Family Habit Physical Activity Study
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Family Physical Activity Planning, Family Physical Activity Habit Formation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Physical Activity. Basic parameters: 6 years — 12 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Canada
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Promoting Habit Formation in Family Physical Activity
Overview
The purpose of this study is to examine physical activity habit formation in parents and if this can increase moderate to vigorous physical activity behavior in their children over six months. The Primary Research Question is: Does the habit formation condition result in increased moderate-vigorous intensity physical activity of the child compared to the control (education) and education + planning conditions at six months? Hypothesis: Child physical activity will be higher for the habit formation condition in comparison to the more standard physical activity education and planning conditions at six months.
Detailed description
Secondary Research Questions
1. Does the habit formation condition improve child health-related quality of life, and health-related fitness outcomes compared to the control and planning conditions at six months? Hypothesis: Child health-related fitness and quality of life will be higher for the habit formation condition in comparison to the control and planning conditions. 2. Can group differences among behavioural, and health-related fitness outcomes be explained through a mediation model? Hypothesis: The covariance of the assigned conditions (habit formation, planning + education, education control) on child physical activity will be explained by parental support habit, and through the use of consistency and cues regulation strategies (i.e., manipulation check). In turn, the covariance between support habit and health-related outcomes will be explained by physical activity among conditions. The habit formation condition will not affect parental support intentions or underlying outcome expectations (benefits of physical activity) for support of child physical activity because its effect on behavior is to tie initial intentions to behavioural action or to work independent of goals and intentions. 3. Is there an intergenerational, seasonal, or gender difference across primary outcomes by assigned condition? Hypothesis: Parents in the habit formation condition will show higher physical activity via some activities being performed with their children in comparison to the other conditions. No differences in gender or season are hypothesized but these are exploratory research questions because there is limited research at present \[28\] to make any definitive statement.
Interventions
- Behavioral Family Physical Activity Planning
Families will receive the same guidelines as the standard education control group but will also be provided with family physical activity planning material. This material will include a skill training content workbook on how to plan for family physical activity. The material includes a brainstorming exercise for parents where they list physical activities they think their children have found fun in the past, as well as activities that they would find enjoyable to do as a family. We will provide - Behavioral Family Physical Activity Habit Formation
Families will receive the same content as the education control condition and the physical activity planning condition but with additional material on creating physical activity support habits. A key component of the habit section will be based on planning for context-dependent repetition, with pointers on how to maintain repetition as habit forms. The importance of creating cues for parental support of child physical activity is then outlined. Cues will also be considered factors that a) can pr
Primary outcome measures
- Change from baseline in children's physical activity to 6 months [Time frame: Baseline & 6 months]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Change from baseline in personal physical activity to six months (child PA) [Time frame: Baseline & 6 months]
- Change from baseline in self-reported family based physical activity to six months [Time frame: Baseline & 6 months]
- Change from baseline in weight at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in height at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in waist circumference at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in BMI at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in grip strength at 6 months (MSK fitness) [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in sit and reach flexibility at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in plank test time at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in cardiovascular fitness at 6 months [Time frame: baseline and 6 months]
- Change from baseline in parent support of child's physical activity at 6 weeks [Time frame: baseline and 6 weeks]
- Change from baseline in parent support of child's physical activity at 3 months [Time frame: baseline and 3 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- parents with children between the ages of 6 and 12 years
- self-report low family physical activity
- target child is not meeting Canada's Physical Activity guidelines
Exclusion criteria
- participant is unsafe to participate in physical activity as determined by answers to the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q)
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Canada · 1 center
- Behavioural Medicine Lab, University of Victoria — Victoria
Publications
- Medd ER, Beauchamp MR, Blanchard CM, Carson V, Gardner B, Warburton DE, Rhodes RE. Family-based habit intervention to promote parent support for child physical activity in Canada: protocol for a randomised trial. BMJ Open. 2020 Apr 14;10(4):e033732. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033732. PMID 32295773
Identifiers
NCT: NCT03145688 · 35941 51350