Gamified WellWe-intervention to Promote the Health and Wellbeing of Families With Small Children
- Conditions
- HealthyHealth Behavior
- Interventions
- Device: WellWe-Intervention group
- Registration Number
- NCT03278288
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Turku
- Brief Summary
The study evaluates the effectiveness of the WellWe-intervention in promotion of parental self-efficacy for healthy behaviors and mindfulness in parenting from the perspective of families. Aim is also to evaluate the effectiveness of the WellWe-intervention in facilitation of family-centered approach of the health visit in Child health clinic perceived by the families and Public health nurses (PHN). Half of the participants will receive WellWe-intervention and half of the participants will receive usual care.
- Detailed Description
Families with pre-school aged children attend to regular health visits in Child health clinics on a yearly basis. During the health visits PHNs assess and promote the health and wellbeing of the whole family through health discussions.
In this study we aim to evaluate whether the addition of gamified method into the health discussion promotes healthy behaviors and mindfulness of the families and increases the family-centered approach of health visit compared to the traditional method.
WellWe-intervention includes the use of gamified WellWe app at home and during the health discussion in the Child health clinic. Usual care includes paper-based questionnaires filled by the parents and health discussion using these questionnaires in the Child health clinic.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
- families: Finnish speaking families with 4-year old child and attend into health visit in Child health clinic during data collection period.
- PHNs: a permanent employee in Child health clinic or deputy employee working in Child health clinic during the data collection period.
- families: Child is developmentally disabled to participate to the use of WellWe-app with parents.
- PHNs: Deputy employees working in Child health clinic only a short period of time or temporarily.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description WellWe-Intervention group WellWe-Intervention group WellWe-intervention includes the use of WellWe-app to assess the current situation of the wellbeing of the family at home and utilizing these results using WellWe-app during the health visit in Child health clinic.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Parental Self-Efficacy for Healthy Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors in Preschoolers Scale (PDAP) at baseline, an average of 2 weeks and an average of 4 months In this study we use version of the PDAP consisting of 21 items covering contextual circumstances that may either facilitate or impede parental self-efficacy (PSE) for promoting healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors in preschool children. Responses are made on an 11-point Likert scale, with anchors at 0 (not at all confident), 5 (moderately confident), and 10 (completely confident).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Mindfulness In Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ) at baseline and an average of 4 months In this study we use the version of the MIPQ including 28 items. For each item, parents respond using a four-point Likert-type rating scale: infrequently (1), sometimes (2), often (3), or almost always (4).
Questionnaire on the family-centered approach of the health visit an average of 2 weeks Questionnaire developed for the purpose of the study for families consists of 6 dichotomous questions (yes/no) and one open-ended question. Questionnaire for the PHNs consists of 3 dichotomous questions (yes/no) and 3 items with four-point Likert-type rating scale and one open-ended question.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Child health clinics
🇫🇮Four Municipalities, Southwest Finland, Finland