Early Movers Pilot Intervention

The Early Movers Pilot Intervention: Encouraging Healthy Movement Behaviours in Infants

Our Early Movers longitudinal study found that adherence to the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines in infancy is low across demographic groups, impacting overall development. Early Movers is a parent-focused intervention designed to increase dissemination and activation of the 24-Hour Movement Behaviour Guidelines for the Early Years. It adapts an established Australian intervention called INFANT. An important first step is conducting a pilot study.

Our goal is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the Early Movers intervention, a scalable, theory-based, parent-focused intervention designed to increase dissemination and activation of the 24-Hour Movement Behaviour Guidelines for the Early Years.

Primary Objectives:

1. Explore the feasibility of the Early Movers intervention protocol, including recruitment, retention, data collection, and procedures. Specifically, we will examine:

   1. the willingness of first-time parents to enroll and remain in the study,
   2. data collection completion rates, and
   3. the integrity of the protocol components to all work together and run smoothly.

2. Explore the acceptability of the intervention by parents and public health staff.

Inclusion Criteria:

-First time parents of infants who are aged 2 months 0 days through 2 months 30 days at baseline.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parents who do not confidently speak or read English
• Infants who are regularly cared for by an adult other then their parent/guardian for a number of hours per week (e.g. full time child care)
• Infants born preterm (gestational age <37 weeks)
• Infants born underweight (<2500 g)
• Infants with a medical condition or health complication since birth that could impact their movement behaviours and/or development