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Run Daddy Run! A Lifestyle Intervention Focusing on Fathers and Their Children (RDR)

U

University Ghent

Status

Completed

Conditions

Father-Child Relations

Treatments

Behavioral: Interactive father-child sessions and website

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04590755
FWO17/ASP/123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to develop and implement a multicomponent eHealth lifestyle intervention (focusing on (co-) physical activity and screen time) for fathers and their children, aiming to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.

Full description

The Run Daddy Run project aims to develop an effective lifestyle intervention for Belgian fathers and their primary school-aged children, to prevent overweight and obesity. There is focused on increasing (co-) physical activity and limiting individual and joint screen time. The project specifically targets fathers and their children because the literature shows that now often only mothers participate in lifestyle interventions, and fathers are underrepresented and difficult to involve. However, fathers play an important and unique role, independently of the mother, in shaping the child's behavior.

The Run Daddy Run intervention was developed based on the Intervention Mapping Protocol, a theoretical framework that is often used to develop interventions in a systematic way using empirical evidence and theoretical insights. A co-creation approach was also used for the intervention development, which is a bottom-up approach in which the target group (fathers in this case) is actively involved in the development of the intervention. The result of this approach is contextually appropriate intervention and intervention strategies.

Enrollment

102 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 9 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Fathers
  • Primary school aged children

Exclusion criteria

  • Unhealthy/disease

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

102 participants in 2 patient groups

Interactive father-child sessions and use of website
Experimental group
Description:
Intervention group will receive the Run Daddy Run intervention.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Interactive father-child sessions and website
No intervention (no interactive father-child sessions and use of website)
No Intervention group
Description:
Intervention group will not receive the Run Daddy Run intervention.

Trial contacts and locations

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