Screen Free Time With Friends Feasibility Trial

Summary

The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial is a study designed to inform development of a definitive trial. The feasibility trial aims to 1) examine the feasibility of an intervention aimed to limit recreational screen media use and promote more time with peers after school and during weekends among 10-11 year old children, 2) examine participant recruitment and retention rates, 3) examine the feasibility of the data collection plan and completeness of the compliance and outcome assessment, and 4) obtain baseline and follow-up data on the planned full trial primary outcome. The Screen Free Time with Friends Feasibility Trial will be conducted as a non-randomized single group feasibility trial including children, their parents and school and afterschool personal from 3rd grade school classes from different schools in the Region of Southern Denmark. The goal is to include a representative sample of children and parents in the participating 3rd grades, and thus there will be no individual level inclusion and exclusion criteria. A process evaluation and outcome measurements will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention, the data collection plan, and compliance. A baseline- and follow-up assessment will be carried out for some measurements, while others will be collected continuously during the intervention period.

Conditions

• Screen Media Use
• Time With Friends

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

School-based extracurricular intervention focusing on screen media use and time spent with friends

The intervention includes the following components: 1. Within each class parents will engage in two meetings combining education and parent-to-parent communication about 1) the children's leisure time activities, and 2) family and class screen time culture. Parents will engage in a short exercise focusing on screen media dilemmas conducted by the teacher in the beginning of 4th grade. 2. Children will engage in school hour workshops focusing on the class culture related to screen media use and leisure time activities. 3. Afterschool club personal will engage in mini actions learning program consisting of three workshops aimed to increase participation rate in the afterschool club. 4. Local stakeholders, e.g., parents, school- and afterschool club personal and others relevant to children's leisure time (e.g., sports clubs) will engage in workshops to adjust the predetermined intervention components (1-3 above) to fit their local context and to develop a local action plan.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Novo Nordisk A/S

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• University of Southern Denmark

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Anders Grøntved, PhD · Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

8 Years

Max Age

99 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-08-19

Primary Completion

2024-01-19

Completion

2024-01-19

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations