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PLAY (PhysicaL ActivitY) Policy Study

NCT03695523 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 278

Last updated 2019-10-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study examines the effectiveness and appropriateness of a written physical activity policy implemented in licensed centre-based childcare on the physical activity levels of toddlers (1-2) and preschoolers (3-5 years). Half of the childcare centres will adopt the physical activity policy while the other half will continue with their typical daily programming and care. It is hypothesized that children enrolled in childcare centres that adopt the policy will display increased levels of physical activity during, and after participating in the policy intervention compared to children enrolled in centres that do not adopt the policy.

Conditions

  • Motor Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

PLAY (PhysicaL ActivitY) Policy Intervention

An evidence-based physical activity policy that was developed by researchers and childcare stakeholders and directed by the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years will be adopted by experimental group childcare centres for 8 weeks. The policy incorporates 8 items (i.e., encouraging children to engage in higher intensity energetic play often, aiming to accumulate 40 minutes each day, exposing children to a variety of indoor and outdoor physical activities, child-directed and teacher-facilitated active play daily, short bouts of outdoor time for a total of 120 minutes each day made up of primarily unstructured free play, encouraging physical literacy by practicing fundamental movement skills, not exposing children to screen-based technology during childcare, and purposefully breaking up sustained sedentary time using physical activities).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Western University, Canada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Trish Tucker, PhD · University of Western Ontario, Canada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-17
Primary Completion
2019-06-29
Completion
2019-06-29

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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