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Conditions
Brief summary
The DADAE Program is an intervention which engages fathers in positive lifestyle role modelling and effective parenting strategies to improve the physical activity behaviours, physical confidence, sport skills and social-emotional wellbeing of their daughters. Importantly, DADAE also targets girls to improve the fitness and physical activity levels, and parenting skills of their fathers. The purpose of this nonrandomized, prospective trial is to expand the evidence-base for DADAE from intervention testing to intervention replication (i.e., the first phase of translation research) using a quasi-experimental research design. The present study will investigate whether: a) whether program fidelity, satisfaction, attendance and retention is maintained, b) the improvements (pre-post) in outcomes (physical activity, parenting practices, Father-daughter relationship and social-emotional well-being) for families established in the previous DADAE RCTs can be achieved and maintained over 12 months in multiple locations with multiple facilitators in a large sample (240 father-daughter dyads).
Interventions
Fathers will attend one 2-hour Dads-only education session covering all key content.
One week later, fathers and daughters will attend 8 weekly face-face sessions of the Daughters And Dads Active and Empowered program together, with the total duration of the study being 9-weeks.
* Each of the 8 weekly daughters and dads session will be broken up into 2 components:
(i) a 30-minute education session with fathers and daughters together
(ii) a 60-minute practical session where fathers and daughte
Fathers will attend one 2-hour Dads-only education session covering all key content. One week later, fathers and daughters will attend 8 weekly face-face sessions of the Daughters And Dads Active and Empowered program together, with the total duration of the study being 9-weeks. * Each of the 8 weekly daughters and dads session will be broken up into 2 components: (i) a 30-minute education session with fathers and daughters together (ii) a 60-minute practical session where fathers and daughters participate together, For Dads-only, education sessions focus on proven parenting key topic areas to improve their daughters’ social-emotional well-being, sports skills and physical activity levels. The daughters’ and dads education sessions focus on understanding sport skills, and fitness and developing key social and emotional skills including self-control, positivity, persistence, critical thinking, resilience, self-reliance and bravery. * The sessions will be group-based (~20 families), delivered by university-trained facilitators (qualified and pre-service teachers) at local school halls. The DADAE practical sessions focus on 3 key areas - Rough and Tumble Play, Fundamental Movement Skills and Fitness. *All fathers and daughters will be provided with program resources including a t-shirt, and a Home activity handbook containing tasks for fathers and daughters to complete together at home (e.g., activity and co-physical activity tracking, practicing social and emotional skills, rough and tumble play activities, fitness circuits, sports skills games). Brief instructions are provided for each task. Participants will be advised to complete activities from a variety of categories equating to a minimum approximate time investment of 12 minutes per week. The program resources/activity handbook is designed specifically for this study. Adherence to the intervention will be monitored by: - Attendance records at the sessions - Activities completed on the Handbook
Sponsors
Professor Philip Morgan
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Men can participate if they: - Are a father or father-figure of a daughter currently attending primary school (K - 6) - Are able to pass a health-screening questionnaire. - Are able to attend the program sessions - Are able to attend program assessments Aside from attending primary school (K-6), there are no additional eligibility criteria for daughters
Exclusion criteria
Men with notable pre-existing health conditions (e.g., history of cardiovascular disease, recent chest pains while exercising) will require a doctor's clearance prior to enrollment. There are no additional exclusion criteria for daughters.
Outcome results
None listed