Engaging Low-Income Families in Prevention Programs

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Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Parenting

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent Training and childcare discount; Other: Parent Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01405404

L05031502

R01NR004085 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this study are to (1) study the cost-effectiveness of childcare discounts on increasing parent participation rates in a preventive parent training program called the Chicago Parent Program and (2) evaluate the efficacy of the Spanish-translated version of the Chicago Parent Program in childcare centers serving low-income families with young children.

Enrollment: 323 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parent of 2-4 year old child enrolled in participating day care center

Exclusion criteria

• parent previously participated in parent training program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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323 participants in 3 patient groups

No intervention control

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents complete surveys only

parent training but no discount

Experimental group

Description:

parent enrolled in the parent training intervention but do not receive childcare discounts for attending

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Training and childcare discount

Parent training with discount

Experimental group

Description:

parents receive parent training and a childcare discount for attending

Treatment:

Other: Parent Training