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Conditions
Brief summary
HYHD is an evidenced-based 8-week program aiming to improve the healthy lifestyle behaviours of fathers and their pre-school aged children. HYHD provides fathers with the knowledge, motivation and parenting strategies to engage with their children and become role models to improve physical activity levels, dietary behaviours and weight status of both themselves and their children. This program has been successfully tested in a feasibility trial at the University of Newcastle. The aim of this RCT is to test the effectiveness of the HYHD program when delivered by local trained facilitators.
Interventions
The ‘Healthy Youngsters Healthy Dads’ intervention will include:
- 2 x ‘dads-only’ information workshops (2 x 2 hours: face-to-face)
- 8 x ‘dads-and-youngsters’ education and practical sessions (1.5 hours/week: face-to-face)
During each dads-only workshop, fathers will learn evidenced-based strategies to improve their own lifestyle behaviours and parenting practices to improve their children’s physical activity, dietary habits, social-emotional well-being and sports skills.
Each dads-and-yo
The ‘Healthy Youngsters Healthy Dads’ intervention will include: - 2 x ‘dads-only’ information workshops (2 x 2 hours: face-to-face) - 8 x ‘dads-and-youngsters’ education and practical sessions (1.5 hours/week: face-to-face) During each dads-only workshop, fathers will learn evidenced-based strategies to improve their own lifestyle behaviours and parenting practices to improve their children’s physical activity, dietary habits, social-emotional well-being and sports skills. Each dads-and-youngsters practical session will be broken up into 2 components: (i) A 20-minute educational session based on weekly theme, conducted for fathers and children together (ii) A 55-minute practical session where fathers and children participate together in rough and tumble play (e.g. sock wrestles), health-related fitness (e.g. fitness circuits, shuttle carries) and fundamental movement skills (e.g. catching, kicking, throwing). There are eight weekly themes for the dads-and-youngsters sessions, including: 1. Rough and tumble play 2. Vegetables 3. Physical activity 4. Fruit 5. Screens 6. Water 7. Sport skills (i.e., fundamental movement skills) 8. Summary of program In addition to these sessions, participants will receive the following program resources: - A t-shirt and water bottle - An activity book developed for this study with a range of activities for fathers and children to complete at home between sessions. The activities include goal setting, fundamental movement skill practice, physical activity tracking and home challenges that match each session theme (e.g. nutrition, screen time, physical activity) (approx. 30-minute time commitment per week) Both components will be delivered at the University of Newcastle by local trained facilitators (qualified teachers and student teachers). All facilitators will attend a training course delivered by Professor Philip Morgan at the University of Newcastle where they will learn how to deliver the HYHD program and will receive resources to support their facilitation (e.g. facilitator manual). Participants will be randomly allocated into either an intervention or control group. The intervention group will first participate in the 8-week HYHD program in term 1 2019 (2nd February - 23rd March, 2019), with the control group to follow thereafter in term 4 2019. Intervention adherence will be assessed via: - Attendance records at the session - Completed activity book (e.g. recorded steps, reviewed goals and completed sport skills activities)
Sponsors
Prof. Philip Morgan
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
3 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Men can participate if they: - Are a father, step father or male guardian of a child aged 3-5 years - Live with their child at least 50% of the week - Are able to attend all assessments - Are able to attend all program sessions - Are able to pass a pre-exercise screening questionnaire for physical activity Children can participate if they are 3-5 years old, but not attending primary school in the year of the trial.
Exclusion criteria
Men will require a doctors clearance to participate if they report any concerns on a pre-exercise screening questionnaire (e.g., history of heart pains during exercise). Children cannot participate if they are: - Younger than 3 years at baseline assessments; - Older than 5 years at baseline assessments; or - Attending primary school in 2019
Outcome results
None listed