Clinical trial NCT06098716: All in the Family: Promoting Family Function Through Physical Activity
Official title: All in the Family: Promoting Family Function Through Physical Activity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Family Functioning
Keywords: Parenting Practices
Exercise
Family Functioning
Identity
Self-Regulation;
Parental Support
Lead sponsor: University of Victoria
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
First posted: 2023-10-24
Enrollment: 165
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 3 arm parallel design single blinded randomized control trial
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: While the primary aim is to improve family functioning via child moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and parent-child co-physical activity (PA), the proposed driver of these outcomes is parental support of child PA. Most theoretical models applied to understand parental support in family interventions have been social cognitive in nature, where intention is considered the proximal antecedent to behavior, it is not surprising that past approaches in family PA promotion center heavily on the antecedents of intention such as attitudes and perceived control. Nevertheless, a low correlation between intention and behavior in parental support of child PA has been demonstrated Thus, there is a need to continue to improve the effectiveness of family-based interventions in ways to sustain initial behavioral changes. Family-based promotion initiatives are also very timely because parents and children represent low activity groups

Detailed description: The primary objective of this study is to test the efficacy of three Physical Activity (PA) parenting support promotion approaches on key family function outcomes (e.g., cohesion, organization) among parents of children who were not participating in regular PA at baseline of the study. The secondary objectives are to examine whether these approaches: 1) produce differences in child moderate-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and parent-child intergenerational PA, and 2) predict PA using the Multi-Process Action Control Framework (MPAC) augmented to include family social PA identity. Primary Question: Does 1) the promotion of a PA parenting identities+self-regulation skills+education (ID) increase family function outcomes (particularly family cohesion, and family organization) compared with 2) promotion of PA parenting self-regulation skills+education (SR), and 3) an education about PA control condition (ED)? Secondary Question: Does 1) the ID condition increase child moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) and parent-child co-PA compared with 2) the SR condition and 3) the ED condition? Hypothesis: The ID condition will show significantly larger changes in these PA outcomes compared to the two other conditions after six-months (primary end-point). Further, the SR condition will show significantly larger changes in PA outcomes compared to the ED condition after six-months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Participants will be at least one parent with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 10 years.

Families (parents and/or guardians and children) residing in Canada. Children that participate in \<60 minutes/day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA

Exclusion Criteria:

If child is meeting the current physical activity guidelines \>=60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day.

If participant does not pass Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Increase family function outcomes
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in children's moderate to vigorous physical activity to 6 months
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months
measure: Parent-child intergenerational activity measured via parent self-report
timeFrame: Baseline - 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Victoria
country: Canada
facility: University of Victoria
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Victoria
name: Ryan Rhodes, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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