Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Schoolchildren: an Online Video Intervention for Parents (Movie Models)

Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Primary Schoolchildren: Evaluation and Implementation of an Online Video Intervention for Parents

1. Development of a method for parents of primary schoolchildren to teach parents parenting skills to obtain health gain in the family through videos and online feedback.
2. Effect- and procesevaluation of this methodology.
3. Development of an implementation guide together with VIGEZ as primary partner and in association with partner organisations on the field.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Physical Activity; Parenting; Parents; Sedentary Behavior; Healthy Diet; Primary Schoolchildren
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Movie Models

Detailed Description

The current project aims to develop, test and implement online videos to teach effective parenting skills to parents of primary schoolchildren. This way we want to achieve health profit by stimulating PA en healthy diet, and reducing SB in children. The online videos, based on existing literature and focus group research, show parents via modeling how they can react in difficult parenting situations related to PA, SB and healthy diet. In the current study, these videos will first be tested in an effect and process evaluation study. 300 families with at least one primary schoolchild will be recruited and randomized into an intervention/control group. By using a survey at the pre-, post- and follow-up test, we will examine if parenting practices become more effective, if related parental self-efficacy enhances and if children perform more healthy behaviors after their parents watched the videos.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 207
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Ghent, Belgium, 9000
    • Sara De Lepeleere

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• having at least one primary schoolchild
• having a computer at home with internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

• primary schoolchild is on diet
• primary schoolchild has a physical disability which causes problems to move/sport
• being younger than 18 or older than 70
• having no internet access

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: waitlist control group; The waitlist control group parents received the online videos when the intervention period was over.
Experimental: intervention group	Behavioral: Movie Models; The intervention group got acces to a private website for 4 weeks on which the online videos were placed (Week 1: fruit + water, week 2: vegetables + breakfast + supermarket, week 3: PA, week 4: SB) After each week, parents received a link for an online process evaluation questionnaire in which we asked how many times they watched each video, if they discussed the videos with other people, if they found them interesting, boring…

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change from Baseline in physical activity level of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in sedentary behavior of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in healthy diet of children at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change from Baseline in performing effective parenting practices of parents at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months
Change from Baseline in parental self-efficacy concerning performing effective parenting practices at 1 and 4 months	After 1 and 4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Ghent
• Collaborators: Research Foundation Flanders; Flemish Agency for Care and Health

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Van Stappen V, De Lepeleere S, Huys N, Latomme J, Verloigne M, Cardon G, Androutsos O, Manios Y, De Bourdeaudhuij I, De Craemer M. Effect of integrating a video intervention on parenting practices and related parental self-efficacy regarding health behaviours within the Feel4Diabetes-study in Belgian primary schoolchildren from vulnerable families: A cluster randomized trial. PLoS One. 2019 Dec 11;14(12):e0226131. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226131. eCollection 2019.
• De Lepeleere S, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Cardon G, Verloigne M. The effect of an online video intervention 'Movie Models' on specific parenting practices and parental self-efficacy related to children's physical activity, screen-time and healthy diet: a quasi experimental study. BMC Public Health. 2017 Apr 27;17(1):366. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4264-1.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: December 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): June 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 28, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 29, 2014
• First Posted (Estimate): October 30, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): October 30, 2014
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 29, 2014
• Last Verified: October 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: physical activity; vegetables; water; screen time; fruit; snacks; softdrink; fruit juice; parenting practices; online videos; intervention mapping protocol
• Other Study ID Numbers: B670201214212