Clinical trial NCT02278809: Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Schoolchildren: an Online Video Intervention for Parents
Official title: Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Primary Schoolchildren: Evaluation and Implementation of an Online Video Intervention for Parents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Sedentary Behavior
Healthy Diet
Primary Schoolchildren
Parents
Parenting
Keywords: physical activity
screen time
vegetables
fruit
snacks
softdrink
water
fruit juice
parenting practices
online videos
intervention mapping protocol
Lead sponsor: University Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Flemish Agency for Care and Health
name: Research Foundation Flanders
First posted: 2014-10-30
Enrollment: 207
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 1. 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.
2. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology.
3. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months
timeFrame: After 1 and 4 months
measure: Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months
timeFrame: After 1 and 4 months
measure: Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months
timeFrame: After 1 and 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months
timeFrame: After 1 and 4 months
measure: Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months
timeFrame: After 1 and 4 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: Sara De Lepeleere
Study officials:
References:
citation: Van Stappen V, De Lepeleere S, Huys N, Latomme J, Verloigne M, Cardon G, Androutsos O, Manios Y, De Bourdeaudhuij I, De Craemer M. Effect of integrating a video intervention on parenting practices and related parental self-efficacy regarding health behaviours within the Feel4Diabetes-study in Belgian primary schoolchildren from vulnerable families: A cluster randomized trial. PLoS One. 2019 Dec 11;14(12):e0226131. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226131. eCollection 2019.
citation: De Lepeleere S, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Cardon G, Verloigne M. The effect of an online video intervention 'Movie Models' on specific parenting practices and parental self-efficacy related to children's physical activity, screen-time and healthy diet: a quasi experimental study. BMC Public Health. 2017 Apr 27;17(1):366. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4264-1.