Systematically Adapted Delivery of the Family Check-Up in Underserved Communities
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Parenting, Child Behavior, Implementation
- Sponsor
- Christina Studts
- Enrollment
- 51
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Feasibility: Enrollment
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Early childhood disruptive behavior problems lead to significant costs to families and society, but can be reduced with behavioral parent training interventions. To increase the public health impact of these interventions, their feasibility, accessibility, and acceptability in high-need, underserved communities must be ensured. This pilot project will systematically adapt and pilot-test the delivery model of an existing effective parent training intervention for implementation in rural Appalachia, a region with many documented health disparities, high levels of poverty, and shortages of mental health providers. Community health workers in 5 rural Appalachian counties will be trained to deliver a behavioral parent training intervention. Each worker will deliver the intervention to 4 parent-child dyads.
Investigators
Christina Studts
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Parents: aged 18+ years, custodial guardian of child, can speak/read/understand English
- •Children: ages 3-5 years, lives full time in custodial guardian's home
- •Community health workers: aged 18+ years, currently employed at a partnering health department, able to speak/read/understand English
Exclusion Criteria
- •Parents: has already accessed behavioral health services for the child, reports suicidal ideation or intent to harm self or others, participated in formative research for this study
- •Children: diagnosed with a severe developmental condition (i.e., significant developmental delay, autism, debilitating neurological condition)
- •Community health workers: none
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Feasibility: Enrollment
Time Frame: 2 weeks after final parent-child dyad completes the study
Percentage of invited parents who enroll in the study (obtained from process records)
Secondary Outcomes
- Interventionist satisfaction(2 weeks after final parent-child dyad completes study)
- Interventionist evidence-based practice attitudes(2 weeks after final parent-child dyad completes study)
- Interventionist self-efficacy(2 weeks after final parent-child dyad completes study)
- Feasibility: Number of sessions completed(2 weeks after final parent-child dyad completes the study)
- Feasibility: Interventionist-reported fidelity(following each behavioral parent training intervention session)
- Feasibility: Parent satisfaction(10 weeks after parent baseline)