NCT03146572

Primary Care and Parenting

Utilizing the Primary Care Setting to Deliver a Brief Program to Enhance Parenting Behaviors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 12 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study to evaluate potential impact of a brief, low-cost primary care-based intervention of parenting self-efficacy, knowledge, and behavior.

Detailed description

Enriching parenting behaviors in early childhood promotes child development and offers a promising strategy to reduce future educational disparities. However, current interventions are limited by cost and have not been widely disseminated. Recognized as a target for research to improve early childhood development and subsequent school readiness skills among at-risk families, the primary care setting offers an ideal opportunity to reach the millions of children living in poverty. However, what remains unknown is how to more efficiently leverage the primary care setting to deliver a sustainable and effective preventive program to promote positive parenting behaviors and encourage early childhood development in low-income families. Therefore, the investigators designed Sit Down and Play (SDP) a brief parent-directed program delivered in the primary care setting. Modeled after the widely disseminated literacy program Reach Out and Read and grounded in social cognitive theory, SDP is intended to take place during each pediatric well-child visit occurring in a child's first two years with the goal of promoting positive parenting behaviors.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Development, Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sit Down and Play	Sit Down and Play (SDP) is designed to be a brief, low-cost intervention that incorporates key theoretical constructs to elicit positive parenting behaviors. It is intended to be delivered by existing clinical staff, nonprofessionals, or volunteers during each of the eight well-child visits between 2-24 months of age while a family waits to be seen by their pediatrician in the examination room
OTHER	Handout	Handout providing written descriptions of strategies to encourage positive parenting behaviors

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-03
• Primary completion: 2018-02-11
• Completion: 2018-04-06
• First posted: 2017-05-10
• Last updated: 2020-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States