Family Habit Physical Activity Study

NCT03145688 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 35941 51350
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 240
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Physical Activity

Keywords

Behavioural; Family physical activity habit

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from baseline in children's physical activity to 6 months

  Children's physical activity will be quantified by accelerometry. Children will wear an accelerometer for a minimum of 10 hours per day for 7 days at baseline and 6 months. Additionally this measure will assess intermediate outcomes at 6 weeks and 3 months.

  Baseline & 6 months

Secondary Outcomes (14)

• Change from baseline in personal physical activity to six months (child PA)

  Baseline & 6 months

• Change from baseline in self-reported family based physical activity to six months

  Baseline & 6 months

• Change from baseline in weight at 6 months

  baseline and 6 months

• Change from baseline in height at 6 months

  baseline and 6 months

• Change from baseline in waist circumference at 6 months

  baseline and 6 months

Other Outcomes (7)

• TERTIARY OUTCOME - Change from baseline in personal physical activity to 6 months (parent)

  Baseline and 6 months

• TERTIARY OUTCOME - Change from baseline in health-related quality of life at 6 months

  baseline & 6 months

• TERTIARY OUTCOME - Change from baseline in family functioning at 6 months

  baseline and 6 months

Study Arms (3)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group package will consist of the Canadian 24 Hour Movement Guidelines recommending 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day for children. The guide also contains arguments \& information about the benefits of physical activity.

Family physical activity Planning

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavoural: Family Physical Activity Planning. The physical activity planning intervention condition 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 workbook on how to plan for family physical activity; brainstorming exercises for parents \& children where they list physical activities that they have found fun in the past, as well as some new activities they would like to try \& skill training content to help with goal setting \& tracking of physical activity.

Behavioral: Family Physical Activity Planning

Family Physical Activity Habit Formation

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioural: Family Physical Activity Habit formation. The Habit formation intervention condition 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. The material includes a brief discussion of what habits are with some very straightforward examples such as preparing for sleep routines or initiating to drive a car to work. 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.

Behavioral: Family Physical Activity Habit Formation

Interventions

Family Physical Activity Planning BEHAVIORAL

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 this material as prompts/suggestions. Families will be instructed to plan for "when," "where," "how," and "what" physical activity will be performed \& then track their physical activity. These aspects will be re-introduced and discussed at week 6 and week 12 in booster sessions

Family physical activity Planning

Family Physical Activity Habit Formation BEHAVIORAL

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 precede the support activity but b) not be present very often when the activity is not to be performed. We will suggest that cues that have repeated exposure during times when family physical activity is not present Parents will then be asked to brainstorm and create a plan of consistency and cues with the workbooks provided. These aspects will be re-introduced and discussed at week 6 and week 12 in booster sessions.

Family Physical Activity Habit Formation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 12 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• participant is unsafe to participate in physical activity as determined by answers to the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Victoria: lead
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada: collaborator
• University of British Columbia: collaborator
• Dalhousie University: collaborator
• University of Alberta: collaborator
• King's College London: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Behavioural Medicine Lab, University of Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia, V8P-5C2, Canada

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• 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 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Ryan Rhodes, PhD

  University of Victoria

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Chris Blanshard, PhD

  Dalhousie University

  STUDY CHAIR

• Valerie Carson, PhD

  University of Alberta

  STUDY CHAIR

• Benjamin Gardner, PhD

  King's College London

  STUDY CHAIR

• Darren Warburton, PhD

  University of British Columbia

  STUDY CHAIR

• Mark Beauchamp, PhD

  University of British Columbia

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor, Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 27, 2017
• First Posted: May 9, 2017
• Study Start: February 12, 2017
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2025
• Study Completion: December 1, 2025
• Last Updated: April 1, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Locations

CA (1)