Programa PUEDES Infancia

University of Navarra

Status

Completed

Conditions

Self Efficacy

Parenting

Life Style

Treatments

Behavioral: Intervention Group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03698110

2017.025

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether an intervention directed at promoting parental self-efficacy and skills, based on a positive parenting framework, improves parental competences and healthy practices in families with children aged 2 to 5 years old.

Full description

This study has designed implemented and evaluated an intervention to promote parental competence and healthy practices in families with children aged 2 to 5 years old, addressing parental self-efficacy an skills. This research followed the first three stages of the Medical Research Council framework for complex interventions: the theoretical, modeling and exploratory trial phases. A randomized control trial with parents of children better 2 to 5 years old was conducted. The program consisted of two hour long four sessions. Parents were grouped in small groups (7-8 participants) and guided by a facilitator whose role was to provide a participative and trusting atmosphere to share opinions and experience in healthy lifestyles and parenting. Data collection was performed at three time points (pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up) to asses the preliminary efficacy, acceptability and feasibility of the program.

Enrollment

23 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Be father or mother of at list one child between 2 to 5 years old
Be over 18 years old
Sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Fathers or mothers that could have special necessities that could prevent the course of the sessions
Participants the could understand or speak spanish