The Good Start Matters - Parenting Program

NCT05802160 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: H18-01434(2)
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 118
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Early childhood is an important period where the family can support the development and maintenance of healthy eating and active behaviors to prevent or reduce childhood obesity. With this ultimate goal, we designed the Good Start Matters - Parenting program, which aims to engage families in positive parenting practices that support healthy child behaviors, and aim to evaluate the efficacy of this intervention with a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). The Good Start Matters - Parenting program is a 2-month mobile-Health (mHealth) parenting intervention which promote positive parenting (primary outcome) and support children's healthy nutrition, physical activity, and decrease screen-time (secondary outcomes).

Conditions

Parenting Practices; Co-parenting Practices; Child Eating and Dietary Behaviors; Child Physical Activity/active Play/outdoor Play; Child Screen Time

Keywords

Parenting intervention; mHealth; parenting practices; co-parenting; eating behavior; physical activity; active play; screen time

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Parenting practices (parent outcome)

  Questions adapted from the "Food and Physical Activity Item Banks" (Masse et al 2020) to specifically assess parenting practices related to food, physical activity and screen time. The scale ranges from 1-5 in most items, and higher scores indicate greater endorsement of each parenting practice.

  Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention)

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Change in Co-Parenting practices (parent outcome)

  Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention)

• Change in Eating and dietary behaviors (child outcome)

  Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention)

• Change in Physical activity (child outcome)

  Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention)

• Change in Screen time (child outcome)

  Two time points (baseline and 10 weeks post intervention)

Study Arms (2)

Good Start Matters Parenting intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention group will receive immediate access to the app where the Good Start Matters - Parenting intervention will be delivered over a 2-months period.

Behavioral: Good Start Matters - Parenting intervention

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will not receive access to the intervention until they complete the follow-up measures (after 10 weeks).

Interventions

Good Start Matters - Parenting intervention BEHAVIORAL

The Good Start Matters - Parenting intervention is a 2-month mobile-Health (mHealth) parenting program that aims to improve parenting practices and child health behaviors among British Columbian families of preschoolers. This intervention uses a familial approach and blends the best practices and evidence to promote positive parenting regarding 3 main areas: nutrition, physical activity, and screen-time; which altogether aim to support the development of healthy habits among young children. The mHealth app releases new material on a weekly basis and participants' engagement with the app takes about 30 minutes per week.

Good Start Matters Parenting intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 30 Months - 6 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Children must be:
• Attending a childcare center invited to participate in the Good Start Matters study.
• Older than 2.5 and younger than 6 years
• Parents must:
• Be the primary caregiver/legal guardian of an eligible child OR share childrearing responsibilities with an already enrolled primary caregiver/legal guardian of an eligible child
• Be fluent in English
• Have a cellphone number and smartphone device where they can receive text messages and download and access the app

You may not qualify if:

• Parents and children:
• \- Currently participating in a pediatric weight management program or in a nutritional program are not eligible.
• Children:
• With severe dietary restrictions that limit their ability to follow general nutritional guidelines for toddlers and preschoolers are not eligible.
• With severe physical limitations that limit their ability to follow general movement behavior guidelines for toddlers and preschoolers are not eligible.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of British Columbia: lead
• BC Children's Hospital Research Institute: collaborator
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): collaborator
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of British Columbia / BC Children's Hospital Research Institute

Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3V4, Canada

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• De-Jongh Gonzalez O, Tugault-Lafleur CN, Mah JWT, Masse LC. The Good Start Matters mHealth Parenting Program: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Oct 23;14:e72642. doi: 10.2196/72642.

  PMID: 41129815 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Behavior

Study Officials

• Louise Masse, PhD

  University Of British Columbia & BC Children's Hospital Research Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Louise Masse, PhD

CONTACT

604 875 2000; lmasse@bcchr.ubc.ca

Olivia de Jongh, PhD

CONTACT

6048752000; olivia.djgonzalez@bcchr.ca

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 15, 2023
• First Posted: April 6, 2023
• Study Start: April 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2025
• Study Completion: April 2, 2025
• Last Updated: January 14, 2025

Record last verified: 2024-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)