Mother and Child Education Program in Palestinian Refugee Camps

NCT02402556 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 1403013605
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 106
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 3

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP)-a group-based early childhood development parenting education program-is to provide school-readiness and parenting skills to mothers of young children who do not have access to preschool education services. The MOCEP intervention also provides a setting in which caregivers can model pro-social behaviors and practice conflict resolution techniques directly with young children.

Conditions

Parenting

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Disciplinary Style Questionnaire

  Parent report measure of parental disciplinary style assesses the frequency with which parents engage in seven forms of discipline when dealing with children's undesirable behavior

  25 weeks

• Better Parenting Questionnaire

  11 Item questionnaire that measures parental knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding education and learning, child development and discipline / child rearing.

  25 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Socio-Emotional Status: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (child assessment)

  25 weeks

• Parental Stress Index

  25 weeks

• Duke Social Support Index

  25 weeks

Study Arms (2)

MOCEP

EXPERIMENTAL

MOCEP is implemented over a period of 25 weeks, through weekly group meetings that last approximately three hours.

Behavioral: MOCEP

Waitlist Control Group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

For ethical reasons, no one recruited will be excluded from the opportunity to benefit from the intervention. MOCEP group will be the primary intervention group and the second group will act as the wait-listed control group. Although the families in the wait-listed control group will start out as a control group (not receiving the intervention), they will have the opportunity to participate in the intervention in a later round of implementation, after the intervention group has completed the program.

Behavioral: MOCEP

Interventions

MOCEP BEHAVIORAL

Through parent support and an evidence-based curriculum, MOCEP uses education to reduce risk factors that hinder children's health and wellbeing.

MOCEP; Waitlist Control Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 6 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Child must be between 3 and 6 years of age (children age 7 may be accepted under special circumstances)
• Mother must be able to read and write in Arabic (although skills may not be well-developed)
• Mothers must commit to participate in the 25-week MOCEP Intervention program

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yale University: lead

Study Sites (3)

Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp

Beirut, Lebanon

Location

Charila

Beirut, Lebanon

Location

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Beirut, Lebanon

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Ponguta LA, Issa G, Aoudeh L, Maalouf C, Hein SD, Zonderman AL, Katsovich L, Khoshnood K, Bick J, Awar A, Nourallah S, Householder S, Moore CC, Salah R, Britto PR, Leckman JF. Effects of the Mother-Child Education Program on Parenting Stress and Disciplinary Practices Among Refugee and Other Marginalized Communities in Lebanon: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020 Jun;59(6):727-738. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.12.010. Epub 2020 Jan 31.

  PMID: 32014538 DERIVED

Study Officials

• James Leckman, MD

  Yale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 25, 2015
• First Posted: March 30, 2015
• Study Start: May 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2016
• Study Completion: September 1, 2016
• Last Updated: December 2, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-12

Locations

LE (3)