NCT02049749

Parent Program to Improve Child Behavior Problems

Improving Child Behavior Problems in the Primary Care Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to learn whether or not a brief parenting program called Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) offered at a primary care office can help improve behavior problems in children who are 2-6 years old.

Detailed description

The study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the CARE intervention. The study will include 2-6 year old children who receive their primary care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, South Philadelphia Primary Care clinic and whose caregiver and/or doctor has concern about a behavior problem in the child. The caregivers will also be subjects in the study. Child-caregiver pairs who agree to be in the study will be randomly assigned to receive the CARE training immediately or in 3-4 months. The CARE intervention will last 6 weeks and child behavior and parenting will be measured at baseline, 6-8 weeks, and 14-18 weeks. Investigators will also measure parent satisfaction with the CARE intervention. * Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) is a group parent training program. * The goals of the program are to teach parents skills that help their children successfully reach developmental milestones while increasing positive behaviors. * The program also was designed to help parents manage and decrease negative child behaviors. * Each training will be led by 2 therapists and 4-10 parents will attend the CARE program together. * Children do not attend the training but parents are encouraged to practice the skills learned at CARE between the sessions.

Conditions

• Child Behavior Problems

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Immediate CARE	CARE is a group parent training informed by the principles of Parent Child Interaction Therapy and was developed by Trauma Treatment Training Center and CHOP Policy Lab. CARE has been used in many populations including residential treatment center/domestic violence shelter staff, daycare providers, graduate students, biological parents, and foster parents/caseworkers. Goals are to decrease stress for caregivers, improve child behavior, and enhance the caregiver-child relationship, family stability, and wellness. The training teaches parents to follow a child's lead thus building a connection and promoting positive behaviors. The focus is on giving attention to child's pro-social behavior and ignoring minor misbehavior. The second phase teaches techniques for giving effective commands.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-30
• Last updated: 2019-04-12
• Results posted: 2019-04-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States