Primary Care and Parenting

Parenting Clinical Trial

Official title:

Utilizing the Primary Care Setting to Deliver a Brief Program to Enhance Parenting Behaviors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03146572
• Other study ID #: 2014-0337_2
• Secondary ID: SDBP
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Start date: April 3, 2017
• Est. completion date: April 6, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this study to evaluate potential impact of a brief, low-cost primary care-based intervention of parenting self-efficacy, knowledge, and behavior.

Description:

Enriching parenting behaviors in early childhood promotes child development and offers a promising strategy to reduce future educational disparities. However, current interventions are limited by cost and have not been widely disseminated. Recognized as a target for research to improve early childhood development and subsequent school readiness skills among at-risk families, the primary care setting offers an ideal opportunity to reach the millions of children living in poverty. However, what remains unknown is how to more efficiently leverage the primary care setting to deliver a sustainable and effective preventive program to promote positive parenting behaviors and encourage early childhood development in low-income families. Therefore, the investigators designed Sit Down and Play (SDP) a brief parent-directed program delivered in the primary care setting. Modeled after the widely disseminated literacy program Reach Out and Read and grounded in social cognitive theory, SDP is intended to take place during each pediatric well-child visit occurring in a child's first two years with the goal of promoting positive parenting behaviors.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 61
• Est. completion date: April 6, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: February 11, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Months to 12 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Parent is 18 years or older Child is present for a 6, 9, or 12 month well-child visit who attends University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for well-child care Adult present with child at appointment is parent/caregiver of child

Exclusion Criteria:

Parent is non-English speaking Child is acutely sick

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Development, Child
• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Parenting

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Sit Down and Play
Sit Down and Play (SDP) is designed to be a brief, low-cost intervention that incorporates key theoretical constructs to elicit positive parenting behaviors. It is intended to be delivered by existing clinical staff, nonprofessionals, or volunteers during each of the eight well-child visits between 2-24 months of age while a family waits to be seen by their pediatrician in the examination room

Other:
• Handout
Handout providing written descriptions of strategies to encourage positive parenting behaviors

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Illinois at Chicago	Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Parental Knowledge	Change in parental knowledge regarding importance of talking with children	Enrollment and 7 months post-enrollment
Primary	Change in participation in cognitively stimulating activities	Change in participation in cognitively stimulating activities such as reading and play as measured by the StimQ	Enrollment and 7 months post-enrollment
Primary	Change in parenting self-efficacy	Change in perceived self-efficacy in parenting activity as measured by The Tool to Measure Parenting Self Efficacy	Enrollment and 7 months post-enrollment