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Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Discipline
Interventions
Behavioral: Control
Behavioral: Play Nicely program
Registration Number
NCT00875303
Lead Sponsor
Vanderbilt University
Brief Summary

Play Nicely, is a 40 minute, interactive, media-rich, CD ROM that teaches parents, health care professionals, counselors, and child care workers/teachers the basics in aggression management for children ages 1-7. For more information about the program and to review results of previous studies, see www.playnicely.org. The objective of this study is to determine if using this brief intervention during the well child visit can affect parents' plans to discipline their children.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
258
Inclusion Criteria
  • English or Spanish speaking parents of 1-5 year old children presenting to the Vanderbilt Primary Care Clinic for a well child visit.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Caregiver could not speak English or Spanish.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ControlControlRoutine primary care.
Multimedia interventionPlay Nicely program-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
As a result of the well child visit, parents' plans to change how they discipline their children.Same day as well child visit.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Parents' report of number of minutes of discussion between physician and parent about childhood behavior or discipline.Same day

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Vanderbilt Pediatric Primary Care Clinic

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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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