Parenting Matters: Helping Parents With Young Children
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 548
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Sleep and discipline problems trial (Trial 3): parent report on the Children's Sleep Habit Questionnaire (Group 1-sleep treatment) and parent rated total problem score on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (Group 2-discipline treatment)
研究概览
简要总结
Sleep and discipline problems are the most common problems for parents of young children (ages 2 to 5 years old) and are the two concerns with the strongest relations to future child behavior problems. The Parenting Matters program combines treatment booklets and telephone support to help parents deal with sleep or discipline problems. Parents with concerns and who are interested in the study are identified during a visit to their family physician. We, the investigators at the University of Western Ontario, expect that parents receiving treatment booklets, along with usual care by their family physician, will have greater reductions in their child's sleep or discipline problems, improved parenting practices, and greater reductions in child behaviour problems after receiving the Parenting Matters intervention, compared to parents receiving usual medical care.
详细描述
About 1 in 5 young children (ages 2 to 5 years) has a significant psychosocial problem, but over 80% do not receive treatment. Without treatment, up to half of these children will have problems into childhood and adolescence. New methods of treating and preventing children's psychosocial problems are needed.
Sleep and discipline problems (or child non-compliance) are the most common problems for parents of young children, and are the two concerns with the strongest relations to future child behavior problems. Further, parenting practices have consistently been linked to the development of psychosocial problems. The Parenting Matters program combines treatment booklets and telephone support to help parents with sleep or discipline problems among young children.
Objectives:
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program interventions for sleeping and bedtime behaviors (Trial 1), and discipline (Trial 2) in reducing problem-specific outcomes.
- Test the effects of the Parenting Matters program interventions for parents who are concerned about both their children's sleep and discipline (Trial 3) in reducing problem-specific outcomes related to sleep (Group 1) and discipline problems (Group 2) will be tested.
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program in improving parenting practices.
- Test the efficacy of the Parenting Matters program in reducing child behaviour problems in general.
- Examine predictors of treatment success.
Method:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Parent (primary caregiver) of a 2-5 year old child
- •Attending a medical appointment at a family medical practice
- •Phone in home
- •Parent concerned about child's sleep and/or discipline
- •Parent interested in participating in a treatment study
排除标准
- •Parent non-English speaking
- •Child with significant physical or developmental disability
- •Parent's only sleep concern is in regards to a physiological sleep disorder (e.g. sleep apnea, snoring) or bedwetting
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment booklet and telephone coaching
干预措施: Self-help treatment booklet and telephone support (Behavioral)
Usual Care
干预措施: Usual care by a family physician (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Sleep and discipline problems trial (Trial 3): parent report on the Children's Sleep Habit Questionnaire (Group 1-sleep treatment) and parent rated total problem score on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (Group 2-discipline treatment)
时间窗: 7 weeks post randomization
Sleep and bedtime problems trial (Trial 1): parent report on the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire
时间窗: 7 weeks post randomization
Discipline problems trial (Trial 2): parent rated total problem score on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory
时间窗: 7 weeks post randomization
次要结局
- Daily recall ratings of sleep and discipline problems (3 reports in total)(4 & 6 weeks post randomization; 3- & 6-month follow-up; 12-month follow-up treatment group only)
- General child behavior problems-total problem score on the Child Behavior Checklist(7 weeks post randomization; 3- & 6-month follow-up; 12-month follow-up treatment group only)
- Parent report on the Richman sleep questionnaires (only for Trial 1-sleep and bedtime problems and for Trial 3 participants if in sleep treatment condition)(7 weeks post randomization; 3- & 6-month follow-up; 12-month follow-up treatment group only)
- Parenting practices-total score on the Parenting Scale(7 weeks post randomization; 3- & 6-month follow-up; 12-month follow-up treatment group only)