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An Intervention to Improve Motor Skills in Young Children

NCT03901300 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2024-03-29

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Summary

The goal of "PLAY" is to adapt and test a developmentally appropriate intervention delivered on a mobile app to parents, with the goal of teaching fundamental motor skill (FMS) proficiency to their preschool-aged children (ages 3 to 5 y). Seventy-two children (3 to 5 y of age) were randomized. Of these children, 36 parents were randomized to use the FMS app and 36 were randomized to use a version of the app that promotes unstructured PA as a comparator group. Parents in the FMS condition accessed instructional lessons, peer modeling videos, and activity breaks to deliver 720 minutes of targeted, structured FMS instruction time to their child over a 12-week period. Parents in the comparator arm used a version of the app that provides instructional lessons to promote the equivalent amount of unstructured PA for their child. Parents were asked to guide the intervention, as parental support, modeling, and co-participation predict children's engagement in PA.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity
  • Fundamental Motor Skills
  • Development, Child
  • Self-regulation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Fundamental Motor Skills App

Lessons will be provided over the app each week with notifications sent 5 days/week over 12 weeks specific to randomized experimental group.

BEHAVIORAL

Unstructured Physical Activity App

Lessons will be provided over the app each week with notifications sent 5 days/week over 12 weeks specific to randomized active comparator group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amanda Staiano, PhD · Pennington Biomedical Study Director

  • E. Kipling Webster, PhD · Augusta University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-01
Primary Completion
2020-02-10
Completion
2020-02-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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