Screen Free Time With Friends Feasibility Trial

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Screen Media Use; Time With Friends

Treatments: Behavioral: School-based extracurricular intervention focusing on screen media use and time spent with friends

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05480085

NNF20SH0062965

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial is a study designed to inform development of a definitive trial. The feasibility trial aims to 1) examine the feasibility of an intervention aimed to limit recreational screen media use and promote more time with peers after school and during weekends among 10-11 year old children, 2) examine participant recruitment and retention rates, 3) examine the feasibility of the data collection plan and completeness of the compliance and outcome assessment, and 4) obtain baseline and follow-up data on the planned full trial primary outcome. The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial will be conducted as a non-randomized single group feasibility trial including children, their parents and school and afterschool personal from 3rd grade school classes from different schools in the Region of Southern Denmark. The goal is to include a representative sample of children and parents in the participating 3rd grades, and thus there will be no individual level inclusion and exclusion criteria. A process evaluation and outcome measurements will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention, the data collection plan, and compliance. A baseline- and follow-up assessment will be carried out for some measurements, while others will be collected continuously during the intervention period.

Enrollment: 204 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• the distance between the school and the related afterschool club is in walking and cycling distance
• the afterschool club must have potential for improvement (assessed by the municipality)
• the afterschool club personal must have a wish to develop the afterschool club

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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204 participants in 1 patient group

School-based extracurricular intervention focusing on screen media use and time spent with friends

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: School-based extracurricular intervention focusing on screen media use and time spent with friends