Clinical trial NCT00538252: Parental Involvement and Children's Extra-Familial Contexts
Official title: Parental Involvement, Extra-Familial Contexts and Prevention of Drug Use Risk
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Prevention of Drug Abuse Risk
Keywords: drug use, antisocial behavior, early intervention, prevention
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2007-10-02
Enrollment: 731
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 2
Maximum age (years): 3
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: FAMILY_BASED
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 731 toddlers and their families followed from age 2 to 9 recruited on the basis of low socioeconomic status, and the presence of family (e.g., parental depression, drug use) and child (disruptive behavior) risk.

Brief summary: Parental involvement has been shown to be a robust predictor of child conduct problems (CP) and drug use risk in childhood and adolescence, but relatively little attention has been paid to the role of parental involvement in relation to child problem behavior during the transition to school-age, when children are spending more time in school, after-care settings, and in the neighborhood. Concomitantly, as children transition from preschool to school-age, there is evidence to suggest that the quality and organization of schools, after-school care, and neighborhoods play an increasingly important role in the emergence of children's CP and drug use risk. Specifically, we will address: 1) the extent to which the quality of school environments, after-school care, and neighborhoods are associated with the emergence of CP during the early school-age period; 2) how parental involvement in the toddler and preschool period may be associated with parental involvement and monitoring in extra-familial contexts in the early school-age years; 3) how parental involvement in schools, after-care, and the neighborhood, may moderate relationships between extra-familial factors and children's CP; and 4) whether a parenting intervention can increase parental involvement in school, after-care, and neighborhood contexts and decrease risk of children's subsequent CP. These issues will be tested with an existing sample of 731 ethnically-diverse children from urban, suburban, and rural sites. As all families in the study were recruited based on the presence of sociodemographic, family, and child risk factors, the cohort of children are at high risk for displaying a persistent trajectory of clinically-meaningful CP and drug use risk. Thus, the study has the potential to fill a much-needed void on associations between extra-familial contexts and risk for early-starting CP and later problem behavior during the early school-age years. Equally critical, the study can provide data on the potential moderating influence of involved parenting, its malleability for families facing multiple adversities, and whether family-based interventions can make a difference for children facing multiple adversities.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Previously enrolled sample of 731 children recruited on the basis of prior screening for socioeconomic, family, and child risk factors at age 2

Exclusion Criteria:

* All children and families needed to have a child 2-3 years of age with multiple socioeconomic, family, and child risk factors.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Achenbach Teacher Report Form
timeFrame: collected annually when children are ages 7 to 9 years old
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parental Monitoring Inventory
timeFrame: Collected annually when children are ages 7 to 9
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
name: Daniel S. Shaw, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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