Being a Parent: Evaluation of a Parenting Intervention for Childhood Behavioral Problems

ISPA - Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Psicologicas, Sociais e da Vida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Positive Parenting Skills; Parental Concerns; Childhood Behavior Problems; Parents' Sense of Competence

Treatments: Behavioral: Being a Parent

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05626244

EPEC_PT_2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled trial aims to test the efficacy of an early parenting intervention for childhood behavior problems in the portuguese community. More specifically, this research intends to: 1) examine the effects of the parenting intervention in childhood behavior problems, positive parenting skills and parental concerns; 2) test participants' adherence, acceptability and dropout rates of the parenting intervention; and 3) qualitatively analyze the experience of parents' who received the intervention.

Researchers will compare an intervention group with a waitlist control group to see if there are any significant differences between these groups regarding childhood behavior problems and the aforementioned parenting dimensions.

Participants in both groups will be able to participate in the parenting intervention that has a duration of 9 weeks. Furthermore, they will be asked to fill in pre and post data.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary caregivers who identify difficulties managing the behavior of a child between the ages of 2 and 11 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• Primary caregivers of children with serious neurodevelopmental or cognitive disorders diagnosed;
• Primary caregivers of children institucionalized;
• Primary caregivers who do not comprehend, read or write in portuguese;
• Primary caregivers inability to commit to weekly sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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53 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will be receiving the parenting intervention (name of the intervention: Being a Parent).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Being a Parent

Waitlist Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will be in a waitilist condition, in which they will not receive any intervention during the trial, but posteriorly will have the opportunity to receive the parenting intervention.