PLAYshop: A Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood

University of Alberta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Development; Parent-Child Relations; Motor Activity

Treatments: Behavioral: PLAYshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05255250

PLAYshop2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention designed to address this major public health issue of childhood physical inactivity and to support families.

Primary Research Question: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls?

Full description

The overall goal for the proposed study is to examine the efficacy of the PLAYshop program, a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention, on child- and family-specific outcomes.

Research Questions:

Primary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls? Secondary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical activity and co-participation in physical activity with parents, compared to controls? Tertiary: 1) Does the PLAYshop program increase parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development, compared to controls? 2) What is the level of, and factors that influence, implementation at the family and program delivery level?

Hypotheses:

Increases in preschool-aged children's fundamental movement skills, motivation and enjoyment, physical activity, and parent-child co-participation in physical activity will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group. Additionally, increase in parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 3-5 years and their parents
• Living in non-rural areas of Alberta or British Columbia, Canada as defined by Statistics Canada

Exclusion criteria

• Children diagnosed with developmental delay or disorder/condition that may affect gross motor development or limit their ability to be physically active.
• Families with parents who do not comfortably speak or read English.
• Families that do not have access to a smartphone/tablet with camera and microphone.
• Families that have participated in prior PLAYshop pilot and feasibility trials.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

PLAYshop Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a 60 minute virtual physical literacy workshop, an equipment goody-bag with basic play equipment and printed resources, and access to a digital app with an online toolkit and four bi-weekly boosters lessons.

Treatment:

Behavioral: PLAYshop

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will receive the 60 minute virtual physical literacy workshop, equipment goody-bag, and access to the digital app after completing 2-month follow-up measures.