Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and potential impact of utilising a strategy to increase the sustainment of outdoor free play programs in early childhood education and care services.
- Conditions
- Physical InactivityObesityPublic Health - Health promotion/educationPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622001089729
- Lead Sponsor
- A/Professor Serene (Sze Lin) Yoong
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Early Childhood Education and Care services will be the primary participants in the trial. Services will be eligible to participate if they:
1. are in the NSW, Australia region
2. are a long day care or preschool service
3. report implementing indoor-outdoor free play routines for most of the day (i.e., defined as equal to or less than 30 minutes of indoor-only free play per day) of a randomly selected week since July 2021.
4. Care for children aged 3-6 years
Services will be excluded if they:
1. Are implementing any indoor-only free play (defined as implementing more than 30 minutes of indoor-only free play per day) at the time of completion of a telephone interview by the research team (in response to Department of Education guidance to introduce more outdoor free play)
2. Do not understand English
3. Cater exclusively for special needs children
4. Are a Department of Education run service.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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