NCT05375019

Positive Discipline in Parent Training

The Effectiveness of a Positive Discipline Program Applied To The Parents of Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ege University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a Positive Discipline Program applied to the parents of preschool children. Accordingly, the tertiary aims of this study included determining the effects of a positive discipline program on the child upbringing attitudes of parents with preschool children, their perceptions regarding each other's child upbringing attitudes, and the communication between preschool children and their parents.

Detailed description

This randomized controlled experimental study included pretest, posttest, and monitoring test applications with an intervention group, an active control group, and a no-contact control group. The study was conducted between May 2020 and June 2022. The universe of the study consisted of 653 parents with preschool (ages 3-6) children registered to the Izmir Bornova Şükrü Ergil Family Health Center No:9. Sample size was calculated using power analysis and assigned randomly to the intervention, active control, and no-contact control groups in groups of 24 (n=72). The intervention group was provided with 8 weekly sessions of a 90 minutes positive discipline program while the active control group was provided with 8 weekly 90 minute sessions of free interaction. No intervention was performed with the no-contact control group. Data collection was performed using a Personal Information Form, Parental Attitude Scale (PAS), Assessment of Parenting Attitudes of Couples Scale (APACS) and the Parent Child Communication Scale (PCCS).

Conditions

• Parenting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Positive discipline program	The intervention group was provided with 8 weekly sessions of a 90 minutes positive discipline program
BEHAVIORAL	active control group	free interaction group consisting of topics determined by the families.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-01
• Completion: 2022-09-15
• First posted: 2022-05-16
• Last updated: 2024-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)