Smart Parents--Safe and Healthy Kids (SPSHK)

The Pennsylvania State University (PENNSTATE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Sexual Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids; Behavioral: Parents as Teachers

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04366687

CMSN 8875

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the effectiveness of the addition of a single-session child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention module (Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids) on improving parents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding CSA prevention for parents already receiving parent-education services. The investigators hypothesize that parents who receive the parenting curriculum and the CSA prevention module will (a) demonstrate significant improvement in CSA-related awareness (i.e., knowledge, attitudes) and protective behaviors from pre-test to post-test, and (b) demonstrate higher scores on CSA-related awareness and protective behaviors as compared to parents who only receive the parenting curriculum.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Parent or caregiver > 18 years old
2. Parent or caregiver of at least one child under 13
3. Enrolled in PAT

Exclusion criteria

1. Parent/caregiver does not speak English
2. Parent is mandated (i.e., court-ordered) to attend parent-training program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

PAT-AU

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents randomized to this arm (i.e., group) receive Parents as Teachers (PAT) services as usual (AU).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parents as Teachers

PAT+CSA

Experimental group

Description:

Parents randomized to this arm (i.e., group) receive the added CSA-focused session (Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids) added to typical Parents as Teachers (PAT).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids