Child Behavior Clinical Trial
Official title:
Parenting Matters: Helping Parents With Young Children
Sleep and discipline problems are the most common problems for parents of young children (ages 2 to 5 years old) and are the two concerns with the strongest relations to future child behavior problems. The Parenting Matters program combines treatment booklets and telephone support to help parents deal with sleep or discipline problems. Parents with concerns and who are interested in the study are identified during a visit to their family physician. We, the investigators at the University of Western Ontario, expect that parents receiving treatment booklets, along with usual care by their family physician, will have greater reductions in their child's sleep or discipline problems, improved parenting practices, and greater reductions in child behaviour problems after receiving the Parenting Matters intervention, compared to parents receiving usual medical care.
About 1 in 5 young children (ages 2 to 5 years) has a significant psychosocial problem, but
over 80% do not receive treatment. Without treatment, up to half of these children will have
problems into childhood and adolescence. New methods of treating and preventing children's
psychosocial problems are needed.
Sleep and discipline problems (or child non-compliance) are the most common problems for
parents of young children, and are the two concerns with the strongest relations to future
child behavior problems. Further, parenting practices have consistently been linked to the
development of psychosocial problems. The Parenting Matters program combines treatment
booklets and telephone support to help parents with sleep or discipline problems among young
children.
Objectives:
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program interventions for sleeping and
bedtime behaviors (Trial 1), and discipline (Trial 2) in reducing problem-specific
outcomes.
- Test the effects of the Parenting Matters program interventions for parents who are
concerned about both their children's sleep and discipline (Trial 3) in reducing
problem-specific outcomes related to sleep (Group 1) and discipline problems (Group 2)
will be tested.
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program in improving parenting practices.
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program in reducing child behaviour problems
in general.
- Examine predictors of treatment success.
Method:
All parents of 2 to 5 year-olds seen in a family practice for a routine appointment are asked
to complete a psychosocial concerns checklist. Parents who have concerns regarding their
child's sleep (Trial 1), how to discipline their child (Trial 2), or concerns about both
their child's sleep and discipline (Trial 3), and meet the other study criteria, are invited
to take part in the study. Mailed baseline assessment packages assess children's behavior,
parenting practices and potential predictors of treatment success.
Parents are randomized to usual care, or the Parenting Matters program along with usual care.
The Parenting Matters program includes treatment booklets addressing either sleep or
discipline problems, and telephone coach support (3 calls over 6 weeks).
Primary outcomes are parents' ratings of their children's sleep or discipline problems
measured at post-treatment (7 weeks after baseline). Parents repeat assessment packages at 3-
and 6-month follow-ups.
Goals & Relevance:
This research addresses the need for new ways of providing early interventions for young
children that:
- reach the largest number of individuals in need;
- are cost effective; and
- time efficient.
By addressing the most common issues facing parents of young children, it engages parents in
areas of direct relevance to them. The program focuses on parenting practices thereby
building family strengths that may have a lasting impact on child development. Collaboration
with family physicians builds on the ongoing positive relationships between parents and
family physicians and provides a mechanism to reach a significant proportion of young
children.
;
Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
---|---|---|---|
Completed |
NCT06039462 -
Virtual Reality Distraction Therapy in Paediatrics
|
N/A | |
Terminated |
NCT02896426 -
Collaborative Problem Solving vs. Positive Solutions for Families in Preschool Parent Groups
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT02145273 -
Healthy Moms-Healthy Kids: Reducing Maternal Depression for Better Outcomes in Head Start Children
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT01683565 -
Preemie Tots: A Pilot Study to Understand the Effects of Prematurity in Toddlerhood
|
Phase 4 | |
Completed |
NCT03026335 -
Childhood Resiliency Effects for School-wide Treatment in Belize City
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT05334433 -
Child Behavior After Local Anesthetic Injection Using Needless Systems
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT06185413 -
Children's Cooperation Denmark: a 3-year System Dynamics Trial
|
N/A | |
Enrolling by invitation |
NCT06057090 -
Do Therapy Dogs Improve Behavior and Reduce Anxiety in Pediatric Dental Patients?
|
N/A | |
Terminated |
NCT04075071 -
A Pilot Study of Teacher-Child Interaction Training - Universal in Head Start
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT05828264 -
The Effect of "Quantum-Touch" on Pain, Fear, and Anxiety of the Children
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT05854355 -
Children- Sit Less, Move More (C-SLAMM): Increasing Physical Activity and Decreasing Sedentary Behaviour in Children
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT04633434 -
Evaluation Study of Talk Parenting Skills
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT04627415 -
Project PEAK: Early Intervention for ADHD
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT06052878 -
Neurodevelopmental Outcome After Prenatal Anesthesia
|
||
Recruiting |
NCT04107506 -
The Supporting Early Learning Study
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT06140017 -
Achieving Sustained Early Child Development Impacts at Scale: A Test in Kenya
|
N/A | |
Not yet recruiting |
NCT06138405 -
Dental-Child Interaction Training
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03015337 -
Relationship of Motor Skill Competency and Physical Fitness to Physical Activity in Elementary School Students
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03400566 -
Effects of Experiential Learning on Vegetable Intake in Preschool Children
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT06064578 -
The Ukrainian Student Problem Solving Project
|
N/A |