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Il existe un manque de ressources chez les infirmières pour intervenir efficacement auprès des parents afin qu’ils augmentent l’activité physique de leur enfant d’âge préscolaire. Intervenir est important étant donné les problèmes de surpoids et le bas niveau d’activité physique des jeunes enfants. Partant de la théorie du comportement planifié et d’autres construits, cette étude vise à identifier les déterminants de l’intention des parents de faire bouger davantage leur enfant âgé de trois à cinq ans. Un total de 282 parents d’enfant fréquentant 35 garderies à Québec ont rempli un questionnaire autoadministré dans cette étude descriptive corrélationnelle. Les résultats indiquent que la perception du contrôle, l’influence sociale, la norme morale, l’attitude, la régularité perçue du comportement et le taux d’activité physique des parents expliquent 75 % de la variance de leur intention. Ces informations pourraient être utilisées pour développer une intervention visant à améliorer l’intention des parents d’augmenter l’activité physique de l’enfant. / There is a lack of resources for nurses to work effectively with parents to increase physical activity of their preschooler. It is important to intervene given the problems of overweight and the low level of physical activity among young children. Based on the theory of planned behavior and other constructs, this study aims to identify the determining factors of parents’ intent to incite their children aged 3 to 5 years to be more active. A total of 282 parents, attending 35 child care centers in Quebec, completed a self-administered questionnaire in this descriptive correlational study. Results indicate that the perception of control, the social influence, the moral norm, the attitude, the regularity, and the amount of parents’ physical activity explained 75% of the variance of parents’ intention. These findings could be used to develop an intervention to improve or consolidate parents’ intent to increase their child’s physical activity.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In the fields of formal and informal online adult education, the absence of a social context for instruction has been found to present significant limitations for learner persistence and retention. In the field of online psychoeducational intervention, self-administered and self-paced individualized prevention programs have been developed for delivery to large populations of anonymous users. These delivery models provide limited social context for instructional activities, due in part to the anonymity of their participants. When social interaction is included in their prevention programs through voluntary, asynchronous self-help/mutual aid discussion forums, anonymity may still limit social interaction, in favor of observational learning advantages for self-efficacy appraisals derived from "lurking". When these large-group models have been applied to online psychoeducation intervention programs for the purposes of encouraging mutual aid, interactive participation has been limited. This mixed methods study focused on a model for the design of an online small group psychoeducational intervention that integrated individual and social learning in a parent management training program. Self-paced participation was replaced with facilitator-led participation in an asynchronous discussion forum where topics were prioritized and sequenced with learning content from individual web-based training modules. Social interaction was facilitated through online problem-based learning discussion group. Despite assertions that interactive participation in online psychoeducational discussion forums may only be accomplished once a subscriber threshold of several hundred participants has been reached, this study found that small group participation through the program's integrated design resulted large effects for increases in parent self-agency and reduction of over-reactive, coercive parenting behaviors. Participation in the online problem-based group discussion forum was found to have contributed to participant outcomes when posting characteristics revealed the presence of both mutual aid processes and the application of individual learning module content.