Neighborhood Influence on Parenting Practices Regarding Youth Outdoor Play

Using In-depth Interviews to Examine Neighborhood Influence on Parenting Practices Regarding Youth Outdoor Play and Physical Activity.

Parental constraint of outdoor play may be fueling unhealthy emotional and physical development in today's children and adolescents. Time spent outdoors is a key determinant of unstructured play and overall physical activity levels, both of which are crucial to optimal development in youth. Modern barriers - such as crime, poor social ties among neighbors, and unsafe physical environments - constrain parental practices and reduce opportunities for outdoor play in children and youth. Low levels of perceived collective efficacy, a measure of perceived neighborhood cohesion and the collective capacity to solve neighborhood problems, has been proposed as a social environmental factor that constrains outdoor play by parents either attempting to avoid potentially dangerous situations or using defensive behavior by upgrading security measures. Moreover, incivilities in the neighborhood physical environment (e.g. litter, graffiti, blighted property) may influence parents' perceived collective efficacy. Consequently, a child's ability to achieve the recommended minimum of 60 minutes of daily physical activity may be limited by a complex interaction between neighborhood social and physical environmental factors and the extent to which parents respond by constraining offspring outdoor play. The central hypothesis of this research is that modifiable factors in the neighborhood social and physical environment result in parental constraint of offspring outdoor play, which reduces overall physical activity during critical years of development. This research will use qualitative methods to generate a comprehensive understanding of how and which environmental factors play a crucial role in parental constraint of outdoor play and promote low levels of within-neighborhood physical activity. This ancillary study will recruit 32 parents/guardians of participants from the parent study, Translational Investigation of Growth and Everyday Routines in Kids (TIGER Kids) Study (USDA 3092-51000-056-04A), to participate in in-depth interviews. My ultimate goal is to use knowledge gained from this ancillary study to generate community-based interventions that will target neighborhood factors to successfully reduce parental constraints on outdoor play.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Physical Activity; Parenting; Adolescent Behavior

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 30

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Louisiana
    • Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70808
      • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

32 parents/guardians of participants from the TIGER Kids parent study will be recruited for this study. All parents/guardians will be recruited after their child has completed the baseline (Y0) TIGER Kids study visit.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

-Child completed baseline measures (Y0) for the parent study, TIGER Kids Study (USDA 3092-51000-056-04A).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child did not complete baseline measures (Y0) of the TIGER Kids Study.
• Did not report a home address at the baseline (Y0) TIGER Kids study visit.
• Unwilling or unable to participate in an in-depth interview.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceptions of how the social environment influences parenting practices related to outdoor play and youth's physical activity.	Indepth interviews will be used to measure parental perceptions of how the social environment in which they live influences their parenting decisions regarding their child's outdoor play.	One time-point, 1 hour in-depth interview

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
• Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 26, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 18, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): July 18, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 15, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): December 20, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 24, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 20, 2018
• Last Verified: July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2017-017-PBRC; 1F32HD093282-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: There is currently no plan to share IPD. Qualitative data may be difficult to prepare to ensure privacy of the participant. Furthermore, we do not see the benefit of sharing IPD from this study as qualitative data cannot be easily reanalyzed to validate study findings, combined with other datasets, and has a high risk of being analyzed using invalid/non-rigorous methods.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No