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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.

Detailed Description
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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.

Official Title
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Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Primary Schoolchildren: Evaluation and Implementation of an Online Video Intervention for Parents

Conditions
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Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Healthy Diet, Primary Schoolchildren, Parents, Parenting

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Movie Models


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| No Intervention: waitlist control group<br>The waitlist control group parents received the online videos when the intervention period was over. | |
| Experimental: intervention group<br> | Behavioral: Movie Models<br>* The intervention group got acces to a private website for 4 weeks on which the online videos were placed (Week 1: fruit + water, week 2: vegetables + breakfast + supermarket, week 3: PA, week 4: SB) After each week, parents received a link for an online process evaluation questionnaire in which we asked how many times they watched each video, if they discussed the videos with other people, if they found them interesting, boring…<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months |  | After 1 and 4 months | 
| Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior 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

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months |  | After 1 and 4 months | 
| Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months |  | After 1 and 4 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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physical activity, screen time, vegetables, fruit, snacks, softdrink, water, fruit juice, parenting practices, online videos, intervention mapping protocol