Primary Care-based Program to Enhance Positive Parenting Practices

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Language; Children; Parenting; Development
• Interventions: Behavioral: Handout; Behavioral: Sit Down and Play

• Registration Number: NCT02871973
• Lead Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago

Brief Summary

The objective of this research is to conduct a small randomized pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of Sit Down and Play (SDP), a brief, low-cost program delivered in the primary care setting to enhance parent-child interactions and explore potential impacts on parenting behaviors.

Detailed 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 school readiness 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 intervention 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-08-15
• Study First Posted: 2016-08-18
• Primary Completion: 2018-07
• Study Completion: 2018-09
• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-12
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Parent is 18 years or older
• Child is present for a 2, 4, or 6 month well-child visit
• Adult present with child at appointment is parent/caregiver of child

Exclusion Criteria

• Parent is non-English speaking
• Child is acutely sick

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
CDC Handout	Handout	Families in the control group will receive the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Handout at enrollment.
SDP	Sit Down and Play	Families randomized to intervention group will receive Sit Down and Play while they wait in the waiting room to be seen by their primary care provider at current and subsequent well-child visit.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parental Self-Efficacy as measured by Parenting Sense of Competence Scale	3-4 months post-enrollment
Caregiver's participation in cognitively stimulating activities such as reading and playing using self-report measure StimQ	3-4 months post-enrollment

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Illinois at Chicago; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States