Internet-based Universal Parent Training as a Booster to PATHS®: Parent Web

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Family Conflict; Family Dysfunction; Family Relations
• Interventions: Behavioral: Parent Web

• Registration Number: NCT05172297
• Lead Sponsor: Stockholm University

Brief Summary

To test an online parent training program. Relative to a matched comparison, those in the Parent Web (PW) will show benefits on well-being, parenting, stress, youth mental health. Parents of PATHS children are the immediate intervention group.

Detailed Description

Parent-Web (PW) is internet delivered and rooted in social learning and coercion theory, PW supports parenting practices and parent-child interactions encouraging prosocial behavior and emotion regulation, reduce coercive parenting, improve communication, problem solving, and warmth. PW has a universal and selective edition. Universal PW has 5 basic modules (1 module per week, 6-8 weeks) and bonus modules. Basic modules contain information, exercises, and videos of actors showing parenting practices. A family guide supports PW participants through PW modules. No published outcome evaluations of universal PW currently exist. However, benefits were found for selective PW. This study will test the effects of universal PW as a booster to PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) a universal school-based intervention designed to enhance child social emotional competence. All PW trial participants are parents to at least one adolescent child (aged 11-13). Immediate PW participants are parents who have a child that participated in PATHS at age 4-5 years old.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-28
• Study First Posted: 2021-12-29
• Study Start: 2022-10-21
• Primary Completion: 2024-08-31
• Study Completion: 2024-08-31
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-10
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 163

Inclusion Criteria

Immediate intervention group are parents of children aged 11-13 who participated in PATHS at age 4-5 years old.

Parents in the wait list comparison group have children who are matched to the children of parents in the immediate intervention group.

Matching criteria are:

Wait-list group parents' child's present-day gender (matching criteria 1) is the same as the matched child who's parents are in the immediate intervention group, wait-list group parents' child's present-day age is similar to the matched child who's parents are in the immediate intervention group, namely child birthdays within 6 months of each other (matching criteria 2), and wait-list group parents' children live in the same postal code as the matched immediate intervention group child (matching criteria 3), and matched children have all lived in Sweden since 2014 (matching criteria 4). If these 4-matching criteria are too restrictive and do not provide enough matches to recruit from, then the matching criteria will be reduced to points 1, 2, and point 3. Children do not participate in the Parent Web intervention trial, but parents of children do participate.

Exclusion Criteria

See inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Immediate Intervention Group	Parent Web	The immediate intervention group will take part in the online parent training program called the Parent Web (PW). This immediate intervention group are parents of PATHS children who took part in a social emotional curriculum (PATHS) at age 4 to 5 years old and during the PW trial will be 11 to 13 years old. Parents are participating in the Parent Web.
Wait-List Control Group	Parent Web	This is a group of parents who are in a wait-list control group and will receive the Parent Web, after pre and post testing.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in parent rated family warmth and conflict	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rated warmth and conflict. Warmth and conflict are indexed by eight items rated on a five-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (more than 7 times). Five items measure parent-child warmth and three items measure parent-child conflicts. Higher scores on parental warmth scale indicate a better outcome. Higher scores on the parent-child conflicts scale score indicate a worse outcome.
Change from baseline in parent rating of child's emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and prosocial behavior	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rating of their child's emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and prosocial behavior as indexed by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The SDQ consists of 25 items rated on a 3-point Likert scale with response options that range from 0 = not true, 1 = somewhat true, 2 = certainly true. Higher scores indicate a worse outcome on the emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems scale scores. Higher scores on the prosocial behavior scale indicate a better outcome.
Change from baseline in parent rated view of their child's behavioral problems/defiant behavior	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent view of their child's behavioral problems/defiant behavior as measured by the Oppositional Defiant Scale of the Disruptive Disorder Rating Scale (DBD) which consists of 7 items rated on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much). Higher scores indicate a worse outcome.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in parent rated encouragement of positive behaviors, setting limits, and proactive parenting behaviors	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rated encouragement of positive behaviors, setting limits, and proactive parenting behaviors as indexed by the Parenting Children and Adolescents Scale (PARCA). The PARCA has 19 items rated on a five-point scale 1 = never to 5 = Very Often. The scale has three subscales on encouragement of positive behaviors, setting limits, and proactive parenting behaviors. Higher scores indicate a better outcome.
Change from baseline in parent rated health	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rated health as measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD). HAD consists of two scales (a total of 14 items), one for anxiety and one for depression with seven questions each. Items are rated on a 4-point Likert scale. Higher scores indicate a worse outcome.
Change from baseline in parent rated stress	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rated stress as measured by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). PSS consists of 10 questions about perceived stress during the last month rated on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = Never to 4 = Very Often). The scale measures the extent to which situations in one's life are assessed and perceived as stressful and current stress levels. Higher scores indicate a worse outcome.
Change from baseline in parent rated parents validation of their child's emotions when expressed	Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1	Change from baseline up to 10 months later (immediate intervention group, two time points) and up to 20 months later (wait-list comparison group, three time points) in parent rated affective style as measured by the tolerating subscale of the Affective Style Questionnaire (ASQ). The ASQ consists of five items (rated on a 3 point Likert scale, 1 = Completely Agree to 3 = Completely Disagree) that examine how parents view their own validation of their child's emotions when expressed. Higher scores indicate a worse outcome.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Stockholm University; 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden