Evaluation of the Comprehensive Family Support Program (PAIF)

University of Seville

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Parenting

Treatments: Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06285552

4792/0842

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of positive parenting programs targeted to parents of toddlers, children and adolescents carried out in Cantabria (Spain).

We will collect information from the participants before the intervention, in the last session of the program and some months after, to verify if there have been some changes in the family dynamics of these parents, and if these changes continue after some time. Besides, we will compare these results with information from other families that are not taking part in the program. The main caregivers of the participating families and the practitioners in charge of the intervention will provide the information for the study.

We expect that families participating in the programs will improve their parenting competencies and their family dynamics, and that these change will stay after the program.

Full description

A quasi-experimental design will be followed, with three evaluation moments (pretest, posttest and follow-up) and with a non-randomized comparison group.

The positive parenting programs will be advertised by social media, schools and high schools. The participants will be parental figures interested in joining these programs.

The participants will answer a series of questionnaires by an app, where they will give information related to sociodemographic data and parenting competencies. The app will not allow the participants to leave any question with no answer or with an incorrect answer.

To analyze the data, we will use the softwares Mplus and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being caregiver of at least one child under 18 years of age
• The child to be in the developmental stage appropriate for the corresponding arm
• If participating in a targeted program, meet the requirements: (1) be a father; (2) presenting bad health habits in the family according the evaluation of the pediatrician
• Motivated to improve parenting competences

Exclusion criteria

• Not having sufficient command of the Spanish language to be able to communicate
• Experience family crisis that prevent for participating in a group intervention
• Experience mental health issue that prevent for participating in a group intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 8 patient groups

Parenting newborn

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at community families with children enrolled in Early Childhood Care Centers (from 0 to 2 years old).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Parenting Toddlers

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at community families with children from 2 to 5 years old.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Parenting Children

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at community families with children from 6 to 12 years old.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Parenting Adolescents

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at community families with children from 12 to 18 years old.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Active and Health Families

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at targeted families due identified needs for healthy lifestyle habits

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Functional diversity Parenting

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at targeted families whose children and/or adolescents exhibit functional diversity characteristics

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Families that are not participating in any program as they live in a comparable area where any of the intervention is offered

Parenting as as Father

Experimental group

Description:

Program aimed at fathers from the community population

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive parenting PAIF program