Digital Parent Training for Disruptive Behaviors in Children

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anger; Disruptive Behavior; Non-Compliance, Patient; Irritable Mood; Aggression Childhood

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent Management Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03697837

0102012121-E

18-004680 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an open pilot trial of web-based parent training for tantrums and disruptive behavior in children. Parents will be asked to complete a battery of tests to assess their children' behaviors before and after the intervention. Children will undergo a psychiatric evaluation as part of screening. The intervention will be delivered online via an app over a period of 6 weeks. It consists of 8 self-guided courses that take approximately 10 minutes to complete and include text and animated parent-child simulations. Parents will also complete 3 one-hour videoconferencing sessions with a study clinician. During the intervention, parents will be taught various strategies for managing situations that can be anger provoking for their child. This study is conducted to examine whether a digitally-delivered version of parent-management training can be used to reduce behavioral problems including anger outbursts, irritability, aggression and noncompliance.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 9 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents have access to a mobile device and/or computer device
• Parents speak English as native language
• Families agree not to initiate new mental health treatments for the duration of this study.
• Child meets diagnostic criteria for one of the Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Affective Reactivity Index parent-report score is above 3.6, which is the mean for children with severe irritability
• Lives within driving distance from New Haven, CT

Exclusion criteria

• Parents have previously received parent-training by a licensed provider.
• Untreated medical or psychiatric disorder that requires immediate intervention
• Child is non-verbal or minimally verbal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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16 participants in 1 patient group

Parent Management Training

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will receive a web-based parenting intervention for tantrums and disruptive behavior in young children

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Management Training