Parents' Differential Susceptibility to Microtrial

NCT ID: NCT05539170

Last Updated: 2025-08-14

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

101 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-01

Study Completion Date

2025-02-14

Brief Summary

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This randomized controlled microtrial, not just focus on parental (and child) responsiveness but also on an underlying physiological mechanism hypothesized to contribute to heightened susceptibility to parenting interventions.

Detailed Description

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After being informed about the study, all participants giving written informed consent will be randomly assigned to the "micro" intervention condition (i.e., immediate positive parenting feedback) or care-as-usual control condition in a singe-blind manner in a 1:1 ratio.

Conditions

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Parenting Child Behavior Parent-Child Relations

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

"micro" parenting intervention vs. care-as-usual control condition
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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"micro" parenting intervention

Parents will be instructed to bring the completed questionnaires with them to the university lab. Then, in the lab, parents will be observed interacting with their child. Following these baseline conditions, half of the parents will receive the "micro" parenting intervention-in the form of individual positive feedback concerning their parenting and their child's behavior.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Immediate positive parenting feedback

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Individual positive feedback concerning their parenting and their child's behavior.

care-as-usual condition

Participants in the care-as-usual control condition receive no immediate positive parenting feedback but will also be taken aside without their child, receiving only the instructions of the experiment.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Immediate positive parenting feedback

Individual positive feedback concerning their parenting and their child's behavior.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Parents with children aged 4-6 years.

Exclusion Criteria

* psychiatric/neurological disorder (as reported by the parent)
* mental retardation (IQ \< 70)
* not mastering the Dutch language, and
* that their child is not living in another household during the weekdays
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Tilburg University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rabia Chhangur

Assistant professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Rabia R. Chhangur, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Tilburg University

Locations

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Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Tilburg, , Netherlands

Site Status

Countries

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Netherlands

References

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Chhangur RR, Belsky J. Parents' differential susceptibility to a "micro" parenting intervention: Rationale and study protocol for a randomized controlled microtrial. PLoS One. 2023 Mar 22;18(3):e0282207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282207. eCollection 2023.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36947489 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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TSB_RP604

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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