Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Official Title
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Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline

Conditions
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Discipline

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Play Nicely program
* Behavioral: Control


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Placebo Comparator: Control<br>Routine primary care. | Behavioral: Control<br>* Routine primary care.<br>|
| Experimental: Multimedia intervention<br> | Behavioral: Play Nicely program<br>* The intervention was the Play Nicely program, a multimedia educational program. Permission to demonstrate the program to multiple viewers was obtained from the copyright holder. English speaking caregivers viewed the 2nd English language edition and Spanish speaking caregivers viewed the Spanish edition. In the program, there are 16 options (20 options in the Spanish version) to respond to the hypothetical situation of witnessing a young child have hurtful behavior toward another child. Caregivers in the intervention group were instructed to view 4 of the interactive options of their choosing. On average, it takes 1 minute to view one option. Parents in the control group received routine primary care with their pediatrician.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Parents' report of number of minutes of discussion between physician and parent about childhood behavior or discipline. |  | Same day | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Parents' plans to discipline their children