Mother and Child Education Program in Palestinian Refugee Camps

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Parenting
• Interventions: Behavioral: MOCEP

• Registration Number: NCT02402556
• Lead Sponsor: Yale University

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP)-a group-based early childhood development parenting education program-is to provide school-readiness and parenting skills to mothers of young children who do not have access to preschool education services. The MOCEP intervention also provides a setting in which caregivers can model pro-social behaviors and practice conflict resolution techniques directly with young children.

Detailed Description

The purpose of the evaluation study is to rigorously evaluate the impact of MOCEP on child and parent outcomes among Palestinian refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. This evaluation employs an innovative, mixed-methods bio-behavioral approach to investigate the associations among social contexts; maternal, child and family functioning; and reduction in violence through the promotion of harmonious family relationships. The results of this study have implications for improving the lives of and reducing violence for the hundreds of thousands of families with young children living in fragile contexts. We hypothesize that when MOCEP is implemented with fidelity (i.e., delivered as intended by design), participating families will experience reduced violence in their homes and have better individual and intra-family outcomes than families who do not participate in the program.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-05
• Study First Submitted: 2015-03-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-03-27
• Study First Posted: 2015-03-30
• Primary Completion: 2016-09
• Study Completion: 2016-09
• Status Verified: 2016-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-01
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 106

Inclusion Criteria

1. Child must be between 3 and 6 years of age (children age 7 may be accepted under special circumstances)
2. Mother must be able to read and write in Arabic (although skills may not be well-developed)
3. Mothers must commit to participate in the 25-week MOCEP Intervention program

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Waitlist Control Group	MOCEP	For ethical reasons, no one recruited will be excluded from the opportunity to benefit from the intervention. MOCEP group will be the primary intervention group and the second group will act as the wait-listed control group. Although the families in the wait-listed control group will start out as a control group (not receiving the intervention), they will have the opportunity to participate in the intervention in a later round of implementation, after the intervention group has completed the program.
MOCEP	MOCEP	MOCEP is implemented over a period of 25 weeks, through weekly group meetings that last approximately three hours.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Disciplinary Style Questionnaire	25 weeks	Parent report measure of parental disciplinary style assesses the frequency with which parents engage in seven forms of discipline when dealing with children's undesirable behavior
Better Parenting Questionnaire	25 weeks	11 Item questionnaire that measures parental knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding education and learning, child development and discipline / child rearing.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Duke Social Support Index	25 weeks	Addresses social support in two domains: social interaction and subjective support
Socio-Emotional Status: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (child assessment)	25 weeks	Parent report measure assesses children's emotional and conduct problems, hyperactivity, and peer relations.
Parental Stress Index	25 weeks	Assessment of maternal stress

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Charila; 🇱🇧 Beirut, Lebanon

Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp; 🇱🇧 Beirut, Lebanon

Mar Elias Refugee Camp; 🇱🇧 Beirut, Lebanon