Clinical trial NCT03147716: Parent Engagement Package: Comparing Strategies for Engaging Parents Into Parenting Programs
Official title: Effectiveness Trial of Methods for Engaging Parents Into Parenting Interventions
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Patient Compliance
Lead sponsor: Arizona State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
name: Mesa Public Schools
First posted: 2017-05-10
Enrollment: 854
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants are randomly assigned to one of five conditions: 1) enrollment flyer only; 2) enrollment flyer + testimonial booklet; 3) enrollment flyer + teacher endorsement; 4) enrollment flyer + provider engagement call; or 5) all four engagement strategies.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study tests the effectiveness of different strategies for engaging parents into an evidence-based parenting skills intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, offered universally to parents of children attending one of six public elementary schools.

Detailed description: Parenting skills programs have been shown to help prevent youth substance use and mental health disorders. Unfortunately, few parents participate in parenting programs when given the opportunity. Thus, developing effective strategies to increase engagement in effective preventive parenting interventions is essential for these programs to have a significant public health impact. The purpose of this study is to identify parent engagement strategies that increase participation in effective parenting programs and consequently improve parenting practices and children's well-being.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Is a caregiver of a child in kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade at a participating school (i.e.,"target child");
* The target child lives with the caregiver at least half of the time;
* The caregiver speaks English or Spanish;
* The caregiver is listed as one of the target child's parents/guardians in the school's records.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The target child is in a self-contained classroom due to cognitive or emotional disabilities;
* The caregiver is a kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade teacher at a participating school;
* The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study;
* The caregiver is participating in a competing parenting program at the school, the "Intensive Family Literacy program".

Primary outcomes:
measure: Parenting Intervention Attendance
timeFrame: Attendance at the Triple P Positive Parenting Program was collected once per week for 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parenting Intervention Enrollment
timeFrame: from the date engagement strategies commenced until the date the Triple P Positive Parenting Program began, up to 7 weeks
measure: Parenting Intervention Homework Completion
timeFrame: collected once per week for 7 weeks, at the beginning of each Triple P Positive Parenting Program sessions 2 through 8
measure: Parenting Intervention Session Involvement
timeFrame: collected once per week for 8 weeks, after each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session
measure: Child Behavior Problems
timeFrame: collected at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline
measure: Parenting Skills
timeFrame: collected at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tempe
country: United States
facility: Arizona State University
state: Arizona
Study officials:
affiliation: Arizona State University
name: Emily B Winslow, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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