Clinical trial NCT02191956: Technology to Enhance Treatment for Early Conduct Problems in Low Income Families
Official title: Technology to Enhance Treatment for Early Conduct Problems in Low Income Families
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Keywords: Disruptive behavior disorders
Early Onset
Young Children
Parenting
Behavioral Parent Training
Lead sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2014-07-16
Enrollment: 101
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 3
Maximum age (years): 7
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study aims to the test the efficacy and cost effectiveness of new service delivery methods to enhance the reach and impact of the standard of care treatment, Behavioral Parent Training (BPT), for early onset disruptive behavior disorders.

Detailed description: Families will be randomized to one of two active treatment conditions, the standard BPT program or the standard BPT program plus some new service delivery methods.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child aged 3 to 7 years
* has clinically significant disruptive behaviors
* low-income family

Exclusion Criteria:

* Caregiver has current mood, substance use, and/or psychotic disorder
* Child has current pervasive developmental and/or psychotic disorder
* Family has current allegation and/or past substantiation with child protective services

Primary outcomes:
measure: Engagement
timeFrame: Participants will be followed for the duration of treatment, an expected average of 10 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Disruptive Behavior from the start of treatment through 6 months after treatment ends
timeFrame: Participants will be followed through the duration of treatment and 6 additional months after treatment ends, an expected average of 9 months
measure: Treatment Cost
timeFrame: Treatment costs will be tracked through the duration of treatment, an expected average of 10 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chapel Hill
country: United States
facility: UNC Department of Psychology
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: UNC Chapel Hill
name: Deborah J Jones, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Parent J, Anton MT, Loiselle R, Highlander A, Breslend N, Forehand R, Hare M, Youngstrom JK, Jones DJ. A randomized controlled trial of technology-enhanced behavioral parent training: sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow-up. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2022 Sep;63(9):992-1001. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13554. Epub 2021 Dec 9.
citation: Faro AL, McKee LG, Garcia RL, Jones DJ. The relationships between religiosity and youth internalizing symptoms in African American parent-adolescent dyads. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2018 Jan;24(1):139-149. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000158. Epub 2017 Jun 5.
citation: Anton MT, Jones DJ, Youngstrom EA. Socioeconomic status, parenting, and externalizing problems in African American single-mother homes: A person-oriented approach. J Fam Psychol. 2015 Jun;29(3):405-415. doi: 10.1037/fam0000086.