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Parenting Program for Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioral Issues: A Randomized Control Trial

NCT ID: NCT06178705

Last Updated: 2023-12-21

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-11-15

Study Completion Date

2024-04-10

Brief Summary

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The main objectives of the study are:

1. To find out the effectiveness of Helpful Parenting Program (HPP) for psychological functioning of children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.
2. To decrease psychological distress among children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.

Detailed Description

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In this Helpful Parenting Program, N=200 participants would be enrolled for eligibility assessment from different schools in Faisalabad. 70 participants after the eligibility assessment and screening would be allocated to experimental and waitlist treatment condition. Participants would be allocated through random assignment using block randomization. In experimental group, the parents of children with emotional \& behavioral issues will be included and 8 to 10 sessions of helpful parenting program would be provided to the parents. Each of the group will be comprised of n=35.

Eligibility Criteria:

Only parents with dysfunctional parenting practices, having children with emotional and behavioral issues would be a part of the study. Second, Only parents would be included in the study who score above 18 on SDQ-4. Only parents having children aged 5 to 12 years would be included in the study. Parents with major psychological disorders would be excluded from the study. The parent served as single parent would be excluded from the study.The participants would be taken from any socioeconomic status.

Interventions:

8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional \& behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting.

Expected Outcomes:

This study will help to provide valuable information to mental health professionals to understand and develop guidelines for parents of children with emotional \& behavioral issues. Further, this program would decrease psychological distress \& couple's problematic conflicts among parents and improve the psychological functioning of parents. Moreover, this program will improve parental competence and make them independent problem solvers.

Conditions

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Parent-Child Relations

Keywords

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HPP, Parenting, Emotional & behavioral issues

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Randomized control trial design would be used in this study which is two arm study having two groups, an experimental \& wait-list control group. Experimental group will receive intervention while other group will be placed in wait-list. In this study, parallel group design would be used. The treatment will be given to all participants in a parallel way. Allocation ratio and framework would be equivalence i.e., equal number of participants in treatment and control group.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Treatment Group

Experimental Group:

Participants in experimental group would receive 8-10 sessions of intervention based helpful parenting program

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Helpful Parenting Program Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional \& behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting

Control Group

Control Group:

Participants in the control group will not receive the said intervention of helpful parenting program.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Helpful Parenting Program Intervention

8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional \& behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Only parents with dysfunctional parenting practices, having children with emotional and behavioral issues would be a part of the study. Second, Only parents would be included in the study who score above 18 on SDQ-4. Only parents having children aged 5 to 12 years would be included in the study. The participants would be taken from any socioeconomic status.

Exclusion Criteria

* Parents with major psychological disorders would be excluded from the study. The parent served as single parent would be excluded from the study.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Government College University Faisalabad

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Qasir Abbas

Dr. Qasir Abbas Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Qasir Abbas, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Government College University Faisalabad

Locations

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Qasir Abbas

Faisalabad, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Site Status

Countries

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Pakistan

Other Identifiers

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Govt.CUF

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id