Preschoolers Active at Child Care (PACT)

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity

Treatments: Behavioral: Active Play (AP); Behavioral: Outdoor Play (OP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03752008

14169 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to develop, test, and compare two approaches to increasing physical activity (PA) and decreasing sedentary time among young children at child care centers, one which focused on a teacher-led PA curriculum (AP=Active Play!) and the other on increasing outdoor free play time (OP=Outdoor Play!).

Full description

This was a matched pair cluster-randomized study in 10 child care centers. One classroom in each pair received either AP or OP, and their providers received a condition-specific 3-hour workshop. Pre- and post-intervention data were collected from classroom observation and accelerometers. Additional information about teachers' attitudes and practices was collected via pre-intervention survey.

Enrollment: 131 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Teachers/Staff
• be a teacher/staff member in a participating childcare center
• Students
• be 3 - 5 years old
• be a full day student in the classroom where data collection was occurring

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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131 participants in 2 patient groups

Active Play (AP)

Experimental group

Description:

This arm received the Active Play curriculum intervention (described in following section).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Active Play (AP)

Outdoor Play (OP)

Experimental group

Description:

This arm received the Outdoor Play curriculum intervention (described in following section).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Outdoor Play (OP)