NCT04590755

Run Daddy Run! A Lifestyle Intervention Focusing on Fathers and Their Children

Run, Daddy, Run! A Multicomponent eHealth Lifestyle Intervention for the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity: Engaging Fathers and Their Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to develop and implement a multicomponent eHealth lifestyle intervention (focusing on (co-) physical activity and screen time) for fathers and their children, aiming to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.

Detailed description

The Run Daddy Run project aims to develop an effective lifestyle intervention for Belgian fathers and their primary school-aged children, to prevent overweight and obesity. There is focused on increasing (co-) physical activity and limiting individual and joint screen time. The project specifically targets fathers and their children because the literature shows that now often only mothers participate in lifestyle interventions, and fathers are underrepresented and difficult to involve. However, fathers play an important and unique role, independently of the mother, in shaping the child's behavior. The Run Daddy Run intervention was developed based on the Intervention Mapping Protocol, a theoretical framework that is often used to develop interventions in a systematic way using empirical evidence and theoretical insights. A co-creation approach was also used for the intervention development, which is a bottom-up approach in which the target group (fathers in this case) is actively involved in the development of the intervention. The result of this approach is contextually appropriate intervention and intervention strategies.

Conditions

• Father-Child Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Interactive father-child sessions and website	The Run Daddy Run intervention will consist of 5 (inter)active sessions for fathers and their children + 1 follow-up session, each session lasting 90 minutes. These sessions will be given to 8 groups of +- 13 families (fathers and their children), guided by 2 facilitators and will take place every 2 weeks, at a location in the neighborhood of fathers and children (e.g. school of the children). Additionally, a website will be available for the fathers and their children, with additional information about the project, tips and information about being active together (e.g. movement breaks, fundamental movement skills, etc.) and limiting screen time. In addition, fathers and their children will also log their goals on this website, and between two sessions (= a period of 2 weeks) they will be asked to keep track of their co-PA on this website, aiming to reach their goal.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2020-10-19
• Last updated: 2021-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium