PLAYshop: A Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood

NCT ID: NCT05255250

Last Updated: 2024-12-11

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

130 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-02-24

Study Completion Date

2023-08-30

Brief Summary

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The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention designed to address this major public health issue of childhood physical inactivity and to support families.

Primary Research Question: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls?

Detailed Description

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The overall goal for the proposed study is to examine the efficacy of the PLAYshop program, a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention, on child- and family-specific outcomes.

Research Questions:

Primary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls? Secondary: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical activity and co-participation in physical activity with parents, compared to controls? Tertiary: 1) Does the PLAYshop program increase parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development, compared to controls? 2) What is the level of, and factors that influence, implementation at the family and program delivery level?

Hypotheses:

Increases in preschool-aged children's fundamental movement skills, motivation and enjoyment, physical activity, and parent-child co-participation in physical activity will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group. Additionally, increase in parents' capability, motivation, and opportunity to support preschool-aged children's physical literacy development will be greater in the intervention group, compared to the control group.

Conditions

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Motor Activity Parent-Child Relations Child Development

Keywords

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Questionnaires Interviews Fundamental movement skill assessments Accelerometers

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

All participants will complete baseline measures and then be randomly assigned to group 1 (intervention) or group 2 (control), in a computer generated1:1 sequence.
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Participants: While the families will not be told explicitly if they have been assigned to the intervention or control group, they may be able to determine their group based on when their workshop is scheduled (i.e., immediately versus after completion of all study measures).

Research Coordinator: The research coordinator will be aware of the group allocations as they will be in charge of coordinating random assignment and have to schedule participants into workshops and other measures based on their specific allocation.

Outcomes Assessors: Research assistants who score children's fundamental movement skills based on recorded videos will not be told explicitly if a participant is part of the intervention or control group. Though there is a possibility that they may recall group assignment from previous data collection sessions they led.

Study Groups

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PLAYshop Intervention

Participants will receive a 60 minute virtual physical literacy workshop, an equipment goody-bag with basic play equipment and printed resources, and access to a digital app with an online toolkit and four bi-weekly boosters lessons.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

PLAYshop

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The intervention includes: 1. Educational Training - the 60 min virtual workshop will be delivered by a trained facilitator. Parents will be introduced to physical literacy via education, group discussion, and active participation in fundamental movement skills (FMS) based activities with their child. 2. Distribution of Education Resources- Parents will be sent physical literacy and physical activity printed resources. 3. Material resources -parents will also be provided a bag of inexpensive active play equipment (e.g., ball, bean bag, balloons). 4. Provide Follow-up Support- After the workshop, participants will gain access to an app with an online toolkit including new active play ideas, tips, and equipment they can make at home for active play. Additionally, participants will receive four bi-weekly booster lessons that include key workshop messages, support and encouragement for parents, reflection and check-in questions, and new activities to try with their child.

Control

Participants will receive the 60 minute virtual physical literacy workshop, equipment goody-bag, and access to the digital app after completing 2-month follow-up measures.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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PLAYshop

The intervention includes: 1. Educational Training - the 60 min virtual workshop will be delivered by a trained facilitator. Parents will be introduced to physical literacy via education, group discussion, and active participation in fundamental movement skills (FMS) based activities with their child. 2. Distribution of Education Resources- Parents will be sent physical literacy and physical activity printed resources. 3. Material resources -parents will also be provided a bag of inexpensive active play equipment (e.g., ball, bean bag, balloons). 4. Provide Follow-up Support- After the workshop, participants will gain access to an app with an online toolkit including new active play ideas, tips, and equipment they can make at home for active play. Additionally, participants will receive four bi-weekly booster lessons that include key workshop messages, support and encouragement for parents, reflection and check-in questions, and new activities to try with their child.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Children aged 3-5 years and their parents
* Living in non-rural areas of Alberta or British Columbia, Canada as defined by Statistics Canada

Exclusion Criteria

* Children diagnosed with developmental delay or disorder/condition that may affect gross motor development or limit their ability to be physically active.
* Families with parents who do not comfortably speak or read English.
* Families that do not have access to a smartphone/tablet with camera and microphone.
* Families that have participated in prior PLAYshop pilot and feasibility trials.
Minimum Eligible Age

3 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

5 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Victoria

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Alberta

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Valerie Carson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Alberta

Patti-Jean Naylor, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Victoria

Ryan Rhodes, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Victoria

Sam Liu, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Victoria

Locations

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Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Masse LC, O'Connor TM, Lin Y, Carbert NS, Hughes SO, Baranowski T, Beauchamp MR. The physical activity parenting practices (PAPP) item Bank: a psychometrically validated tool for improving the measurement of physical activity parenting practices of parents of 5-12-year-old children. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2020 Nov 4;17(1):134. doi: 10.1186/s12966-020-01036-0.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 33148276 (View on PubMed)

Heitzler CD, Martin SL, Duke J, Huhman M. Correlates of physical activity in a national sample of children aged 9-13 years. Prev Med. 2006 Apr;42(4):254-60. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.01.010. Epub 2006 Feb 20.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16490241 (View on PubMed)

Hall, L., Hume, C., & Tazzyman, S. (2016). Five Degrees of Happiness: Effective Smiley Face Likert Scales for Evaluating with Children. In Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (311-321). ACM.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Cairney J, Clark HJ, James ME, Mitchell D, Dudley DA, Kriellaars D. The Preschool Physical Literacy Assessment Tool: Testing a New Physical Literacy Tool for the Early Years. Front Pediatr. 2018 Jun 7;6:138. doi: 10.3389/fped.2018.00138. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29930933 (View on PubMed)

Davison KK, Li K, Baskin ML, Cox T, Affuso O. Measuring parental support for children's physical activity in white and African American parents: the Activity Support Scale for Multiple Groups (ACTS-MG). Prev Med. 2011 Jan;52(1):39-43. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.11.008. Epub 2010 Nov 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21111755 (View on PubMed)

Carson V, Boyd M, Potter M, Rhodes R, Liu S, Naylor PJ. Protocol for the PLAYshop randomised controlled trial: examining efficacy of a virtually delivered parent-focused physical literacy intervention for early childhood on child-specific and family-specific outcomes. BMJ Open. 2022 Dec 22;12(12):e066962. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066962.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36549741 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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PLAYshop2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id