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All in the Family: Promoting Family Function Through Physical Activity

NCT06098716 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 165

Last updated 2025-06-26

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Summary

The goal of this trial is to find out whether adding identity-building and self-regulation training to basic healthy-living education helps families with inactive children (ages 6-12) become more cohesive and physically active. The main question it aims to answer is:

Does the identity + self-regulation + education program improve family cohesion more than (a) self-regulation + education or (b) education alone?

Researchers will compare three groups-identity+self-regulation+education (ID), self-regulation+education (SR), and education-only (ED)-to see which produces the greatest improvements.

Participants will:

1. attend three online workshops at baseline plus two booster sessions at 6-week and 3-month with a project coordinator;
2. complete online questionnaires at baseline, 6-week, 3-month, and 6-month;
3. take part in an exit interview at 6 months.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity
  • Family Functioning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self Regulation

How to plan for Family PA

BEHAVIORAL

PA Support & Family Social Identity

Exercises that strengthen parents' PA-support identity and a shared active-family identity through values reflection, role-modelling, visualization, and visible "active family" cues.

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Information about healthy living (e.g., PA, sleep hygiene and healthy eating)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Victoria

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ryan Rhodes, PhD · University of Victoria

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-01
Primary Completion
2028-03-30
Completion
2028-03-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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