Helping young children follow healthy daily activity, sleep, and screen-time routines at home
A home-based intervention to improve adherence to the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines in young children
This project uses a smartphone program and home monitoring to help parents improve their young children's activity, sleep, and screen-time habits.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Kansas Medical Center NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Kansas City, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11325699 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
You and your child would answer brief mobile prompts about activity, sleep, and screen use while your child wears a small activity monitor at home. The team will look at daily patterns and the situations around those behaviors and talk with parents to learn what helps or gets in the way. They will use parent feedback to build a smartphone program with simple behavior-change tips and features. Finally, they will try the program with families to see whether it helps children improve their daily routines.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are parents or caregivers of children aged 0–11 years, especially those from minority or low-income households, who can use a smartphone and have their child wear a small activity monitor.
Not a fit: Families without reliable smartphone access, children with medical conditions that severely limit movement, or those unwilling to complete mobile prompts may not receive benefit from this intervention.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could help young children get more activity, better sleep, and healthier screen-time habits, which may lower risks for behavioral issues, delayed development, and obesity.
How similar studies have performed: Past studies have improved single behaviors like physical activity or sleep, but combining real-time mobile prompts, wearable monitoring, and an app to target all three daily movement behaviors is relatively new.
Where this research is happening
Kansas City, United States
- University of Kansas Medical Center — Kansas City, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Kracht, Chelsea L — University of Kansas Medical Center
- Study coordinator: Kracht, Chelsea L
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.