Parent Engagement Package: Comparing Strategies for Engaging Parents Into Parenting Programs

NCT03147716 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: STUDY00001365R01DA033352
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 854
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study tests the effectiveness of different strategies for engaging parents into an evidence-based parenting skills intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, offered universally to parents of children attending one of six public elementary schools.

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 at the Triple P Positive Parenting Program was collected once per week for 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• 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 at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline

• Parenting Skills

  collected at baseline and at Triple P post-test, an average of 7 months after baseline

Study Arms (5)

Enrollment Flyer

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants in this condition received one of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: an enrollment flyer that provided information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program being offered at their child's school, including the location of meetings, free childcare, topics covered, choice of days/times and English or Spanish groups, and an enrollment form. Parents who returned the enrollment form received automated text, email and/or phone reminders and a confirmation letter prior to each parenting program session.

Other: Enrollment Flyer

Enrollment Flyer & Testimonial Booklet

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this condition received two of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: the enrollment flyer plus a two-page, testimonial booklet that included photos and quotes from parents and children describing benefits other parents reported after participating in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and fun activities children reported about the childcare. The booklet also contained the location of meetings, free childcare, choice of days/times and English or Spanish groups, and an enrollment form.

Other: Enrollment Flyer; Other: Testimonial Booklet

Enrollment Flyer & Teacher Endorsement

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this condition received two of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: the enrollment flyer plus a teacher endorsement of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program. The teacher also gave the participant a colorful brochure that included information about the location of meetings, free childcare, topics covered, choice of days/times and English or Spanish groups, and an enrollment form.

Other: Enrollment Flyer; Other: Teacher Endorsement

Enrollment Flyer & Engagement Call

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this condition received two of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: the enrollment flyer plus an engagement call from a Triple P provider. Providers followed a manualized protocol for implementing the engagement call, which included strategies to increase parental motivation to participate in Triple P and reduce barriers to participation.

Other: Enrollment Flyer; Other: Provider Engagement Call

All Engagement Strategies

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this condition received all engagement strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: enrollment flyer, testimonial booklet, teacher endorsement, and provider engagement call.

Other: Enrollment Flyer; Other: Testimonial Booklet; Other: Teacher Endorsement; Other: Provider Engagement Call

Interventions

Enrollment Flyer OTHER

Enrollment flyer that provided information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.

All Engagement Strategies; Enrollment Flyer; Enrollment Flyer & Engagement Call; Enrollment Flyer & Teacher Endorsement; Enrollment Flyer & Testimonial Booklet

Testimonial Booklet OTHER

Booklet 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, as well as an enrollment form.

All Engagement Strategies; Enrollment Flyer & Testimonial Booklet

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 that the parent attend. The teacher also gave the parent a brochure that gave information about the Triple P program and an enrollment form.

All Engagement Strategies; Enrollment Flyer & Teacher Endorsement

Provider Engagement Call OTHER

This was a manualized, 15-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 anticipate and problem solve possible barriers to attendance.

All Engagement Strategies; Enrollment Flyer & Engagement Call

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Is a caregiver of a child in kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade at a participating school (i.e.,"target child");
• The target child lives with the caregiver at least half of the time;
• The caregiver speaks English or Spanish;
• The caregiver is listed as one of the target child's parents/guardians in the school's records.

You may not qualify if:

• The target child is in a self-contained classroom due to cognitive or emotional disabilities;
• The caregiver is a kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade teacher at a participating school;
• The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study;
• The caregiver is participating in a competing parenting program at the school, the "Intensive Family Literacy program".

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Arizona State University: lead
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): collaborator
• Mesa Public Schools: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona, 85287-6005, United States

Location

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 are randomly assigned to one of five conditions: 1) enrollment flyer only; 2) enrollment flyer + testimonial booklet; 3) enrollment flyer + teacher endorsement; 4) enrollment flyer + provider engagement call; or 5) all four engagement strategies.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 17, 2017
• First Posted: May 10, 2017
• Study Start: October 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2017
• Study Completion: June 1, 2017
• Last Updated: August 9, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)