A Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention Focusing on Fathers and Their Children Using Co-Creation: Study Protocol of the Run Daddy Run Intervention

Julie Latomme, Philip J. Morgan, Marieke De Craemer, Ruben Brondeel, Maïté Verloigne and Greet Cardon
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Julie Latomme: Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Philip J. Morgan: PRCPAN (Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition), School of Education, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 2308, Australia
Marieke De Craemer: Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Ruben Brondeel: Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Maïté Verloigne: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Greet Cardon: Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: Fathers play a unique and important role in shaping their children’s physical activity (PA), independent from the mother. Lifestyle interventions focusing simultaneously on PA of fathers and their children (“co-PA”) are therefore a novel and promising way to improve PA of both. A theory-based lifestyle intervention was co-created with fathers (i.e., the Run Daddy Run intervention), using the behavior change wheel as a theoretical framework. The aim of the present study is to describe the protocol of the Run Daddy Run intervention study, focusing on improving (co-)PA of fathers and children, and the prospected outcomes. The developed intervention consists of six (inter)active father-child sessions and an eHealth component, delivered over a 14-week intervention period. Baseline measurements will be conducted between November 2019–January 2020, post-test measurements in June 2020, and follow-up measurements in November 2020, with (co-)PA as the primary outcome variable. Outcomes will be measured using accelerometry and an online questionnaire. To evaluate the intervention, multilevel analyses will be conducted. This study will increase our understanding on whether a theory-based, co-created lifestyle intervention focusing exclusively on fathers and their children can improve their (co-)PA behavior and has important implications for future research and health policy, where targeting fathers might be a novel and effective approach to improve (co-)PA and associated health behaviors of both fathers and their children.

Keywords: study protocol; intervention; physical activity; fathers; children; families; eHealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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