Screen Media Use, Time With Friends
Conditions
Brief summary
The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial is a study designed to inform development of a definitive trial. The feasibility trial aims to 1) examine the feasibility of an intervention aimed to limit recreational screen media use and promote more time with peers after school and during weekends among 10-11 year old children, 2) examine participant recruitment and retention rates, 3) examine the feasibility of the data collection plan and completeness of the compliance and outcome assessment, and 4) obtain baseline and follow-up data on the planned full trial primary outcome. The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial will be conducted as a non-randomized single group feasibility trial including children, their parents and school and afterschool personal from 3rd grade school classes from different schools in the Region of Southern Denmark. The goal is to include a representative sample of children and parents in the participating 3rd grades, and thus there will be no individual level inclusion and exclusion criteria. A process evaluation and outcome measurements will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention, the data collection plan, and compliance. A baseline- and follow-up assessment will be carried out for some measurements, while others will be collected continuously during the intervention period.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALSchool-based extracurricular intervention focusing on screen media use and time spent with friends
The intervention includes the following components: 1. Within each class parents will engage in two meetings combining education and parent-to-parent communication about 1) the children's leisure time activities, and 2) family and class screen time culture. Parents will engage in a short exercise focusing on screen media dilemmas conducted by the teacher in the beginning of 4th grade. 2. Children will engage in school hour workshops focusing on the class culture related to screen media use and leisure time activities. 3. Afterschool club personal will engage in mini actions learning program consisting of three workshops aimed to increase participation rate in the afterschool club. 4. Local stakeholders, e.g., parents, school- and afterschool club personal and others relevant to children's leisure time (e.g., sports clubs) will engage in workshops to adjust the predetermined intervention components (1-3 above) to fit their local context and to develop a local action plan.
Sponsors
Novo Nordisk A/S
University of Southern Denmark
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
8 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* the distance between the school and the related afterschool club is in walking and cycling distance * the afterschool club must have potential for improvement (assessed by the municipality) * the afterschool club personal must have a wish to develop the afterschool club
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feasibility of the intervention | Baseline | The feasibility of the intervention is evaluated using process evaluation inspired by the RE-AIM framework. Questionnaires to parents and local workshop participants focusing on the intervention and measurements will be used to assess acceptability. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance to leisure time activities measurement | Three times/week for three weeks at baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of parents answering questions focusing on the child's afterschool club participation and time spent with friends and family during leisure time. |
| Compliance to objective screen media use measurement | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of children and parents with data on objective measured smartphone use. |
| Compliance to subjective screen media use measurement | Three times/week for three weeks at baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of parents answering questions focusing on the child's screen media use during leisure time. |
| Participant recruitment and retention rate | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of invited municipalities, schools, afterschool clubs and participants included in the study and proportion of municipalities, schools, afterschool clubs and participants completing the study. |
| Compliance to wellbeing measurement | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of children answering KIDSCREEN-27 questionnaire focusing on wellbeing. |
| Compliance to a child questionnaire | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of children answering a questionnaire focusing on wellbeing, screen culture in the class and family and children's social relations. |
| Compliance to a parent questionnaire | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of parents answering the parent questionnaire including questions on background informations, their child's and family's physical activity and screen media habits and children's and parents screen media addiction. |
| Compliance to objective physical activity measurement | Baseline and 6-month follow-up | Proportion of children wearing the accelerometer (Axivity AX3) for at least four out of seven measurements days at baseline and follow-up (at least one day must be a weekend day). |
Countries
Denmark
Outcome results
None listed