Clinical trial NCT04300634: Encouraging Physical Activity: Action Or Direction?
Official title: Encouraging Physical Activity: Action Or Direction?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Healthy Children and Their Parents
Keywords: physical activity
active children
active parents
Lead sponsor: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-03-09
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 9
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: FAMILY_BASED
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children between 9-14 years of age, who have similar physical activity awareness, athletes and physiotherapist parents.

Brief summary: Children's physical activity level is decreasing globally. Habits acquired in childhood and adolescence tend to continue in adulthood. Therefore, to obtain individuals who do physical activity or sports, this habit should be gained in childhood.

It is necessary to understand the factors affecting children's lives to increase the physical activity level of the children and make the active lifestyle a habit. These factors can be divided into the environment and family. It is the place where the family socialization process begins first and social norms and cultural values are learned. Parents can be more effective than the environment because they are the main decision-makers on the child. Parents configure the child's time, duties, provide the sports equipment to their child, transfer them for activity. They can support an active lifestyle by taking role models by children. Role modeling is defined as the child's behaviors of observation and social learning and their parents' behavior. In a review, it has been reported that physically active parents encourage their children to have more activities and may have active children. Small-group studies using an objective method are limited in terms of generalizability. While determining the activity level of the child and the family, the fact that the families can respond biased for their children and that the mother or father can take a role model according to the gender of the child reduces the quality of the studies. It remains unclear how and to what extent parents affect children's activity levels.

The aim of this study is to compare the physical activity level of children between 9-14 years of age, who have similar physical activity awareness, athletes and physiotherapist parents


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being between the ages of 9-14
* Being literate in Turkish
* Not having any physical disability preventing them from doing physical activities
* Attending physical education class regularly

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having a serious cognitive impairment
* Going to school on foot
* Physiotherapists to be selected for the physiotherapist group to work in the field of sports

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical Activity Questionnaire for Older Children (PAQ-C)
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Physical Activity Diary
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)
timeFrame: 4 weeks
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