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CompletedNCT04160013

Mitigating ACEs in Pediatric Primary Care: Cohort #2 With 6-24 Month Old Children

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
533 (actual)
Sponsor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
6 Months – 2 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The aim is to determine if a brief intervention can affect parents' attitudes about physical punishment and other parenting behaviors.

Detailed description

A public health problem that needs to be solved is how to educate more parents about healthy discipline options. The investigators aim to mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) by integrating evidence-based parent training into pediatric primary care. Some of the most modifiable ACEs are associated with parenting behaviors that can lead to child abuse. The investigators define unhealthy parenting behaviors such as spanking, threatening, yelling, and humiliation. For adults in the original ACEs study, it was exposure to these behaviors that led to the categorization of child abuse/neglect and that were associated with heart disease, obesity, depression, smoking, drug use, violence, and many other problems. This study may help change policy and practice related to mitigating ACEs in primary care. To accomplish this goal, randomized controlled trials are needed to test brief screening tools and evidence-based resources. A population-based approach is needed to reach all parents (i.e. primary prevention). In the study, parents in the intervention group will receive 3 minutes of education about healthy discipline strategies.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALDiscipline educationDiscipline education using the Play Nicely program.
BEHAVIORALCavity PreventionCavity prevention using a 2 page handout.

Timeline

Start date
2017-10-16
Primary completion
2018-11-05
Completion
2019-01-19
First posted
2019-11-12
Last updated
2024-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04160013. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.