NCT03695523.

Trial name or title	PLAY (PhysicaL ActivitY) policy study
Methods	Study design: Randomised controlled trial
Participants	Service type: Childcare services Region: London, Canada Number of services participating: approximately 8
Interventions	Number of experimental conditions: 2 (intervention, control) Policies, practices or programmes targeted by the intervention: ‐ encouraging children to engage in higher intensity energetic play often ‐ aiming to accumulate 40 minutes each day ‐ exposing children to a variety of indoor and outdoor physical activities ‐ child‐directed and teacher‐facilitated active play daily ‐ short bouts of outdoor time for a total of 120 minutes each day made up of primarily unstructured free play ‐ encouraging physical literacy by practicing fundamental movement skills ‐ not exposing children to screen‐based technology during childcare Implementation strategies: Not specified
Outcomes	Outcome relating to the implementation of childcare service policies, practices or programmes: ‐ Changes in children's sedentary time ‐ Changes in children's Moderate‐to‐Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) ‐ Environment and policy assessment and observation self‐report ‐ Director environment and policy assessment and observation self‐report
Starting date	October, 2018
Contact information	Trish Tucker, ttucker2@uwo.ca
Notes	ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03695523