Assesment of the Efficacy of Personalized Parent-child Psychotherapy in Children Under 3 Years Old (ECRIN)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Parent-Child Relations; Child Behavior Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized psychotherapy; Behavioral: Standard of care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05206708

2020/484

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to assess the efficacy at 4 months of a personalized strategy comparatively to a standard Psychodynamic Integrative Therapy, on childrens' symptom improvment

Full description

3 evaluations are performed: before treatment, at the end of the treatment and one year after the treatment.

evaluations include assessment of: children's symptom parent-infant interaction quality parental competencies parental perception of the child by his/her parent parent-therapist alliance hair cortisol concentration

Enrollment: 234 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 3 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Families who are requesting a consultation for functional or behavioural problems of their child
• Children under the age of 3

Exclusion criteria

• Parents suffering from a severe untreated psychiatric disorder
• Difficulties in speaking French
• Children with Autistic spectrum disorder
• Families already in care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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234 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard care group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard psychodynamic therapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard of care

Personalized care

Experimental group

Description:

Psychodynamic therapy or interactive guidance therapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized psychotherapy