Evaluation of the Mother-Child Educational Program (MOCEP) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

NCT04378894 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: RC17/259/R
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP) was developed by the Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV). MOCEP is implemented in Saudi Arabia through a 25-week program conducted by ACEV-trained groups with a curriculum for the child that is implemented at home by the mothers. The program is designed to (1) promote parenting skills and bolster strategies that support school readiness among mothers of 3-to-6- year-old children, and (2) enhance social cohesion in the family and community. Rigorous evaluations of MOCEP have been conducted in several contexts, but not yet in the context of Saudi Arabia. Thus, the present study aims to rigorously evaluate the impact of MOCEP on child and parent outcomes among families in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Conditions

Parenting

Keywords

MOCEP, Parenting, Saudi Arabia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• 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 responsive parenting as reported by the mother

  25 weeks

• International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA)

  An, easy-to-use, rigorous global tool that measures children's early learning and development of children from 3.5 to 6 years of age.

  25 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

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

  25 weeks

• Parenting Stress Index (PSI)

  25 weeks

• Individual Distress Assessment (IDA)

  25 weeks

• Father Involvement Questionnaire (FIQ)

  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. Families in the wait-listed control group will participate in a special awareness program but not MOCEP. Although the families in the wait-listed control group will start 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 - 9 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Mothers must have at least one child between 3 and 6 years of age.
• Mothers must be literate.
• Mothers must be living in the designated implementation areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Mothers must agree to attend the MOCEP program and complete questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the program

You may not qualify if:

• No signed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• King Abdullah International Medical Research Center: lead
• Yale University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Woman and Child Association

Riyadh, 11516, Saudi Arabia

Location

Study Officials

• majid aljeraisy, PHD

  riyadh , saudi arabia

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: The mothers in the control group will take a special awareness program but not MOCEP and the participant, the care providers and the investigators are masked.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: professor of pediatrics infectious Diseases

Model Details: Randomized wait-list controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 5, 2020
• First Posted: May 7, 2020
• Study Start: September 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: March 30, 2020
• Study Completion: December 30, 2020
• Last Updated: September 18, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-09

Locations

SA (1)