Gamified WellWe-intervention to Promote the Health and Wellbeing of Families With Small Children

University of Turku

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy; Health Behavior

Treatments: Device: WellWe-Intervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03278288

WellWeF2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the WellWe-intervention in promotion of parental self-efficacy for healthy behaviors and mindfulness in parenting from the perspective of families. Aim is also to evaluate the effectiveness of the WellWe-intervention in facilitation of family-centered approach of the health visit in Child health clinic perceived by the families and Public health nurses (PHN). Half of the participants will receive WellWe-intervention and half of the participants will receive usual care.

Full description

Families with pre-school aged children attend to regular health visits in Child health clinics on a yearly basis. During the health visits PHNs assess and promote the health and wellbeing of the whole family through health discussions.

In this study we aim to evaluate whether the addition of gamified method into the health discussion promotes healthy behaviors and mindfulness of the families and increases the family-centered approach of health visit compared to the traditional method.

WellWe-intervention includes the use of gamified WellWe app at home and during the health discussion in the Child health clinic. Usual care includes paper-based questionnaires filled by the parents and health discussion using these questionnaires in the Child health clinic.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• families: Finnish speaking families with 4-year old child and attend into health visit in Child health clinic during data collection period.
• PHNs: a permanent employee in Child health clinic or deputy employee working in Child health clinic during the data collection period.

Exclusion criteria

• families: Child is developmentally disabled to participate to the use of WellWe-app with parents.
• PHNs: Deputy employees working in Child health clinic only a short period of time or temporarily.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

WellWe-Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

WellWe-intervention includes the use of WellWe-app to assess the current situation of the wellbeing of the family at home and utilizing these results using WellWe-app during the health visit in Child health clinic.

Treatment:

Device: WellWe-Intervention group

Usual care group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care includes the filling of normal paper-based questionnaires to assess the current situation of the wellbeing of the family at home and utilizing these results during the normal health visit in Child health clinic.