Healthy Diet, Parenting, Parents, Physical Activity, Primary Schoolchildren, Sedentary Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
physical activity, screen time, vegetables, fruit, snacks, softdrink, water, fruit juice, parenting practices, online videos, intervention mapping protocol
Brief summary
1. Development of a method for parents of primary schoolchildren to teach parents parenting skills to obtain health gain in the family through videos and online feedback. 2. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology. 3. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.
Detailed description
The current project aims to develop, test and implement online videos to teach effective parenting skills to parents of primary schoolchildren. This way we want to achieve health profit by stimulating PA en healthy diet, and reducing SB in children. The online videos, based on existing literature and focus group research, show parents via modeling how they can react in difficult parenting situations related to PA, SB and healthy diet. In the current study, these videos will first be tested in an effect and process evaluation study. 300 families with at least one primary schoolchild will be recruited and randomized into an intervention/control group. By using a survey at the pre-, post- and follow-up test, we will examine if parenting practices become more effective, if related parental self-efficacy enhances and if children perform more healthy behaviors after their parents watched the videos.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMovie Models
The intervention group got acces to a private website for 4 weeks on which the online videos were placed (Week 1: fruit + water, week 2: vegetables + breakfast + supermarket, week 3: PA, week 4: SB) After each week, parents received a link for an online process evaluation questionnaire in which we asked how many times they watched each video, if they discussed the videos with other people, if they found them interesting, boring…
Sponsors
Flemish Agency for Care and Health
Research Foundation Flanders
University Ghent
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* having at least one primary schoolchild * having a computer at home with internet access
Exclusion criteria
* primary schoolchild is on diet * primary schoolchild has a physical disability which causes problems to move/sport * being younger than 18 or older than 70 * having no internet access
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months | After 1 and 4 months |
| Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months | After 1 and 4 months |
| Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months | After 1 and 4 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months | After 1 and 4 months |
| Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months | After 1 and 4 months |
Countries
Belgium
Outcome results
None listed