The Parents Together trial aims to determine if the Parents Together program consisting of virtual parent group sessions and coaching calls, will result in better health outcomes for children. The program which is facilitated by a Public Health Nurse seeks to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours, help build strong family relationships, and promote child development and mental health.
This study will determine whether an intervention combining group-based parenting skills training and public health nurse coaching calls with a focus on healthy eating behaviours and nutrition, activity and sleep, compared to regular health care will lead to improved eating behaviours, movement behaviours, health and mental health in children aged 2-5 years and their caregivers. Healthy children will be identified through primary care practices participating in The Applied Reearch Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!). Families who participate in this study will be randomly assigned to one of the two study groups that will run for 6-months: Group A: Receive 8 weeks of group parenting education sessions and up to 4 public health nurse coaching calls. Group B: Receive regular health care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
128
parenting course and coaching calls
St. Michaels Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Clinic
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RECRUITINGThe Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RECRUITINGChild eating behaviours
Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Dietary intake and food environment
Parent reported measures of dietary intake, and food environment (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Nutritional risk
Nutrition Screeening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, Sleep Duration
Parent reported measures of physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep duration (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Physical activity
Parent reported measures of physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep duration (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Social and emotional development
Strengths and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Child development
Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 (ASQ-3)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Family psychosocial health
Parenting Stress Index (PSI) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Parenting
Parenting Scale
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Parenting sense of competence
Parenting Sense of Competency Scale-Revised (PSOC-R
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
sociodemographic, maternal and child characteristics
parent self-reported income, maternal education, ethnicity, immigration status, and marital status, questions about parents health, exposures during pregnancy, family medical history (based on the Canadian Community Health Survey)
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
zBMI
Measure the difference in age and sex-standardized BMI z-score (zBMI) using child height and weight
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Waist circumference
Measure waist circumference using a tape measure
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
Blood pressure
Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children Measurement of diastolic and systolic blood pressure in children
Time frame: 6 months post-randomization
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