Clinical trial NCT05375019: Positive Discipline in Parent Training
Official title: The Effectiveness of a Positive Discipline Program Applied To The Parents of Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting
Keywords: Positive discipline
preschool period
parent training
parenting attitudes
Lead sponsor: Ege University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-05-16
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a Positive Discipline Program applied to the parents of preschool children. Accordingly, the tertiary aims of this study included determining the effects of a positive discipline program on the child upbringing attitudes of parents with preschool children, their perceptions regarding each other's child upbringing attitudes, and the communication between preschool children and their parents.

Detailed description: This randomized controlled experimental study included pretest, posttest, and monitoring test applications with an intervention group, an active control group, and a no-contact control group. The study was conducted between May 2020 and June 2022. The universe of the study consisted of 653 parents with preschool (ages 3-6) children registered to the Izmir Bornova Şükrü Ergil Family Health Center No:9. Sample size was calculated using power analysis and assigned randomly to the intervention, active control, and no-contact control groups in groups of 24 (n=72). The intervention group was provided with 8 weekly sessions of a 90 minutes positive discipline program while the active control group was provided with 8 weekly 90 minute sessions of free interaction. No intervention was performed with the no-contact control group. Data collection was performed using a Personal Information Form, Parental Attitude Scale (PAS), Assessment of Parenting Attitudes of Couples Scale (APACS) and the Parent Child Communication Scale (PCCS).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Registered at Şükrü Ergil Family Health Center No. 9 in Bornova,
* Agreeing to participate in the research,
* Having children between the ages of 3-6,
* Parents have not participated in any parent education program before,
* Having the cognitive ability to receive education,
* Able to read and write,
* Having no problems in hearing, seeing and understanding,
* Will be able to participate in at least 7 sessions of the positive discipline program and active control group,
* Capable of using an online program (because it is made online).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Failure to attend at most one of the positive training program and active control group sessions,
* Parent's request to withdraw at any stage of the trial.

Primary outcomes:
measure: improvement in parenting attitudes
timeFrame: 8 weeks later
measure: improvement in Parenting Attitudes of Couples
timeFrame: 8 weeks later
measure: improvement a parent's relationship with their child
timeFrame: 3 months later
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İzmir
country: Turkey
facility: Ege University, TAEK
Study officials:
affiliation: TAEK
name: Aysun Eksioglu, PhD. Dr.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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