Home-Based Exergaming Intervention

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Health-related Fitness; Screen Time; Physical Activity; Cognition

Treatments: Behavioral: Exergaming intervention group; Behavioral: Traditional physical activity comparison

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04540523

Intervention

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will employ a 3-arm randomized clinical trial to determine the effects of a 6-month home-based exergaming intervention on preschoolers' physical activity, health-related fitness, cognition, and screen time, across time, at 3, 6 and 12 months, and as an exploratory outcome, will explore the moderating effects of parent involvement and physical home environment on the intervention role of exergaming across time. Briefly, a total of 330 child-parent dyads from the Twin Cities area in Minnesota will be individually randomly assigned to: 1) an exergaming intervention group (30 min. per session, 5 sessions exergaming play per week for a 6-month period); 2) a traditional PA group (phone consultations and workshops for parents to offer 5 times 30 min. PA at home for 6 months); and 3) an attention control group (continue with usual activities at home with emailed PA tips).

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• response to an advertisement for the study;
• has only one child aged 4-5 years old in the family;
• speaks English;
• family with income within 185% of the Federal Poverty Guideline Levels determined by parents' self-report;
• has a TV with HDMI port or VGA port or video port at home
• the child has no medical conditions or physical disabilities that prohibit engagement in PA;
• physically inactive child who does not meet 120 min. PA per day;
• parental agreement to participating in the home visits and evaluations;
• lives within 20 miles of the UMN;
• family willingness to commit to 6 months of intervention and 6 months of follow-up;
• not moving out of area for the next 12 months.

Exclusion criteria

• children/parents from families that already own exergame(s) as these children tend to possess high experience levels with exergaming play;
• child who are physically active for more than recommended 180 min. PA per day as reported by parents.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

Exergaming intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

30 minutes of exergaming per session and 5 sessions of exergaming play per week for a 6-month period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exergaming intervention group

Traditional Physical Activity

Active Comparator group

Description:

Phone consultations and workshops for parents to offer 5 times, 30 minutes per session; traditional physical activity at home for 6 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional physical activity comparison

Attention control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Continue with usual activities at home with emailed physical activity tips.