Clinical trial NCT05626244: Being a Parent: Evaluation of a Parenting Intervention for Childhood Behavioral Problems
Official title: Ser Pai & Ser Mãe: Avaliação de Uma intervenção Parental Para crianças Com Problemas
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Childhood Behavior Problems
Positive Parenting Skills
Parental Concerns
Parents' Sense of Competence
Keywords: Parenting Interventions
Childhood
Behavior Problems
Positve Parenting
Lead sponsor: ISPA - Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Psicologicas, Sociais e da Vida
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fundação Cecília Zino
name: King's College London
First posted: 2022-11-23
Enrollment: 53
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This randomized controlled trial will have two arms, namely the intervention group and the waitlist control group.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This randomized controlled trial aims to test the efficacy of an early parenting intervention for childhood behavior problems in the portuguese community. More specifically, this research intends to: 1) examine the effects of the parenting intervention in childhood behavior problems, positive parenting skills and parental concerns; 2) test participants' adherence, acceptability and dropout rates of the parenting intervention; and 3) qualitatively analyze the experience of parents' who received the intervention.

Researchers will compare an intervention group with a waitlist control group to see if there are any significant differences between these groups regarding childhood behavior problems and the aforementioned parenting dimensions.

Participants in both groups will be able to participate in the parenting intervention that has a duration of 9 weeks. Furthermore, they will be asked to fill in pre and post data.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Primary caregivers who identify difficulties managing the behavior of a child between the ages of 2 and 11 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Primary caregivers of children with serious neurodevelopmental or cognitive disorders diagnosed;
* Primary caregivers of children institucionalized;
* Primary caregivers who do not comprehend, read or write in portuguese;
* Primary caregivers inability to commit to weekly sessions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in the Child Behavior Checklist for Preschool and School Years (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001; Portuguese version: Achenbach et al., 2014)
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 11 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in the Parental Concerns Scale (Castro, 2012)
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 11 months
measure: Change in the Parental Sense of Competence (PSOC; Johnston & Mash, 1989; portuguese version: Nunes et al., 2014)
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 11 months
measure: Change in the Parental Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ; Robinson et al., 2001; portuguese version: Pedro et al., 2015)
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 11 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Research Qualitative Interview
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 11 months
Locations:
city: Lisboa
country: Portugal
facility: Ispa - Instituto Universitário
Study officials:
affiliation: Ispa - Instituto Universitário
name: Laura Maciel, Ph.D. student
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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