Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Schoolchildren: an Online Video Intervention for Parents (Movie Models)

University Ghent

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Parenting; Parents; Healthy Diet; Sedentary Behavior; Primary Schoolchildren

Treatments: Behavioral: Movie Models

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02278809

B670201214212

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. Development of a method for parents of primary schoolchildren to teach parents parenting skills to obtain health gain in the family through videos and online feedback.
2. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology.
3. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.

Full description

The current project aims to develop, test and implement online videos to teach effective parenting skills to parents of primary schoolchildren. This way we want to achieve health profit by stimulating PA en healthy diet, and reducing SB in children. The online videos, based on existing literature and focus group research, show parents via modeling how they can react in difficult parenting situations related to PA, SB and healthy diet. In the current study, these videos will first be tested in an effect and process evaluation study. 300 families with at least one primary schoolchild will be recruited and randomized into an intervention/control group. By using a survey at the pre-, post- and follow-up test, we will examine if parenting practices become more effective, if related parental self-efficacy enhances and if children perform more healthy behaviors after their parents watched the videos.

Enrollment: 207 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having at least one primary schoolchild
• having a computer at home with internet access

Exclusion criteria

• primary schoolchild is on diet
• primary schoolchild has a physical disability which causes problems to move/sport
• being younger than 18 or older than 70
• having no internet access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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207 participants in 2 patient groups

waitlist control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The waitlist control group parents received the online videos when the intervention period was over.

intervention group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Movie Models