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A Participatory Parental Intervention Promoting Physical Activity in Preschools

NCT00987532 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1047

Last updated 2023-05-11

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Summary

The aim of this study is to test whether a parent-focused participatory intervention in addition to gym lessons can enhance preschoolers physical activity compared to gym lessons alone.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

parent-focused intervention

The core of the parent-focused intervention is a menu of 15 easy to realize project ideas to promote the everyday physical activity of children and families. The 15 ideas are presented to the parents and teachers via a webpage, a printed book and a film. During a face-to-face meeting, parents and teachers are guided into discussions of their own preschool environment's and community's physical activity shortcomings and encouraged to generate their own ideas of how to enhance the physical activity of their families and preschools. Over the course of three structured follow-up meetings, parents and teachers are instructed to choose maximally 3 to 4 ideas from either the menu or the network's own ideas, and then are empowered to realize and implement them together.

BEHAVIORAL

twice weekly gym lessons

twice weekly one-hour gym lessons delivered by a specially trained external physical education teacher over 6 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baden-Württemberg Stiftung gGmbH

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joachim E. Fischer, MD, M.Sc. · Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2011-03-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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