Clinical trial NCT04590755: Run Daddy Run! A Lifestyle Intervention Focusing on Fathers and Their Children
Official title: Run, Daddy, Run! A Multicomponent eHealth Lifestyle Intervention for the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity: Engaging Fathers and Their Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Father-Child Relations
Keywords: Obesity
Fathers
Children
Primary school
Intervention
Physical activity
Screen time
Sedentary Behaviour
Lead sponsor: University Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Research Foundation Flanders
First posted: 2020-10-19
Enrollment: 102
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 9
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Non-Randomized Controlled Trial with Intervention and Control Group
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to develop and implement a multicomponent eHealth lifestyle intervention (focusing on (co-) physical activity and screen time) for fathers and their children, aiming to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.

Detailed description: The Run Daddy Run project aims to develop an effective lifestyle intervention for Belgian fathers and their primary school-aged children, to prevent overweight and obesity. There is focused on increasing (co-) physical activity and limiting individual and joint screen time. The project specifically targets fathers and their children because the literature shows that now often only mothers participate in lifestyle interventions, and fathers are underrepresented and difficult to involve. However, fathers play an important and unique role, independently of the mother, in shaping the child's behavior.

The Run Daddy Run intervention was developed based on the Intervention Mapping Protocol, a theoretical framework that is often used to develop interventions in a systematic way using empirical evidence and theoretical insights. A co-creation approach was also used for the intervention development, which is a bottom-up approach in which the target group (fathers in this case) is actively involved in the development of the intervention. The result of this approach is contextually appropriate intervention and intervention strategies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Fathers
* Primary school aged children

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unhealthy/disease

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in co-physical Activity
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test), 14 months (follow-up)
measure: Change in physical activity father
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test)
measure: Change in physical activity child
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in co-screen time
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test)
measure: Change in Sedentary behaviour (including screen time) father
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test)
measure: Change in Sedentary behaviour (including screen time) child
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test)
measure: Change in Father-child relationship (quality of relationship)
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test), 14 months (follow-up)
measure: Change in psychosocial determinants (co)PA
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test), 14 months (follow-up)
measure: Change in Family Health Climate
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test), 14 months (follow-up)
measure: Change in Parental Practices regarding PA
timeFrame: 8 months (post-test), 14 months (follow-up)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: Ghent University
Study officials:
affiliation: University Ghent
name: Greet Cardon
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Latomme J, Morgan PJ, De Craemer M, Brondeel R, Verloigne M, Cardon G. A Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention Focusing on Fathers and Their Children Using Co-Creation: Study Protocol of the Run Daddy Run Intervention. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 13;18(4):1830. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041830.