NCT05172297

Internet-based Universal Parent Training as a Booster to PATHS®: Parent Web

A Non-randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of an Internet-delivered Parent Training Intervention (Parent Web) at the Transition to Early Adolescence for Parents of Children That Have Participated in Preschool PATHS®

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 163 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stockholm University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To test an online parent training program. Relative to a matched comparison, those in the Parent Web (PW) will show benefits on well-being, parenting, stress, youth mental health. Parents of PATHS children are the immediate intervention group.

Detailed description

Parent-Web (PW) is internet delivered and rooted in social learning and coercion theory, PW supports parenting practices and parent-child interactions encouraging prosocial behavior and emotion regulation, reduce coercive parenting, improve communication, problem solving, and warmth. PW has a universal and selective edition. Universal PW has 5 basic modules (1 module per week, 6-8 weeks) and bonus modules. Basic modules contain information, exercises, and videos of actors showing parenting practices. A family guide supports PW participants through PW modules. No published outcome evaluations of universal PW currently exist. However, benefits were found for selective PW. This study will test the effects of universal PW as a booster to PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) a universal school-based intervention designed to enhance child social emotional competence. All PW trial participants are parents to at least one adolescent child (aged 11-13). Immediate PW participants are parents who have a child that participated in PATHS at age 4-5 years old.

Conditions

• Family Conflict
• Family Relations
• Family Dysfunction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parent Web	Parent-Web (PW) is internet delivered and rooted in social learning and coercion theory, PW supports parenting practices and parent-child interactions encouraging prosocial behavior and emotion regulation, reduce coercive parenting, improve communication, problem solving, and warmth. PW has a universal and selective edition. Universal PW has 5 basic modules (1 module per week, 6-8 weeks) and bonus modules. Basic modules contain information, exercises, and videos of actors showing parenting practices. A family guide supports parents through modules.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-21
• Primary completion: 2024-08-31
• Completion: 2024-08-31
• First posted: 2021-12-29
• Last updated: 2024-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden