A Randomized and Controlled Trial Using Circle of Security-Parenting for Parents of Children Referred to Child Psychiatric Services.
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Child Behavior Problem
- Sponsor
- Region Syddanmark
- Enrollment
- 128
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Maternal sensitivity
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Background:The quality of attachment is greatly influenced by parental sensitivity. Attachment based interventions are designed to promote parental sensitivity, to change parental mental representations and to improve understanding of the developmental needs of the child. Very few studies have investigated the effect of attachment-based interventions on psychiatric symptoms in children. Targeting parental sensitivity and the parent-child interaction might have an important impact on psychiatric symptoms in a clinical sample of children referred to child psychiatric services.
Objectives: The primary objective is to investigate whether Circle of Security-Parenting (COS-P) has an effect on parental sensitivity in parents of children referred to child psychiatric services. The secondary objectives are to investigate the effect on children's behavioral and emotional symptoms and the parental stress and reflective functioning after 10 weeks of intervention and at the 24 week follow-up. The study is also exploring the effect of parental attachment style, parental stress and parental psychopathology on the effect of the intervention.
Methods: The trial will include 128 families of children (age 3-8 years) who are referred to child psychiatric services in a randomized and controlled design. Included families will be randomized to COS-P+ Treatment as Usual (TAU) or TAU only.
Perspectives: Considering the important impact of the quality of the parent-child relationship on the child's well-being, it is essential to target it in interventions and to investigate the relation with psychiatric symptoms. Generally there is a lack of interventions targeting parental sensitivity in psychiatric child populations. Working with the parents on the child-parent relation, might have an important impact on their children's current psychiatric symptoms and could additionally prevent future psychopathology.
Investigators
Aida Bikic
assistant professor, ph.d.
Region Syddanmark
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Children who score equal or above the 93d percentile on CBCL-total score
- •Score above 93d percentile on the CBCL- ODD or aggression scale
- •Informed consent from both custody.
Exclusion Criteria
- •For children:
- •autism spectrum disorders
- •serious psychopathology requiring immediate clinical attention
- •head injury or verified neurological disease
- •intelligence quotient (IQ) \<80
- •medical condition, requiring treatment
- •no informed consent from custody
- •For parents:
- •a diagnosis of schizophrenia
- •bipolar disorder
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Maternal sensitivity
Time Frame: after 10 weeks of intervention
Maternal sensitivity is measured by observing a mother-child interaction and is rated using "Coding Interactive Behavior" (CIB)
Secondary Outcomes
- Berkeley Puppet interview(24 week follow-up)
- Maternal Intrusiveness(24 week follow-up)
- Maternal Sensitivity(24 week follow-up)
- Dyadic reciprocity(24 week follow-up)
- Negative states(24 week follow-up)
- Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL)-Total score-parent rated(24 week follow-up)
- CBCL-ODD score-parent rated. Score range: 0-26. Higher indicates more problems.(24 week follow-up)
- Coping with childrens negative emotions scale(24 week follow-up)
- Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire(24 week follow-up)
- Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI)(24 week follow-up)