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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Activity; Parenting; Healthy Diet; Primary Schoolchildren; Sedentary Behavior; Parents
• Interventions: Behavioral: Movie Models

• Registration Number: NCT02278809
• Lead Sponsor: University Ghent

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-12
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2014-10
• Study First Submitted: 2014-10-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-10-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-10-29
• Study First Posted: 2014-10-30
• Last Update Posted: 2014-10-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 207

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

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
intervention group	Movie Models	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sara De Lepeleere; 🇧🇪 Ghent, Belgium