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Conditions
Brief summary
The Daughters and Dads cricket Program is a sport-specific variant of the highly successful ‘Daughters And Dads Active and Empowered program’. Specifically, the program aims to engage fathers in positive lifestyle role modelling and effective parenting strategies to improve their daughters’ skill proficiency in cricket, cricket enjoyment and participation, and social-emotional wellbeing. The purpose of this pre-post trial is to expand the evidence-base for Daughters and Dads Cricket 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) recruitment targets are achieved and program fidelity, compliance, satisfaction, and attendance is maintained, b) the impact of Daughters & Dads cricket on daughters’: o sport-specific skill proficiency (e.g., cricket skills) o enjoyment in the sport (e.g., cricket) o intention to continue playing the sport o long-term engagement in the sport
Interventions
Fathers will attend one 2-hour Dads-only education session covering all key content which includes program rationale, the unique influence of fathers, engaging daughters in cricket and pinkification. This will be delivered by trained facilitator using powerpoint which includes interactive activities, short videos, gifs, imagery and text.
One week later, Fathers and daughters will attend 8 x 90 minute weekly face-face sessions, with the total duration being 9 weeks (as per the approved original
Fathers will attend one 2-hour Dads-only education session covering all key content which includes program rationale, the unique influence of fathers, engaging daughters in cricket and pinkification. This will be delivered by trained facilitator using powerpoint which includes interactive activities, short videos, gifs, imagery and text. One week later, Fathers and daughters will attend 8 x 90 minute weekly face-face sessions, with the total duration being 9 weeks (as per the approved original Daughters and Dads Active And Empowered program). * Each of the 8 weekly daughters and dads session will be broken up into 2 components: (i) a 25-minute education session with fathers and daughters together (ii) a 65-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’ skill proficiency in cricket, cricket enjoyment and participation and social-emotional wellbeing. The daughters and dads’ education sessions focus on understanding the game of cricket, and developing girls’ cricket skills and key social and emotional skills including resilience, persistence, positivity and bravery. Content will be sport specific e.g., ‘Learning the Game of Cricket – Part 1’, ‘Female Cricket Superstars. The practical sessions focus on 3 key areas - rough and tumble fielding activities, batting and bowling skill development, and modified cricket games * The sessions will be group-based (~10 father/daughter dyads per program), delivered by university-trained facilitators (qualified teachers) at local schools *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., ‘Activators’ and ‘Skills Practice’). Participants will be advised to complete activities at least one ‘Activator’ and one ‘Skills Practice’ activity per week equating to a minimum approximate time investment of approximately 10 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 in 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
7 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Men can participate if they: - Are a father or father-figure of a daughter Aside from being aged 7-12 years, 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) that do not have a doctor's clearance prior to enrollment will not be eligible,
Outcome results
None listed