Clinical trial NCT06285552: Evaluation of the Comprehensive Family Support Program (PAIF)
Official title: Evaluation of the Comprehensive Family Support Program (PAIF)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting
Keywords: Positive parenting
Parenting competences
Program evaluation
Family functioning
Parenting practices
Effectiveness
Lead sponsor: University of Seville
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Gobierno de Cantabria
name: Loyola University
name: University of Jaen
First posted: 2024-02-29
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The participants will be assigned to the manualized program according to the inclusion criteria. The comparison group will be composed of families in areas where the intervention is not available but with similar sociodemographic characteristics.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of positive parenting programs targeted to parents of toddlers, children and adolescents carried out in Cantabria (Spain).

We will collect information from the participants before the intervention, in the last session of the program and some months after, to verify if there have been some changes in the family dynamics of these parents, and if these changes continue after some time. Besides, we will compare these results with information from other families that are not taking part in the program. The main caregivers of the participating families and the practitioners in charge of the intervention will provide the information for the study.

We expect that families participating in the programs will improve their parenting competencies and their family dynamics, and that these change will stay after the program.

Detailed description: A quasi-experimental design will be followed, with three evaluation moments (pretest, posttest and follow-up) and with a non-randomized comparison group.

The positive parenting programs will be advertised by social media, schools and high schools. The participants will be parental figures interested in joining these programs.

The participants will answer a series of questionnaires by an app, where they will give information related to sociodemographic data and parenting competencies. The app will not allow the participants to leave any question with no answer or with an incorrect answer.

To analyze the data, we will use the softwares Mplus and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being caregiver of at least one child under 18 years of age
* The child to be in the developmental stage appropriate for the corresponding arm
* If participating in a targeted program, meet the requirements: (1) be a father; (2) presenting bad health habits in the family according the evaluation of the pediatrician
* Motivated to improve parenting competences

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not having sufficient command of the Spanish language to be able to communicate
* Experience family crisis that prevent for participating in a group intervention
* Experience mental health issue that prevent for participating in a group intervention

Primary outcomes:
measure: Perception of the parental role
timeFrame: Pretest, immediately posttest and 6 month follow-up
measure: Parenting practices (Authoritative parenting style: Warmth and Support, Reasoning/Induction, Democratic Participation)
timeFrame: Pretest, immediately posttest and 6 month follow-up
measure: Parenting practices (Overreactivity and Laxness)
timeFrame: Pretest, immediately posttest and 6 month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Satisfaction with the intervention
timeFrame: Immediately Posttest
measure: Children adjustment
timeFrame: Pretest, immediately posttest and 6 month follow-up
measure: Social support
timeFrame: Pretest, immediately posttest and 6 month follow-up
measure: Satisfaction with Family Life
timeFrame: Pretest, posttest and follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Santander
country: Spain
facility: Consejería de Inclusión Social, Juventud, Familias E Igualdad
state: Cantabria
Study officials:
References:
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