Parent reported problem | Successful strategies used by parents | Parents’ suggestions for future intervention |
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Difficulty in remembering to wear the accelerometers | • Keeping the accelerometers in a visible place when they are taken off at night | • Allowing parents to opt in/out of a text reminder service was seen as a positive way to remind parents to wear the accelerometers |
• Making wearing the accelerometers a habit | ||
Lack of understanding about the accelerometers | • Spend more time explaining why parents are asked to wear the accelerometers | |
• Having the information translated into parents’ native language | ||
The accelerometers being uncomfortable or not practical to wear (for parents and children) | • Choosing to wear clothes with belt loops | |
Children feeling targeted at school due to being only child wearing the accelerometer | • Support from teachers and school staff | • Providing information on the project/physical activity for the whole class |
• Wearing the accelerometer underneath the school uniform | • Asking the whole class to be involved in the project | |
Children refusing to wear the accelerometers | • Parents encouraging their child to wear the monitor | |
• Some children were naturally interested and proud to wear the accelerometer | ||
Increasing motivation to wear the accelerometer for parents and children: Provision of data feedback | • Many parents and children were interested in seeing the results from the accelerometers | • Promoting to parents at the initial data collection that they will get feedback on their data |
• Knowing if their child was getting enough PA compared to the recommendations, knowing if they’d increased PA over the 3 time points, and having a comparison of other people or the average were all of interest |