Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline

Vanderbilt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Discipline

Treatments: Behavioral: Play Nicely program; Behavioral: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00875303

PN Feb 2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

Play Nicely, is a 40 minute, interactive, media-rich, CD ROM that teaches parents, health care professionals, counselors, and child care workers/teachers the basics in aggression management for children ages 1-7. For more information about the program and to review results of previous studies, see www.playnicely.org. The objective of this study is to determine if using this brief intervention during the well child visit can affect parents' plans to discipline their children.

Enrollment: 258 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English or Spanish speaking parents of 1-5 year old children presenting to the Vanderbilt Primary Care Clinic for a well child visit.

Exclusion criteria

• Caregiver could not speak English or Spanish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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258 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Routine primary care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control

Multimedia intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Play Nicely program