Clinical trial NCT02141048: Evaluation of the Parent Centre's Positive Parenting Skills Training.
Official title: Evaluation of the Parent Centre's Positive Parenting Skills Training: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting Behaviour
Child Behaviour Problems
Keywords: Parenting programme
Randomised controlled trial
South Africa
Positive parenting
Child behaviour problems
Implementation fidelity
Low- and middle-income country
Lead sponsor: University of Cape Town
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Parent Centre
First posted: 2014-05-16
Enrollment: 140
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Parent Centre's Positive Parenting Skills Training (PPST), a parenting programme being delivered in South Africa, is effective in improving parenting, and child behaviour related outcomes.

Detailed description: The evaluation of the PPST will assess both the fidelity of the intervention's implementation, as well as the outcomes of the programme in a randomised controlled trial. Programme facilitators and intervention group participants will provide data for the former. For the outcome evaluation, two types of participants will be recruited who will provide self-report data: primary caregivers (n = 80) and where possible another adult living in the home with this primary caregiver and their selected child (n = 60). This "other adult" data will serve to verify the primary caregivers' self-report data. Both participants will provide demographic information, and report on parenting behaviour and child behaviour. Their data will be analysed separately in intention to treat analyses and secondary analyses which consider moderators of programme effectiveness.

Eligibility criteria: This study will include two types of participants: (1) primary caregivers and (2) another adult. Both have separate eligibility criteria.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Primary caregivers (the person most responsible for the well-being of a child)

   * Has a child between the ages of 5-12 years
   * Looks after this child for a minimum of four nights a week
   * Indicated interest in the programme and expressed willingness to enrol in the study
2. Another adult in the household (if available)

   * Lives with the index child (selected by the formerly mentioned caregiver) for at least four nights a week

Exclusion Criteria:

(1) Primary Caregiver

- Has already participated in the Parent Centre's Positive Parenting Skills Training or the Parenting and Leadership Training

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parenting Scale (PS), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parent Behaviour Inventory (PBI), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parenting Young Children Scale (PARYC) - Setting Limits subscale, from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of child problem behaviour on the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of child problem behaviour on the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) - Externalising Problem subscale, from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in levels of a parent's sense of competence on the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of conflict and closeness in the parent-child relationship on the Child Parent Relationship Scale (CPRS), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
measure: Change in levels of child self-esteem on the Child Health Questionnaire - Self-esteem subscale (CHQ-ES), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cape Town
country: South Africa
facility: The Department of Psychology and the School of Management Studies, the University of Cape Town
state: Western Cape
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cape Town
name: Soraya N Lester, MPhil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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