Primary Care and Parenting

University of Illinois

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Development, Child; Parenting; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Sit Down and Play; Other: Handout

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03146572

2014-0337_2

SDBP (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study to evaluate potential impact of a brief, low-cost primary care-based intervention of parenting self-efficacy, knowledge, and behavior.

Full description

Enriching parenting behaviors in early childhood promotes child development and offers a promising strategy to reduce future educational disparities. However, current interventions are limited by cost and have not been widely disseminated. Recognized as a target for research to improve early childhood development and subsequent school readiness skills among at-risk families, the primary care setting offers an ideal opportunity to reach the millions of children living in poverty. However, what remains unknown is how to more efficiently leverage the primary care setting to deliver a sustainable and effective preventive program to promote positive parenting behaviors and encourage early childhood development in low-income families. Therefore, the investigators designed Sit Down and Play (SDP) a brief parent-directed program delivered in the primary care setting. Modeled after the widely disseminated literacy program Reach Out and Read and grounded in social cognitive theory, SDP is intended to take place during each pediatric well-child visit occurring in a child's first two years with the goal of promoting positive parenting behaviors.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parent is 18 years or older Child is present for a 6, 9, or 12 month well-child visit who attends University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for well-child care Adult present with child at appointment is parent/caregiver of child

Exclusion criteria

Parent is non-English speaking Child is acutely sick

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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61 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Parent of child to receive intervention, Sit Down and Play

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sit Down and Play

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parent will receive handout to promote positive behavior

Treatment:

Other: Handout