Parents' Differential Susceptibility to Microtrial

Tilburg University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Behavior; Parenting; Parent-Child Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: Immediate positive parenting feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05539170

TSB_RP604

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled microtrial, not just focus on parental (and child) responsiveness but also on an underlying physiological mechanism hypothesized to contribute to heightened susceptibility to parenting interventions.

Full description

After being informed about the study, all participants giving written informed consent will be randomly assigned to the "micro" intervention condition (i.e., immediate positive parenting feedback) or care-as-usual control condition in a singe-blind manner in a 1:1 ratio.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents with children aged 4-6 years.

Exclusion criteria

• psychiatric/neurological disorder (as reported by the parent)
• mental retardation (IQ < 70)
• not mastering the Dutch language, and
• that their child is not living in another household during the weekdays

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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101 participants in 2 patient groups

"micro" parenting intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will be instructed to bring the completed questionnaires with them to the university lab. Then, in the lab, parents will be observed interacting with their child. Following these baseline conditions, half of the parents will receive the "micro" parenting intervention-in the form of individual positive feedback concerning their parenting and their child's behavior.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Immediate positive parenting feedback

care-as-usual condition

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the care-as-usual control condition receive no immediate positive parenting feedback but will also be taken aside without their child, receiving only the instructions of the experiment.