Parent Engagement Package: Comparing Strategies for Engaging Parents Into Parenting Programs

Patient Compliance Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness Trial of Methods for Engaging Parents Into Parenting Interventions

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03147716
• Other study ID #: STUDY00001365
• Secondary ID: R01DA033352
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2013
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Arizona State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study tests the effectiveness of different strategies for engaging parents into an evidence-based parenting skills intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, offered universally to parents of children attending one of six public elementary schools.

Description:

Parenting skills programs have been shown to help prevent youth substance use and mental health disorders. Unfortunately, few parents participate in parenting programs when given the opportunity. Thus, developing effective strategies to increase engagement in effective preventive parenting interventions is essential for these programs to have a significant public health impact. The purpose of this study is to identify parent engagement strategies that increase participation in effective parenting programs and consequently improve parenting practices and children's well-being.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 854
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: April 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Is a caregiver of a child in kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade at a participating school (i.e.,"target child");

• The target child lives with the caregiver at least half of the time;

• The caregiver speaks English or Spanish;

• The caregiver is listed as one of the target child's parents/guardians in the school's records.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The target child is in a self-contained classroom due to cognitive or emotional disabilities;

• The caregiver is a kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade teacher at a participating school;

• The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study;

• The caregiver is participating in a competing parenting program at the school, the "Intensive Family Literacy program".

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Patient Compliance

Intervention

Other:
• Enrollment Flyer
Enrollment flyer that provided information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.
• Testimonial Booklet
Booklet that included quotes and photos from parents who had previously participated in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and/or their children who participated in the free childcare, as well as an enrollment form.
• Teacher Endorsement
Brief conversation between the parent and their child's teacher in which the teacher told the parent about the benefits of participating in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and recommended that the parent attend. The teacher also gave the parent a brochure that gave information about the Triple P program and an enrollment form.
• Provider Engagement Call
This was a manualized, 15-minute call from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program provider to a parent in which the provider elicited the parent's child-focused goals and showed how the parent's goals could be addressed by Triple P. The provider also helped the parent anticipate and problem solve possible barriers to attendance.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Arizona State University	Tempe	Arizona

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Arizona State University	Mesa Public Schools, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Parenting Intervention Attendance	Number of sessions a caregiver from a student's family attended the parenting intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program	Attendance at the Triple P Positive Parenting Program was collected once per week for 8 weeks
Secondary	Parenting Intervention Enrollment	Whether or not a family enrolled in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program by completing an enrollment form.	from the date engagement strategies commenced until the date the Triple P Positive Parenting Program began, up to 7 weeks
Secondary	Parenting Intervention Homework Completion	caregiver report of completion of Triple P Positive Parenting Program assignments between sessions	collected once per week for 7 weeks, at the beginning of each Triple P Positive Parenting Program sessions 2 through 8
Secondary	Parenting Intervention Session Involvement	group leader reports of the extent to which a caregiver actively participated in each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session attended	collected once per week for 8 weeks, after each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session
Secondary	Child Behavior Problems	parent and teacher reports of child behavior problem frequency and intensity	collected at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline
Secondary	Parenting Skills	parent report of parenting warmth and discipline	collected at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline