Parent Engagement Package: Initial Testing of Strategies to Increase Participation in Parenting Interventions

NCT03147547 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 0812003515
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 122
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study evaluated the effectiveness of strategies for engaging parents into parenting programs. Engagement strategies included a booklet showing testimonial quotes and photos from prior participants, a recommendation to attend for the child's teacher, and a motivational call from the parenting program provider. It was hypothesized that the combination of engagement strategies would increase attendance at a parenting intervention compared to receiving only a promotional brochure and research interview.

Conditions

Patient Compliance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Parenting Intervention Attendance

  Number of sessions a caregiver from a student's family attended the parenting intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program

  Attendance was recorded by Triple P providers at each session, once per week for 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Parenting Intervention Enrollment

  from the date engagement strategies commenced until the date the Triple P Positive Parenting Program began, up to 7 weeks

• Parenting Intervention Homework Completion

  collected once per week for 7 weeks, at the beginning of each Triple P Positive Parenting Program sessions 2 through 8

• Parenting Intervention Session Involvement

  collected once per week for 8 weeks, after each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session

• Child Behavior Problems

  collected 1 week before Triple P session 1 and at Triple P post-test, which was 9 weeks after the first behavior reports were collected

Study Arms (2)

Promotional Brochure

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants in this condition received one of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: a promotional brochure with information about the parenting intervention being offered at their child's school, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program. This information included the location of meetings, free childcare, topics covered, choice of English or Spanish groups, meeting day and time, and an enrollment form. Parents who returned the enrollment form received a confirmation letter prior to the first parenting program session.

Other: Promotional Brochure

Parent Engagement Package

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this condition received all engagement strategies in the Parent Engagement Package, which included: 1) the promotional brochure; 2) family testimonial flyer that included photos and quotes from prior participants; 3) teacher endorsement of the Triple P program; 4) provider engagement call to motivate parents to attend; and 5) phone reminders prior to each Triple P session.

Other: Promotional Brochure; Other: Family Testimonial Flyer; Other: Teacher Endorsement; Other: Provider Engagement Call

Interventions

Promotional Brochure OTHER

Promotional brochure with information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.

Parent Engagement Package; Promotional Brochure

Family Testimonial Flyer OTHER

Flyer that included quotes and photos from parents who had previously participated in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and/or their children who participated in the free childcare.

Parent Engagement Package

Teacher Endorsement OTHER

Brief conversation between the parent and their child's teacher in which the teacher told the parent about the benefits of participating in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and recommended the parent attend.

Parent Engagement Package

Provider Engagement Call OTHER

This was a manualized, 20-minute call from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program provider to a parent in which the provider elicited the parent's child-focused goals and showed how the parent's goals could be addressed by Triple P. The provider also helped the parent problem solve barriers to attendance and develop an action plan to handle common barriers (e.g., scheduling conflicts) as well as set session reminders.

Parent Engagement Package

Eligibility Criteria

• Gender Eligibility Details: To be eligible, a caregiver had to self-report that she was the biological or adoptive mother of the target child (i.e., the child in kindergarten or 3rd grade at the participating school).
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Is the biological or adoptive mother of a child in kindergarten or 3rd grade at the participating school (i.e., "target child");
• The target child lived with the mother at least half of the time;
• The mother spoke English or Spanish;

You may not qualify if:

• The target child changed schools;
• The mother reported the target child would be changing schools during the school year;
• The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Arizona State University: lead
• J.B. Sutton Elementary School: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona, 85287-6005, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Winslow EB, Poloskov E, Begay R, Tein JY, Sandler I, Wolchik S. A randomized trial of methods to engage Mexican American parents into a school-based parenting intervention. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2016 Dec;84(12):1094-1107. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000140. Epub 2016 Sep 5.

  PMID: 27599226 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Patient Compliance

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Emily B Winslow, Ph.D.

  Arizona State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: single-blind masking
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Research Professor

Model Details: Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: 1) promotional brochure plus an attention-control research interview or 2) Package Engagement Package

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 18, 2017
• First Posted: May 10, 2017
• Study Start: January 1, 2009
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2010
• Study Completion: May 1, 2010
• Last Updated: May 10, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)