Parents Together: Supporting Parents to Promote Healthy Behaviours in Children
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: Parents Together parenting course.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Child Eating Behaviours, Child Nutrition, Early Child Development, Parenting. Basic parameters: 2 years — 5 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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Overview
The Parents Together trial aims to determine if the Parents Together program consisting of virtual parent group sessions and coaching calls, will result in better health outcomes for children. The program which is facilitated by a Public Health Nurse seeks to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours, help build strong family relationships, and promote child development and mental health.
Detailed description
This study will determine whether an intervention combining group-based parenting skills training and public health nurse coaching calls with a focus on healthy eating behaviours and nutrition, activity and sleep, compared to regular health care will lead to improved eating behaviours, movement behaviours, health and mental health in children aged 2-5 years and their caregivers.
Healthy children will be identified through primary care practices participating in The Applied Reearch Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!). Families who participate in this study will be randomly assigned to one of the two study groups that will run for 6-months:
Group A: Receive 8 weeks of group parenting education sessions and up to 4 public health nurse coaching calls. Group B: Receive regular health care.
Interventions
- Behavioral Parents Together parenting course
parenting course and coaching calls
Primary outcome measures
- Child eating behaviours [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Dietary intake and food environment [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Nutritional risk [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, Sleep Duration [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Physical activity [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Social and emotional development [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Child development [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Family psychosocial health [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Parenting [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Parenting sense of competence [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- sociodemographic, maternal and child characteristics [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- zBMI [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
- Waist circumference [Time frame: 6 months post-randomization]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Child enrolled in the The Applied Reearch Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!) cohort study Family is able to participate in English
Exclusion criteria
Children with a sibling already enrolled in the study Children with severe developmental delay or disability
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 · 2 centers
- St. Michaels Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Clinic — Toronto
- The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06389084 · 179939