Promoting family functioning through physical activity: a randomized trial to evaluate the “All in the Family” program
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Effective family functioning, such as communication, family organization, and family cohesion, is essential for family well-being and child development. Promoting family physical activity (PA) through shared activities offers a promising strategy for enhancing family dynamics. Developing a strong parenting PA identity (e.g., seeing oneself as a parent who supports their child's PA) and a family social identity around PA (e.g., perceiving the family as an active unit) may further strengthen motivation and commitment to engaging in PA. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of three family PA interventions: (1) PA education alone; (2) PA education + PA parenting self-regulation skills; and (3) PA education + PA parenting self-regulation skills + PA parenting identity. The primary outcome is family cohesion, a key dimension of family functioning. Secondary objectives include examining the effects of these interventions on (1) family-functioning dimensions of flexibility and organization, (2) child PA levels and parent-child co-participation in PA, (3) parental PA support and its potential antecedents (i.e., parental support constructs derived from the Multi-Process Action Control Framework, and parent-perceived family PA social identity), and (4) exploring potential moderating effects of seasonal variation, child and parent characteristics, intervention adherence, and PA type. METHODS: The three-armed, single-blind randomized controlled trial compares the efficacy of the three interventions over a 6-month period. Families are eligible if they have a child between the ages of 6 and 12 who is not meeting the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth. Participants are randomly assigned to one of the three intervention groups. Family functioning, child PA and parent-child co-participation in PA, parental PA support, family PA social identity, and related constructs (e.g., perceived capability and opportunity, behavioral regulation, and habit) are assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months post-intervention. Recruitment methods include social media, recruitment poster drops, and community-based promotion. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06098716. Registered on October of 2023, updated on August 2024.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".