A Brief Multimedia Program Affects Parents' Attitudes Toward Physical Punishment

NCT ID: NCT01459510

Last Updated: 2023-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 260 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2010-08-31

Brief Summary

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents receive anticipatory guidance about how to discipline their children as part of the well child visit. However, physicians provide counseling only 25-40% of the time. In regard to the type of discipline, the AAP recommends that primary care providers encourage parent to use non-physical forms of discipline and discourage parents from using physical punishment. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents were exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents were invited to participate in a research study to assess their attitudes about physical punishment and other discipline strategies. The key research question of this study is: Can a brief multimedia program (i.e. Play Nicely program) affect parents' attitudes about the use of physical punishment? The time frame of the study was June through August of 2010. Data was collected immediately after the clinic visit and 2-4 weeks post clinic visit.

Detailed Description

Note: Because of a poor follow up rate with the 2-4 week phone call, this effort to collect follow up data was unsuccessful.

Conditions

Violence Prevention

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

multi media intervention

Play Nicely Program

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Play Nicely Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Multi media educational intervention

Routine primary care

Routine primary care

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Play Nicely Program

Multi media educational intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

English and Spanish speaking parents of 6-24 month old children presenting for a primary care visit in the Vanderbilt Pediatric Primary Care Clinic.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Vanderbilt University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Seth Scholer

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Seth J Scholer, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Vanderbilt University

Locations

Vanderbilt Medical Center, Primary clinic

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Countries

United States

References

Scholer SJ, Hamilton EC, Johnson MC, Scott TA. A brief intervention may affect parents' attitudes toward using less physical punishment. Fam Community Health. 2010 Apr-Jun;33(2):106-16. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e3181d592ef.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 20216353 (View on PubMed)

Scholer SJ, Hudnut-Beumler J, Dietrich MS. A brief primary care intervention helps parents develop plans to discipline. Pediatrics. 2010 Feb;125(2):e242-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0874. Epub 2010 Jan 18.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 20083523 (View on PubMed)

Chavis A, Hudnut-Beumler J, Webb MW, Neely JA, Bickman L, Dietrich MS, Scholer SJ. A brief intervention affects parents' attitudes toward using less physical punishment. Child Abuse Negl. 2013 Dec;37(12):1192-201. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.06.003. Epub 2013 Jul 13.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 23859768 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

http://www.playnicely.org

Website for program that teaches discipline strategies

Other Identifiers

100533

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id