Recruiting

Family Function

Sponsor:

University of Victoria

Code:

NCT06098716

Conditions

Physical Activity

Family Functioning

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 6 - 12

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Self Regulation

PA Support & Family Social Identity

Education

Study Details

Brief 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

Study ID

NCT06098716

Start date

Sep 1, 2024

Status verified date

Jun, 2025

Completion date

Mar 30, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 30, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 6 - 12

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Participants will be at least one parent with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 12 years.

Families (parents and/or guardians and children) residing in Canada. Children that participate in <60 minutes/day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).

Exclusion Criteria:

If child is meeting the current physical activity guidelines >=60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day.

If the participant does not pass the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ) If children's age falls outside the 6-12 year range

Study Design

Enrollment

165 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Education

The Education condition package will consist of Canada's PA guidelines, information about the benefits of child and adult PA, healthy living and a breakdown of ways for the parent to help their child achieve this PA.

experimental: Self Regulation

The SR condition will receive all of the same education material as the education condition in addition to skill training content (how to plan for family PA) based on our prior family trials. Families will be instructed to plan for "when," "where," "how," and "what" PA will be performed, and to create back-up plans commensurate with the creation of action and coping planning.

experimental: PA Support & Family Social Identity

The ID condition receives the same education and self-regulation content as the other groups, but with additional activities designed to strengthen (i) parents' PA-support identity and (ii) the family's shared PA social identity. Session 1 involves only the parent(s) and focuses on parental support identity. The content is based on the behaviour change principles of self-identity theory that should lead to increases in self-identity. This session's activities include: 1) bringing awareness to the concept of identity and being a role model, 2) an activity on finding the meaning and value of parental support of child PA, 3) an activity on setting prioritization rules around parental support for child PA in comparison to other parenting responsibilities and values (brainstormed), 4) developing an affirmation for parental support self-talk, and 5) planning ways to visually demonstrate the parental support identity for self-categorization (e.g., on social media, pictures in frames).

Interventions

Self Regulation

How to plan for Family PA

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.

Education

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

Primary outcome measure

  • Family cohesion [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sandy Courtnall

250 472 5288bml@uvic.ca

Locations

University of Victoria

Recruiting

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 2Y2

Contacts

Ryan RHODES

rrhodes@uvic.ca

Sandy Courtnall

scourtnal@uvic.ca

More Information

Sponsor

University of Victoria

Last update posted

Jun 26, 2025

Last verified

Jun, 2025

Keywords

  • Parenting Practices
  • Exercise
  • Family Functioning
  • Identity
  • Self-Regulation;
  • Parental Support

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Victoria on 2025-06-26.