Family-Based Prevention to Promote the Social-Emotional Functioning and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Black & Latinx Children
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Child Behavior
- Sponsor
- University of South Carolina
- Enrollment
- 80
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- child physical activity
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The main objective of this project is to test whether providing parenting support, with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors, improves the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children.
Detailed Description
This pilot project is novel in that it (a) interweaves positive parenting practices, ethnic-racial socialization, and healthy lifestyle behaviors into a prevention program for Black and Latinx families, and (b) targets preschool-aged children using a brief, universal prevention approach, which increases potential for dissemination and scalability. The guiding hypothesis is that incorporating these components into a parenting intervention will lead to improvements in children's health as compared to a control condition. A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation design is used to simultaneously test intervention effectiveness while also gathering information on intervention delivery to inform future implementation trials. The specific aims are to: (a) test the preliminary effects of a preventive intervention on the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children, (b) identify the preliminary effects of the intervention on parenting outcomes, and (c) examine potential barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery.
Investigators
Daniel Cooper
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Eligible children will:
- •be between the ages of 3-6 years
- •identify as Black/African American or Latinx/Hispanic
- •have a parent or caregiver willing to participate in the intervention that: (a) lives in the same household as the child ≥50% of the time, (b) has primary responsibility for the child, and (c) speaks English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Consistent with typical methods associated with a universal prevention approach, there are minimal exclusion criteria. Children will be excluded who:
- •have a cognitive/psychological condition that limits the child's ability to communicate
- •have a physical health condition that limits the child's ability to be physically active
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
child physical activity
Time Frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
Time spent sedentary and in light, moderate, and vigorous physical activity each day will be collected using a waterproof accelerometer. Validated methods will be used to identify valid days and derive activity intensities.
child social-emotional functioning
Time Frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
Parent-reported assessment of various positive and negative child behaviors. Likert scale values range from 0 to 2, with higher values typically indicating greater dysfunctional behavior.
child sleep
Time Frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
Child average nightly sleep duration and quality will be calculated from data obtained using a waterproof accelerometer.
Secondary Outcomes
- parenting practices(pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8))
- ethnic-racial socialization practices(pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8))