Parent Program to Improve Child Behavior Problems

Child Behavior Problems Clinical Trial

Official title: Improving Child Behavior Problems in the Primary Care Setting

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this research study is to learn whether or not a brief parenting program called Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) offered at a primary care office can help improve behavior problems in children who are 2-6 years old.

Clinical Trial Description

The study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the CARE intervention. The study will include 2-6 year old children who receive their primary care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, South Philadelphia Primary Care clinic and whose caregiver and/or doctor has concern about a behavior problem in the child. The caregivers will also be subjects in the study.

Child-caregiver pairs who agree to be in the study will be randomly assigned to receive the CARE training immediately or in 3-4 months.

The CARE intervention will last 6 weeks and child behavior and parenting will be measured at baseline, 6-8 weeks, and 14-18 weeks. Investigators will also measure parent satisfaction with the CARE intervention.

• Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) is a group parent training program.

• The goals of the program are to teach parents skills that help their children successfully reach developmental milestones while increasing positive behaviors.

• The program also was designed to help parents manage and decrease negative child behaviors.

• Each training will be led by 2 therapists and 4-10 parents will attend the CARE program together.

• Children do not attend the training but parents are encouraged to practice the skills learned at CARE between the sessions. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Behavior Problems
• Problem Behavior

• NCT number: NCT02049749
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2014
• Completion date: December 2016