NCT02704221

Enhancing the Outcomes of a Behavioral Parent Training Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Christina Studts · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a feasibility trial, testing the hypothesis that among sedentary mothers of behaviorally at-risk preschool-aged children, those who receive behavioral parent training (BPT) programs and concurrently increase their physical activity levels will demonstrate improved parenting and child behavior outcomes compared to those who receive BPT but remain sedentary.

Detailed description

The investigators will randomly assign 20 participants to two groups: behavioral parent training plus contingency management to increase steps (BPT+CM) or behavioral parent training alone (BPT). Contingency management procedures will involve monetary rewards for meeting weekly step-count goals. The specific aims of the proposed project are to: 1) assess the feasibility of the study design and procedures, 2) assess the acceptability of the BPT+CM condition to participants, and 3) determine whether a signal of an effect of increased physical activity exists (via preliminary comparisons of measures of fatigue, perceived energy, parenting behaviors, parenting sense of competence, parenting stress, and child behavior ratings between participants in the two conditions). This innovative pilot study will prepare us for a fully powered trial to test the efficacy of this approach.

Conditions

• Disruptive Behavior Disorder
• Parenting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Fitbit activity tracker	Wear a Fitbit daily for 12 weeks and meet with a research assistant once per week to download data
BEHAVIORAL	Monetary rewards	Set weekly step-count goals based on the previous week's performance and receive monetary rewards for meeting the goals. The schedule of rewards increases as step-count goals increase.
BEHAVIORAL	BPT training sessions	Complete 12 BPT training sessions delivered by supervised clinical child psychology doctoral students, with each session lasting approximately 60 minutes. The BPT is based upon the existing, evidence-based Everyday Parenting intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2018-09-13
• First posted: 2016-03-09
• Last updated: 2018-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States