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ATTACH™ Online Platform: Helping Children Vulnerable to Early Adversity

NCT05994027 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2023-09-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Addressing the impact of early childhood adversity (e.g., family violence, parental depression, and low income) can promote children's mental health and development, giving children the best start in life and reducing societal health inequities. Family violence, depression, and low income undermine parent-child relationship quality linked to mental health and developmental problems in children that tend to persist over the lifespan. Parents' reflective function (RF), i.e., the capacity to understand their own and their child's thoughts, feelings, and mental states, can strengthen parent-child relationships and buffer the negative impacts of early adversity on children. Investigators have developed and tested an effective intervention program called ATTACH™ (Attachment and Child Health) for parents and their preschool-aged children at-risk of early adversity. In research with 90 families, investigators found the intervention significantly improved RF, parent-child relationship quality, and children's mental health and development. When COVID-19 prevented in-person intervention at the same time as demand soared for ATTACH™, investigators developed and pilot tested (n=10) an Online platform or "platform" with our community partners, including parents, to deliver the program virtually. The purpose of the study is to propose an effective implementation hybrid (EIH) Type II study of the ATTACH™ Online platform. Co-primary objectives evaluate clinical intervention effectiveness and implementation strategy feasibility of the ATTACH™ Online platform in naturalistic, real-world settings delivered by community partner agencies serving families affected by early adversity in Alberta.

Conditions

  • Parent-Child Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ATTACH™ Online Platform Parenting Program

ATTACH Online Platform: Preserving and promoting optimal RF in parents who are experiencing adversities, enables parents to appropriately attribute affective states to their children and respond accurately to meet their children's needs, thus promoting sensitive/ responsive parent-child relationships.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Calgary

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nicole Letourneau, PhD RN · University of Calgary

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-01
Primary Completion
2024-10-01
Completion
2025-10-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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