Tx for Child Sexual Behavior Problems

Penn State Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Phase-based treatment of sexual behavior problems of children

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02625571

STUDY00002942

Details and patient eligibility

About

A significant minority of children (ages 5-12) display problematic sexual behavior and the persistence of this behavior is oftentimes as stable as other child behavior problems, such as aggression and defiance. Unfortunately, the only tested intervention protocols for these concerns utilize a group treatment modality that is not feasible in most community treatment settings. This project will define and pilot test an intervention for child sexual behavior problems that is applicable in most settings and can be easily disseminated as a first step toward validation in larger clinical trials.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A caregiver is willing to participate in treatment
• A clinically significant T-score on the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory
• Child is between the ages of 5 and 12, inclusive

Exclusion criteria

• Child and/or caregiver IQ below 70
• Active child and/or caregiver psychosis or suicidal/homicidal ideation
• Active substance use problems of the caregiver

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Phase-based treatment of sexual behavior problems of children