Primary Care-based Program to Enhance Positive Parenting Practices

University of Illinois

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parenting; Children; Development; Language

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

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02871973

UL1TR000050 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2014-0337_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this research is to conduct a small randomized pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of Sit Down and Play (SDP), a brief, low-cost program delivered in the primary care setting to enhance parent-child interactions and explore potential impacts on parenting behaviors.

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 school readiness 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 intervention 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: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent is 18 years or older
• Child is present for a 2, 4, or 6 month well-child visit
• 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: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

SDP

Experimental group

Description:

Families randomized to intervention group will receive Sit Down and Play while they wait in the waiting room to be seen by their primary care provider at current and subsequent well-child visit.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sit Down and Play

CDC Handout

Active Comparator group

Description:

Families in the control group will receive the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Handout at enrollment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Handout