Promoting healthy eating and psysical activity, parenting, preventing overweight children
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Parents of children from group 6, 7 and 8 from schools, who participate in the already excisting programme 'Scoring for health' in the region Druten and West Maas and Waal in the Netherlands. The inclusion criteria for the children are that their parents participate in our research.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Insufficient understanding of the Dutch language.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changing eating and exercise behaviour in children The differences (between the intervention group and the control group) in changes in eating and physical activity behaviour of children between baseline and t=1 and t=2. This eating and physical activity behaviour is measured by questionnaires filled out by children and their parents. The questions are: 1. How many days a week do you eat breakfast? 2. How many days a week do you eat fruits? 3. How many days a week do you eat vegetables? 4. How many sweet beverages do you drink a day (on average)? 5. How many minutes do you watch tv a day (on average)? 6. How many minutes do you spend behind the computer a day (on average)? 7. How many minutes do you play outside a day (on average)? | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Authoritative parentingstyle (general parenting); 2. Parenting practices measured by: to set rules, modelling and monitoring of healthy eating and physical (in)activity; 3. Parental selfefficacy. | — |
Contacts
Academic collaborative centre AMPHI Department of Public Health, UMC St Radboud Postbus 9101