Clinical trial NCT05139251: Positive Parenting: Empowering Young Mothers Experiencing Homelessness With a History of Inter-personal Violence to Improve Parenting Strategies
Official title: Positive Parenting: Empowering Young Mothers Experiencing Homelessness With a History of Inter-personal Violence to Improve Parenting Strategies
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Positive Parenting
Keywords: Positive parenting
Women experiencing homelessness
Inter-personal violence
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-12-01
Enrollment: 13
Sex: FEMALE
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to strengthen the skills and self-efficacy of women by addressing the social and emotional trauma that they have experienced from inter-personal violence (IPRV) and homelessness and to promote positive parenting strategies through Play and Learning Strategies (ePALS), an evidence based intervention.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* women's report of physical, sexual or psychological abuse from a partner/ family member/ acquaintance/ stranger within the last 24 months
* have at least one child under the age of 5 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* non-English speaking
* physical presence of a male partner at the time of enrollment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Women's parenting stress as assessed by the Parental Stress scale (PSS)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in social support as assessed by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Item Bank v 2.0 Emotional Support
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in social support as assessed by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Item Bank v 2.0 Informational Support
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in women's empowerment as assessed by the Personal Progress Scale-Revised (PPS-R)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in self efficacy as assessed by the General Self- Efficacy Scale (GSE)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in parent satisfaction as assessed by the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Infant
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Toddler
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Preschoolers
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
measure: Change in perceived parent child connectedness as assessed by the Mothers Object Relational Scale- Short Form (MORS- SF) and MORS- Child scale.
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month post intervention, 3 months post intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
name: Doncy Eapen, PhD, RN, FNP-BC
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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