collected on three consecutive days over one week.[At baseline and at the end of the intervention period (approximately six months following baseline).]