NCT04366687

Smart Parents--Safe and Healthy Kids

Smart Parents--Safe and Healthy Kids: Small RCT

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the effectiveness of the addition of a single-session child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention module (Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids) on improving parents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding CSA prevention for parents already receiving parent-education services. The investigators hypothesize that parents who receive the parenting curriculum and the CSA prevention module will (a) demonstrate significant improvement in CSA-related awareness (i.e., knowledge, attitudes) and protective behaviors from pre-test to post-test, and (b) demonstrate higher scores on CSA-related awareness and protective behaviors as compared to parents who only receive the parenting curriculum.

Conditions

• Child Sexual Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids	Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids (SPHSK) is a module designed to be added to existing evidence-based parent education programs. Because the module builds off of the core parenting skills developed in existing parent education programs, the module can be delivered in one session. SPSHK is comprised of three key CSA-prevention components: healthy child sexual development, parent-child communication about sex and sexual behaviors, and CSA-specific safety strategies such as vetting a babysitter and monitoring one-on-one time with adults. Behaviorally based, the module presents developmentally comprehensive information to parents of children 0-13 and utilizes role-playing scenarios and activities to maximize parents' use of learned skills.
BEHAVIORAL	Parents as Teachers	Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a parent-support program delivered to parents of children under five and focuses on improving parenting skills through parent-child interactions, development centered parenting, and general well-being. PAT has demonstrated positive effects on child and parent outcomes related to school readiness.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-02
• Primary completion: 2019-11-08
• Completion: 2019-11-08
• First posted: 2020-04-29
• Last updated: 2020-04-29

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: United States