Clinical trial NCT01670227: ParentCorps: Promoting Healthy Development in Children From Low Income Communities
Official title: Preventing Conduct Problems in Poor Urban Preschoolers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Behavior Problems of Childhood and Adolescence
Keywords: EARLY CHILDHOOD
UNIVERSAL PREVENTION
Lead sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
name: U.S. Department of Education
First posted: 2012-08-22
Enrollment: 1050
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 4
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study was to determine whether ParentCorps promotes academic achievement and prevents mental health problems in children living in disadvantaged urban communities


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrollment in Pre-K
* At least one English-Speaking caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in Academic achievement through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 4
measure: Change from baseline in Child behavior at school through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 6
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline Academic performance through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 6
measure: Change from baseline Behavior through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 6
measure: Change from baseline Parent engagement in school through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 6
measure: Change from baseline Positive behavior support through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2
measure: Change from baseline Classroom climate and positive behavior support through Year 4
timeFrame: Assessed twice per year in Years 1 and 2, and then annually through Year 4
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: New York University School of Medicine, The Child Study Center
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: NYU Langone Health
name: Laurie Brotman, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Brotman LM, Calzada E, Huang KY, Kingston S, Dawson-McClure S, Kamboukos D, Rosenfelt A, Schwab A, Petkova E. Promoting effective parenting practices and preventing child behavior problems in school among ethnically diverse families from underserved, urban communities. Child Dev. 2011 Jan-Feb;82(1):258-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01554.x.
citation: Brotman LM, Dawson-McClure S, Huang KY, Theise R, Kamboukos D, Wang J, Petkova E, Ogedegbe G. Early childhood family intervention and long-term obesity prevention among high-risk minority youth. Pediatrics. 2012 Mar;129(3):e621-8. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-1568. Epub 2012 Feb 6.
citation: Brotman LM, Dawson-McClure S, Kamboukos D, Huang KY, Calzada EJ, Goldfeld K, Petkova E. Effects of ParentCorps in Prekindergarten on Child Mental Health and Academic Performance: Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial Through 8 Years of Age. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Dec 1;170(12):1149-1155. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.1891.
citation: Brotman LM, Dawson-McClure S, Calzada EJ, Huang KY, Kamboukos D, Palamar JJ, Petkova E. Cluster (school) RCT of ParentCorps: impact on kindergarten academic achievement. Pediatrics. 2013 May;131(5):e1521-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-2632. Epub 2013 Apr 15.