NCT02278809

Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Schoolchildren: an Online Video Intervention for Parents

Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Primary Schoolchildren: Evaluation and Implementation of an Online Video Intervention for Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 207 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Sedentary Behavior
• Healthy Diet
• Primary Schoolchildren
• Parents
• Parenting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Movie 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…

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2014-10-30
• Last updated: 2014-10-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium