The Effect of Primary Care Interventions on Children's Media Viewing Habits and Exposure to Violence

Violence Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Primary Care Interventions on Children's Media Viewing Habits and Exposure to Violence

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01490320
• Other study ID #: IRB# 100401
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 7, 2011
• Last updated: December 8, 2011
• Start date: June 2010
• Est. completion date: September 2010

Study information

• Verified date: December 2011
• Source: Vanderbilt University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents receive anticipatory guidance about violence prevention as part of the routine well child visit. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents will be exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents will be invited to participate in a research study to determine if they plan any changes at home. The key research question of this study is:

Can a brief multimedia program (i.e. Play Nicely program) and/or the AAP Connected Kids brochure, entitled, "Pulling the Plug on TV Violence", help parents develop plans to decreases their children's exposure to violence in the media (e.g. less media time, no TV in the bedroom)?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 336
• Est. completion date: September 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants included English and Spanish speaking caregivers of 2-12 year old children presenting to the pediatric primary care clinic for a well-child visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parents who could not speak either English or Spanish.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Violence

Intervention

Behavioral:
• AAP Handout entitled, Pulling the Plug on Violence.
This handout is two pages and is part of the Connected Kids Program, American Academy of Pediatrics
• Play Nicely Program
Multimedia program available at www.playnicely.org.

Other:
• Control Group
Standard care in primary care clinic.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Vanderbilt University Pediatric Primary Care Clinic	Nashville	Tennessee

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Vanderbilt University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. A brief primary care intervention helps parents develop plans to discipline. Pediatrics. 2010 Feb;125(2):e242-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0874. Epub 2010 Jan 18. — View Citation

Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. The effect of physician--parent discussions and a brief intervention on caregivers' plan to discipline: is it time for a new approach? Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 Aug;50(8):712-9. doi: 10.1177/0009922811400730. Epub 2011 Mar 10. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in media viewing habits	At the 2 week follow up phone call, parents were asked: "Since your clinic visit, have you made any changes related to your child's media viewing habits such as TV, movies, or computer games?"	Baseline and 2-4 weeks	No
Primary	Changes in exposure to violence.	At the 2 week follow up phone call, parents were asked: "Since your clinic visit, have you made any changes related to decreasing your child's exposure to violence, either violence in the media or violence at home?"	Baseline and 2-4 weeks	No

External Links

•   AAP Connected Kids Program
•   Access Play Nicely Multimedia Program