Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
PRCPAN (Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition), School of Education, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 2308, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 13;18(4):1830. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041830.
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.
父亲在塑造孩子的身体活动（PA）方面扮演着独特而重要的角色，与母亲无关。因此，同时关注父亲和孩子 PA 的基于生活方式的干预措施是一种新颖且有前途的方法，可以提高两者的 PA 水平。一项基于理论的生活方式干预措施是与父亲共同创建的（即“Run Daddy Run 干预措施”），使用行为改变轮作为理论框架。本研究的目的是描述 Run Daddy Run 干预研究的方案，重点是改善父亲和孩子的（共同）PA 水平以及预期的结果。该干预措施包括六个（互动）父子活动课程和一个电子健康组件，在 14 周的干预期间提供。基线测量将于 2019 年 11 月至 2020 年 1 月进行，2020 年 6 月进行测试后测量，2020 年 11 月进行随访测量，主要结果变量为（共同）PA。使用加速度计和在线问卷来测量结果。为了评估干预措施，将进行多层次分析。这项研究将增加我们对以下问题的理解：是否可以通过专门针对父亲及其孩子的基于理论、共同创建的生活方式干预来提高他们的（共同）PA 行为，这对未来的研究和健康政策具有重要意义，因为针对父亲可能是一种新颖而有效的方法，可以提高父亲及其孩子的（共同）PA 和相关健康行为。
