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Filter by:Despite being more likely than typical hearing children to experience disruptive behavior problems, children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) rarely receive behavioral interventions to prevent the long-term costly outcomes of behavior problems. This pilot project will systematically adapt an evidence-based behavioral parent training (BPT) intervention to increase its acceptability and relevance for parents of young DHH children. Two parents of DHH children will be trained in the adapted BPT for DHH children. They will each deliver the intervention to five families with DHH preschool-aged children.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Latino parent-focused education that combines enhancing parent engagement, building quality parent-child relationships, promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and engaging families with community resources for healthy foods on youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status.
The Fathers' Support Center, in partnership with the Brown School Evaluation Center at Washington University in St. Louis, seeks to evaluate the impact of their New Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Family Formation Program (NPFF). The investigators are most interested in quantifying the added benefit of parenting, father-child engagement, and father well-being curriculum compared to course content containing 80 hour economic stability material only. The impact evaluation will answer four key outcome and implementation specific questions using a mixed methods approach. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups (full program or 80 hour economic stability curriculum only) and tracked for the duration of the program. The impact evaluation tools include a set of validated instruments and will be administered to participants at baseline and again at three and twelve months after completion of the program. Performance measurement data will also be included in our analysis. Investigators hypothesize that participation in the full program will have a greater effect on key outcomes than the economic stability curriculum, a similar number of families will be reached by each condition, and that there will be minimal variability in retention rates across groups.
Objective: This randomized and controlled trial was aimed at exploring the effect of a new mentalization-focused 4D interactive ultrasound and a week-by-week pregnancy diary intervention with substance-abusing pregnant women. Method: Pregnant women referred to the hospital maternity outpatient clinic from primary health care due to substance abuse were recruited to participate in a randomized and controlled study. At admission, a psychiatric nurse offered all eligible women an opportunity for participation. A written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. The participants were randomized into the intervention and control groups using a computer-generated block-randomization with block size of four. A separate randomization assignment was used for women in medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence. The intervention group subjects were offered three mentalization-focused interactive 4D ultrasounds at 24, 30 and 34 gestational weeks and a mentalization-focused week-by-week pregnancy diary combined with three antenatal sessions and an option for one diary session after delivery. The control group received active treatment as usual in an obstetric tertiary setting. The pregnant woman and the child were followed-up until the child was one year old. The primary outcome was prenatal maternal depressive symptoms post-intervention, and secondary outcomes were anxiety symptoms, prenatal parental mentalization, maternal-fetal attachment and substance abuse. Other outcomes were utilisation of prenatal care, perinatal outcome, neonatal withdrawal symptoms and neonatal neurobehavior, postnatal maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms, parental mentalization, experienced stress from parenting and experienced social support, and emotional connection and commitment with the baby. The study was conducted at the hospital maternity outpatient clinic for substance-abusing pregnant women at Turku University Hospital (Finland) between October 2011 and December 2015. The registration of the trial is made retrospectively, but the research plan and outcomes are reported in this registration as they were originally documented in the research plan approved by The Joint Ethics Committee of the University of Turku and the Hospital District of Southwest Finland on 14th of June 2011.
The proposed specific aims of this K01 pilot study were: 1. Develop a culturally adapted and web-enhanced version of the Parent Management Training-the Oregon model (GenerationPMTO) intervention for first generation Hispanic families with youth. 2. Implement a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) with the culturally adapted and web-enhanced version of the GenerationPMTO intervention. 3. Systematically examine the implementation feasibility (i.e., rates of engagement, retention, and cultural acceptability) and initial efficacy of the adapted intervention (i.e., reduced parental stress and depression, increased quality of parenting skills, reduced levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviors in youth, and reduced adolescent substance use likelihood).
Picky eating behaviour in young children is a very common concern for parents. The aim of the study is to investigate factors during early life which are associated with a child becoming a picky eater.
Parental constraint of outdoor play may be fueling unhealthy emotional and physical development in today's children and adolescents. Time spent outdoors is a key determinant of unstructured play and overall physical activity levels, both of which are crucial to optimal development in youth. Modern barriers - such as crime, poor social ties among neighbors, and unsafe physical environments - constrain parental practices and reduce opportunities for outdoor play in children and youth. Low levels of perceived collective efficacy, a measure of perceived neighborhood cohesion and the collective capacity to solve neighborhood problems, has been proposed as a social environmental factor that constrains outdoor play by parents either attempting to avoid potentially dangerous situations or using defensive behavior by upgrading security measures. Moreover, incivilities in the neighborhood physical environment (e.g. litter, graffiti, blighted property) may influence parents' perceived collective efficacy. Consequently, a child's ability to achieve the recommended minimum of 60 minutes of daily physical activity may be limited by a complex interaction between neighborhood social and physical environmental factors and the extent to which parents respond by constraining offspring outdoor play. The central hypothesis of this research is that modifiable factors in the neighborhood social and physical environment result in parental constraint of offspring outdoor play, which reduces overall physical activity during critical years of development. This research will use qualitative methods to generate a comprehensive understanding of how and which environmental factors play a crucial role in parental constraint of outdoor play and promote low levels of within-neighborhood physical activity. This ancillary study will recruit 32 parents/guardians of participants from the parent study, Translational Investigation of Growth and Everyday Routines in Kids (TIGER Kids) Study (USDA 3092-51000-056-04A), to participate in in-depth interviews. My ultimate goal is to use knowledge gained from this ancillary study to generate community-based interventions that will target neighborhood factors to successfully reduce parental constraints on outdoor play.
The objective of this study is to implement a Video Feedback (VF) intervention to enhance Parental Reflective Function in primary caregivers of inpatient psychiatric children. Because there is no published research using VF with parents of children with severe psychopathology and in hospitalized context, this study is a pilot study. The research will include a qualitative and quantitative study; it will take place in a public hospital in Valparaíso, Chile. In the qualitative study, participants will be six primary caregivers who received the intervention and three stakeholders from Child Unit. For caregivers a semi-structured interview will be applied to know subjective experience gained by intervention regarding the perceived satisfaction. For health professional also a semi-structured interview will be applied to collect information pertinent to the feasibility of performing such intervention. The information obtained from the interviews will be analyzed with Grounded Theory model. The quantitative study will be conducted amongst all tutors of children aged between 6 and 14 hospitalized in a child psychiatry ward between August 2017 and December 2018. The expected sample size is 30 subjects in total; 10 for the control group and 20 for the experimental group. A four module of Video Intervention Therapy (VIT) was designed, each module includes a (video recorded) play session and a group VF session. The evaluation of the caregivers at the beginning of the intervention will include a psychosocial questionnaire, GHQ-12 , Five Minutes Speech Sample (FMSS) where RF will be codified, Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis - Structure Questionnaire (OPD.SQ). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire will be applied to children, in addition to the Children Global Assessment Scale, (CGAS). After every VF session a new FMSS, GHQ-12 and CGAS will be made. A follow-up will be performed three months after the beginning of the intervention with FMSS, GHQ-12 for caregivers and SDQ and CGAS for children. To determine Effect Size and Intra Class Correlation, the results will be analyzed using a multiple linear regression.
Children's risky play is associated with a variety of positive developmental, physical and mental health outcomes, including greater physical activity, self-confidence and risk management skills. Children's opportunities for risky play have eroded over time, limited by parents' fears and beliefs about risk, particularly among mothers. We have developed a digital and in-person workshop version of a tool to reframe parents' perceptions of risk. We examined whether the tool increased mothers' tolerance for risky play and influenced parenting behaviour change, in the short and long term, and whether these changes were greater than those in the control group. We conducted a single-blind (researchers and outcome assessors) randomized controlled trial and recruited a total of 410 mothers of children aged 6-12 years. The risk reframing (RR) digital tool is designed for a one-time visit and includes three chapters of self-reflection and experiential learning tasks. The RR in-person tool is a 45-90 minute facilitated workshop in which participants were guided through discussions of the same tasks contained within the digital tool. The control condition consisted of reading the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play. Primary outcome was increased tolerance of risk in play, as measured by the Tolerance of Risk in Play Scale. Secondary outcome was self-reported attainment of a behaviour change goal that participants had set for themselves. We tested the hypothesis that there would be differences between the experimental and control groups with respect to tolerance of risk in play and goal attainment.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a family counseling intervention, entitled "Tuko Pamoja" (Translation "We are Together" in Kiswahili). The intervention, delivered by lay counselors and through existing community social structures, is expected to improve family functioning and individual mental health among members. The sample includes highly distressed families with a child or adolescent (ages 8-17) exhibiting emotional or behavioral concerns; as such, particular emphasis is placed on adolescent-focused outcomes, including mental health and well-being.