Clinical trial NCT00875303: Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline
Official title: Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Discipline
Keywords: Parents' plans to discipline their children
Lead sponsor: Vanderbilt University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
First posted: 2009-04-03
Enrollment: 258
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: As a result of the well child visit, parents' plans to change how they discipline their children.
timeFrame: Same day as well child visit.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parents' report of number of minutes of discussion between physician and parent about childhood behavior or discipline.
timeFrame: Same day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nashville
country: United States
facility: Vanderbilt Pediatric Primary Care Clinic
state: Tennessee
Study officials:
References:
citation: Scholer SJ, Brokish PA, Mukherjee AB, Gigante J. A violence-prevention program helps teach medical students and pediatric residents about childhood aggression. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2008 Nov;47(9):891-900. doi: 10.1177/0009922808319965. Epub 2008 Jul 14.
citation: Scholer SJ, Walkowski CA, Bickman L. Voluntary or required viewing of a violence prevention program in pediatric primary care. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2008 Jun;47(5):461-8. doi: 10.1177/0009922807311731. Epub 2008 Jan 23.
citation: Scholer SJ, Mukherjee AB, Gibbs KI, Memon S, Jongeward KL. Parents view a brief violence prevention program in clinic. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2007 Oct;46(8):724-34. doi: 10.1177/0009922807302508. Epub 2007 Jul 19.
citation: Scholer SJ, Cherry R, Garrard HG 4th, Gupta AO, Mace R, Greeley N. A multimedia program helps parents manage childhood aggression. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2006 Nov;45(9):835-40. doi: 10.1177/0009922806294217.
citation: Scholer SJ, Nix RL, Patterson B. Gaps in pediatricians' advice to parents regarding early childhood aggression. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2006 Jan-Feb;45(1):23-8. doi: 10.1177/000992280604500104.
citation: Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. A brief primary care intervention helps parents develop plans to discipline. Pediatrics. 2010 Feb;125(2):e242-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0874. Epub 2010 Jan 18.
citation: Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. The effect of physician--parent discussions and a brief intervention on caregivers' plan to discipline: is it time for a new approach? Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 Aug;50(8):712-9. doi: 10.1177/0009922811400730. Epub 2011 Mar 10.
citation: Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. Why parents value a brief required primary care intervention that teaches discipline strategies. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2012 Jun;51(6):538-45. doi: 10.1177/0009922812439241. Epub 2012 Apr 11.