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Conditions
Brief summary
The Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered 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, the program also targets girls to improve their fitness and physical activity levels, and parenting skills of their fathers. This mixed-methods, observational study is a follow-up of participants from previously registered studies, including: ACTRN12615000022561 (2015), ACTRN12616001270404 (2016), ACTRN12617001450303 (2017-2019) and ACTRN12621000264886 (2020). The purpose is to evaluate the impact of the Daughters and Dads community-based program beyond the initial effects, on longer-term, real-world impacts upon the outcomes mentioned above. Establishing the long-term effectiveness of the program: • would be an important and novel contribution to the literature. • may inform future iterations of the programs. • will help provide evidence as to whether additional scale-up of the program is worthwhile with current and future agencies who may wish to fund the scale-up of this evidence-based program, thus providing greater reach to families across the state, nationally and internationally.
Interventions
Fathers/father-figures that participated in any of the DADEE/DADAE programs between 2015-2020 will be invited to participate in this follow-up study (ACTRN12615000022561, ACTRN12616001270404, ACTRN12617001450303 and ACTRN12621000264886).
This follow-up study will involve:
• Part 1: Online survey. Past participants (fathers/ father-figures only) will be invited to complete a one-off survey via a link in an email. Much of this survey was developed specifically for this study relating to their per
Fathers/father-figures that participated in any of the DADEE/DADAE programs between 2015-2020 will be invited to participate in this follow-up study (ACTRN12615000022561, ACTRN12616001270404, ACTRN12617001450303 and ACTRN12621000264886). This follow-up study will involve: • Part 1: Online survey. Past participants (fathers/ father-figures only) will be invited to complete a one-off survey via a link in an email. Much of this survey was developed specifically for this study relating to their perceptions of the long-term impact of the program on themselves, their daughter and their family. Their daughters’ past and current participation in sport and physical activity, and some demographic information. The planned survey has been specifically developed for this study and is expected to take 5-10 minutes for participants to complete. • Part 2: One-on-one semi-structured interviews. A sub-sample of participants who consent to be interviewed will be randomly selected based on two factors, 1) current age of daughter and 2) year they first participated in the program. It is expected that the themes arising from semi-structured interviews will have reached saturation point after approximately 20 interviews. Participants who are selected to complete this interview will be asked to attend via ZOOM (online) with a member of the research team (one-on-one). It is anticipated that the interviews will take approximately 30-60 minutes. Semi-structured questions have been developed specifically for this study to use as a guide for the interviews. Participants will be informed that this interview will be audio-recorded for transcription and analysis purposes. If a father has participated in more than one program and/or with more than one daughter concurrently, he will be asked to consider when answering questions, the first program he participated in and the eldest daughter he participated with during that program.
Sponsors
Professor Philip Morgan
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Male
Age
20 Years to 73 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
• Fathers/father-figures enrolled in a Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered program (formerly known as DADEE) between 2015-2020. • Fathers/father-figures who attended at least 70% of the program based on recorded data.
Exclusion criteria
• Fathers/father-figures who did not provide permission for us to retain their information when completing their initial eligibility screener and consent form. • Fathers/father-figures who are no longer on the Daughters and Dads alumni contact list, indicating that they have opted out of further contact from our team.
Outcome results
None listed