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Promoting Children's Mental Health: The Effects of a Parenting Program

NCT03030352 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 315

Last updated 2018-10-15

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Summary

The objectives of the How-to parenting program are 1) to improve optimal parenting style, and 2) to foster children mental health (i.e. decrease in internalized and externalized problems, and well-being). The investigators expect that parents assigned to experimental groups will show improvements in parenting over time (i.e improvements in parental affiliation, parental structure and parental attitude toward autonomy), whereas parents in control groups will not show such improvements (i.e., stable or declining parenting quality). The investigators also expect children of parents in experimental groups to experience improvements in child mental health (i.e., fewer internalized and externalized psychological problems and increased well-being), whereas children whose parents are on the wait list will not show improvements over time (i.e., stable or deteriorating mental health and well-being).

Conditions

  • Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

How-to Parenting Program

The How-to Parenting Program addresses all three key dimensions of optimal parenting; autonomy support, affiliation and structure. With weekly workshops, the How-to-Parenting Program optimizes learning by (1) linking group content with parents' needs, (2) facilitating awareness with perspective taking activities, (3) offering concrete parenting skills, (4) modeling the skills and providing practice in a predictable and non-judgmental environment, (5) emphasizing the importance of implementing these skills at home for long term behavioral change, and (6) offering tools (i.e., exercise booklet, skill summary) that facilitate information retention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Université de Montréal

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mireille Joussemet, Ph.D. · Université de Montréal

  • Geneviève Mageau, Ph.D. · Université de Montréal

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-02-28
Primary Completion
2017-04-28
Completion
2018-06-15

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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