Tuning in to Teens: A parenting intervention for promoting parents' emotion socialisation practices and preventing internalising and externalising difficulties in early adolescence

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Parents' emotional competence; Parents' emotion socialisation practices; Family functioning; Child internalising (internalisiation of problems in early adolescence; e.g., anxiety, depression, somatic complaints); Child externalising (externalisation of problems in early adolescence; e.g., conduct problems, hyperactivity); Public Health - Health promotion/education; Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

• Registration Number: ACTRN12612000391875
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Melbourne

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2012-04-05
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 220

Inclusion Criteria

Primary carer (males or females; age range was not restricted, parents ranged in age from 32 - 65.8 years; Mean age = 44.1) with Grade six child (male or female; age range was restricted to 11-13 years; Mean age of child participants was = 12.01)

Exclusion Criteria

Parents without sufficient English language skills to answer questionnaires or understand the program content were excluded. Children with a primary diagnosis of a communication or pervasive developmental disorder were excluded

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parental mental health<br>Assessed via self-report questionnaires using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28; Goldberg, 1981; Goldberg & Williams, 1991).[pre intervention (when child was in Grade six), post intervention and when child was in Term 2 in Grade 7.];Parent emotional competence<br>The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) was used to assess parents' self-reported difficulties with emotion awareness and regulation.[pre intervention (when child was in Grade six), post intervention and when child was in Term 2 in Grade 7.];Parent emotion socialisation practices<br>The Emotions as a Child Scale (EAC- parent self-report version; EAC- child-report version; Magai, 1996) was used to measure parent emotion socialisation practices.[pre intervention (when child was in Grade six), post intervention and when child was in Term 2 in Grade 7.]