On-line Treatment for Conduct Problems
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Online Parent Management Training (Interactive)
- Conditions
- Conduct Disorder
- Sponsor
- Yale University
- Enrollment
- 86
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Child Behavior Checklist
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 2 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The research evaluates the use of online versions of delivering an effective psychological treatment for children clinically referred for serious oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. The goal is to develop models of delivery that reach families in need that are not being served by in-person treatment. The project has immediate implications for the treatment of children but more generally addresses several issues critical to treatments that are based on Internet, telepsychiatry, and related technologies.
Investigators
Alan E. Kazdin
Principal Investigator
Yale University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Diagnosis of Conduct Disorder of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (for the child)
- •Residence in the state of CT
- •Access to a computer and high-speed Internet access
- •English fluency (at least one parent)
- •No history of significant developmental delay (for the child)
- •Parental consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participation in another form of psychotherapy or counseling that is directed toward the reduction of social, emotional, or behavioral problems
- •Evidence of recent suicidality (for the child)
- •Current or lifetime diagnosis of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- •Primary diagnoses of a mood or anxiety disorder
- •Acute family crisis
- •Parent or guardian who can participate in treatment shows current psychosis or an uncontrolled medical condition
Arms & Interventions
Online treatment, High therapist contact
Participants receive online Parent Management Training (interactive).
Intervention: Online Parent Management Training (Interactive)
Online treatment, Low therapist contact
Participants receive online Parent Management Training (recorded).
Intervention: Online Parent Management Training (Recorded)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Child Behavior Checklist
Time Frame: Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8)
Internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in children
Child Global Assessment Scale
Time Frame: Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8)
Therapist-rated measure of overall child impairment and functioning
Interview for Antisocial Behavior
Time Frame: Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8)
Presence of a broad range of overt and covert antisocial behaviors in children
Research Diagnostic Interview
Time Frame: Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8)
Clinical symptoms and diagnoses based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) criteria
Secondary Outcomes
- Barriers to Participation in Treatment (Therapist version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Weekly Participation in Treatment(Weekly (during treatment))
- Treatment Adherence Inventory (Therapist version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Parenting Stress Index(Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Management of Child Behavior Scale(Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Parent-Therapist Relationship Scale (Therapist version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Barriers to Participation in Treatment (Parent version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Beck Depression Inventory(Change from pretreatment (Week 0; immediately before the start of treatment) to posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Treatment Adherence Inventory (Parent version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Parent Evaluation Inventory(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Parent-Therapist Relationship Scale (Parent version)(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Therapist Evaluation Inventory(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Acceptability of Treatment Modality(Posttreatment (immediately after treatment is completed; Week 8))
- Parent-Therapist Relationship Scale (Therapist version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Parent-Therapist Relationship Scale (Parent version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Barriers to Participation in Treatment (Therapist version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Barriers to Participation in Treatment (Parent version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Treatment Adherence Inventory (Therapist version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Treatment Adherence Inventory (Parent version)(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Therapist Evaluation Inventory(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Parent Evaluation Inventory(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))
- Acceptability of Treatment Modality(Midtreatment (Week 4 of treatment))