Positive Discipline in Parent Training

Ege University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parenting

Treatments: Behavioral: Positive discipline program; Behavioral: active control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05375019

Ege HDCandan

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a Positive Discipline Program applied to the parents of preschool children. Accordingly, the tertiary aims of this study included determining the effects of a positive discipline program on the child upbringing attitudes of parents with preschool children, their perceptions regarding each other's child upbringing attitudes, and the communication between preschool children and their parents.

Full description

This randomized controlled experimental study included pretest, posttest, and monitoring test applications with an intervention group, an active control group, and a no-contact control group. The study was conducted between May 2020 and June 2022. The universe of the study consisted of 653 parents with preschool (ages 3-6) children registered to the Izmir Bornova Şükrü Ergil Family Health Center No:9. Sample size was calculated using power analysis and assigned randomly to the intervention, active control, and no-contact control groups in groups of 24 (n=72). The intervention group was provided with 8 weekly sessions of a 90 minutes positive discipline program while the active control group was provided with 8 weekly 90 minute sessions of free interaction. No intervention was performed with the no-contact control group. Data collection was performed using a Personal Information Form, Parental Attitude Scale (PAS), Assessment of Parenting Attitudes of Couples Scale (APACS) and the Parent Child Communication Scale (PCCS).

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Registered at Şükrü Ergil Family Health Center No. 9 in Bornova,
• Agreeing to participate in the research,
• Having children between the ages of 3-6,
• Parents have not participated in any parent education program before,
• Having the cognitive ability to receive education,
• Able to read and write,
• Having no problems in hearing, seeing and understanding,
• Will be able to participate in at least 7 sessions of the positive discipline program and active control group,
• Capable of using an online program (because it is made online).

Exclusion criteria

• Failure to attend at most one of the positive training program and active control group sessions,
• Parent's request to withdraw at any stage of the trial.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention group (positive discipline program)

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group was provided with 8 weekly sessions of a 90 minutes positive discipline program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive discipline program

Active control group (free interaction)

Active Comparator group

Description:

while the active control group was provided with 8 weekly 90 minute sessions of free interaction.

Treatment:

Behavioral: active control group

No-contact group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was performed with the no-contact control group.