Putting Children First - Parent Training for Parents in High Conflict
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorIRIS Media Inc
About this trial
Intervention efficacy will be evaluated via a randomized controlled trial in Indiana over 17 weeks with 250 dyads (i.e., divorcing/divorced/separated parents). Dyads will be randomized to business as usual (BAU) or BAU+PCF.
Compared to BAU, BAU+PCF will (a) increase parental self-efficacy, (b) decrease parental stress, (c) increase parental knowledge, (d) increase parental motivation to engage with the intervention, (f) increase the quality of parent-child relationships, and (g) improve parent-reported child stress and prosocial behaviors.
Parents with higher levels of conflict will be more responsive to parallel parenting, and increased parallel parenting among HIC dyads will lead to reductions in child adjustment problems.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
parents who have recently experienced (within the past 2 years) divorce or separation, or are currently divorcing or separating.
have children aged 4-12.
Dyadic recruitment (both parents).
identified by the court system as experiencing HIC.
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Putting Children First
BehavioralAn online parenting intervention for families experiencing high inter-parental conflict during divorce or separation. Children in these families are at greater risk of adverse health outcomes such as mental illness, substance use, and social adjustment problems. Putting Children First will include evidence-based parent training and employ motivational interviewing to increase engagement, will promote parallel parenting to help parents minimize conflict, thereby mitigating negative health outcomes in their children.
Treatment groups
500 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Putting Children FirstExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control - Business as UsualNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Parenting Practices
Parenting practices will be assessed using the Parenting Practices Inventory, a 72-item survey using a 4-point Likert-type scale with rating from 1 to 4 and higher scores indicating more use of the practice, thus higher scores are better outcomes. The subscales have demonstrated adequate internal reliability (alphas = .54 to .80) and have been used in multiple studies to evaluate parenting interventions
Time frame
Baseline and 15 weeks2
Parenting efficacy
Parenting efficacy will be assessed using four, 6-item subscales from the Tool for Measuring Parent Self-Efficacy, measuring domains of play and enjoyment, discipline practices, perceived control in parenting, and acceptance of parenting role (internal consistency alphas = .80 to .89). Scores range from 1 "agree a lot" to 3 "don't know", with scores on the subscales ranging from 6 to 18 and higher scores indicating less self-efficacy, a worse outcome.
Time frame
Baseline and 15 weeks3
Parenting stress
Parenting stress will be assessed using the Parenting Stress Scale, which is a brief 18-item Likert-type scale that includes four domains: parental rewards, parental stressors, lack of control, and parental satisfaction. Each item is on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 "Strongly Disagree" to 5 "Strongly Agree". The total scale (after reverse coding half the items) results in possible scores ranging from 18 to 90 with higher scores indicating more parenting stress. The scale has demonstrated good internal reliability (alphas = .86 to .88). This instrument is commonly used for both clinical and non-clinical samples.
Time frame
Baseline and 15 weeks4
Interparental conflict
The Divorce Conflict Scale is a 6-item screener specifically addressing conflict and cooperation post-relationship/marital dissolution with good internal reliability (alpha reliability = .88). One item uses a 6 point scale ranging from 1 "all of the time" to 6 "at no time"; one item uses a 5-point scale ranging from 1 "very low level of conflict" to 5 "very high level of conflict"; the other 4 items use a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1 "Strongly Agree" to 4 "Strongly Disagree". The total score ranges from 6 to 27, with higher scores indicating more conflict (worse outcome).
Time frame
Baseline and 15 weeksLocations
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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