Family-based habit intervention to promote parent support for child physical activity in Canada: protocol for a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Regular physical activity (PA) participation has many important physical and psychological health benefits, managing and preventing over 25 chronic conditions. Being more physically active as a child is associated with being more active as an adult, but less than 10% of Canadian children are achieving the recommended PA guidelines of 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous PA. Parental support is a predictor of child PA, but parent intention to support child PA does not always predict enacted support. Targeting factors that assist in the sustainability of parent support behaviour of child PA may have an impact on child PA. The purpose of this study is to evaluate an intervention designed to promote habit formation of parental support (HABIT, independent variable) on

SUBMITTER: Medd ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200035 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature