Clinical trial NCT05172297: Internet-based Universal Parent Training as a Booster to PATHS®: Parent Web
Official title: A Non-randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of an Internet-delivered Parent Training Intervention (Parent Web) at the Transition to Early Adolescence for Parents of Children That Have Participated in Preschool PATHS®
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Conflict
Family Relations
Family Dysfunction
Keywords: parent training
universal
youth externalizing problems
family conflict
warmth in families
Lead sponsor: Stockholm University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-12-29
Enrollment: 163
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This is a non-randomized controlled experiment (i.e., quasi-experiment) with a wait-list comparison group
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: To test an online parent training program. Relative to a matched comparison, those in the Parent Web (PW) will show benefits on well-being, parenting, stress, youth mental health. Parents of PATHS children are the immediate intervention group.

Detailed description: Parent-Web (PW) is internet delivered and rooted in social learning and coercion theory, PW supports parenting practices and parent-child interactions encouraging prosocial behavior and emotion regulation, reduce coercive parenting, improve communication, problem solving, and warmth. PW has a universal and selective edition. Universal PW has 5 basic modules (1 module per week, 6-8 weeks) and bonus modules. Basic modules contain information, exercises, and videos of actors showing parenting practices. A family guide supports PW participants through PW modules. No published outcome evaluations of universal PW currently exist. However, benefits were found for selective PW. This study will test the effects of universal PW as a booster to PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) a universal school-based intervention designed to enhance child social emotional competence. All PW trial participants are parents to at least one adolescent child (aged 11-13). Immediate PW participants are parents who have a child that participated in PATHS at age 4-5 years old.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Immediate intervention group are parents of children aged 11-13 who participated in PATHS at age 4-5 years old.

Parents in the wait list comparison group have children who are matched to the children of parents in the immediate intervention group.

Matching criteria are:

Wait-list group parents' child's present-day gender (matching criteria 1) is the same as the matched child who's parents are in the immediate intervention group, wait-list group parents' child's present-day age is similar to the matched child who's parents are in the immediate intervention group, namely child birthdays within 6 months of each other (matching criteria 2), and wait-list group parents' children live in the same postal code as the matched immediate intervention group child (matching criteria 3), and matched children have all lived in Sweden since 2014 (matching criteria 4). If these 4-matching criteria are too restrictive and do not provide enough matches to recruit from, then the matching criteria will be reduced to points 1, 2, and point 3. Children do not participate in the Parent Web intervention trial, but parents of children do participate.

Exclusion Criteria: See inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in parent rating of child's emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and prosocial behavior
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated view of their child's behavioral problems/defiant behavior
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated family warmth and conflict
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated encouragement of positive behaviors, setting limits, and proactive parenting behaviors
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated stress
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated health
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
measure: Change from baseline in parent rated parents validation of their child's emotions when expressed
timeFrame: Immediate PW group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test up to 10 months after pretest. Wait-list group pretest in Fall 2022. Post test 1 up to 10 months after pretest. Post test 2 for wait-list up to 10 months after post test 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Stockholm
country: Sweden
facility: Stockholm University
Study officials:
affiliation: Stockholm University
name: Laura Ferrer-Wreder, PhD.,
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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