Supporting Refugee Parenting Community and Family Mental Health in Tijuana

NCT06080139 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 69854
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 84
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to better understand and support parenting practices and family mental health among migrant parents in Tijuana, Mexico. the main questions it aims to answer are:

1. 1.What parenting skills are most needed for learning?
2. 2.How can we teach them in a participatory way respecting cultural values and norms?
3. 3.How does this parenting program affect parental and child interactions and mental health?
4. 4.have the opportunity to give their opinions on the priority parenting skills needed and on which curriculum to use for learning these skills;
5. 5.participate in small group learning sessions twice a week for 4 weeks;
6. 6.be asked to complete a few surveys before and after the learning sessions, and 2 months after they complete the learning sessions.

Conditions

Refugee Health

Keywords

parenting; parental mental health; child behavior; prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• parenting knowledge

  20 multiple choice questions (scores 0-20)

  immediately before intervention and after 4-week intervention period

• Child behavior and parental efficacy

  Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale (total scores 0-81, parental efficacy scores 19-190)

  immediately before intervention and after 4-week intervention period

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Observed parent-child interactions

  immediately before intervention, after 4-week intervention period, and 2-month post-intervenion follow-up

• parental stress

  immediately before intervention, after 4-week intervention period, and 2-month post-intervenion follow-up

• Qualitative feedback

  after 4-week intervention period and at 2-month post-intervenion follow-up

• parenting knowledge

  post intervention and at 2-month post-intervenion follow-up

• Child behavior and parental efficacy

  post interventionand and at 2-month post-intervenion follow-up

Study Arms (2)

parenting sessions group

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm will receive a culturally adapted parenting curriculum twice a week for 4 weeks during month 3 of the study

Behavioral: Refugee parenting education in a participatory community

waitlist control group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This arm will receive a handout about parenting techniques in Spanish during month 3. They then receive the same parenting curriculum during month 4.

Behavioral: Refugee parenting education in a participatory community

Interventions

Refugee parenting education in a participatory community BEHAVIORAL

Parents will vote for one of the 5 previously studied refugee parenting curriculums: 1) Creating Opportunities Through Mentoring Parenting Involvement and Safe Space (COMPASS); 2) GenerationPMTO; 3) Happy Families; 4) Family Strengthening Intervention for Refugees (FSI-R). Researchers will use a model of Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI), to empower community members in the learning process. LOPI is a multicomponent way of organizing group learning that improves collaboration, alertness, and executive functions such as perspective-taking and self-regulation in addition to specific skills learning and has been used in many indigenous and indigenous-heritage communities of the Americas.

parenting sessions group; waitlist control group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• all consenting parents staying at refugee shelters in Tijuana

You may not qualify if:

• known date of leaving Tijuana in less than 3 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Stanford University: lead
• Universidad Iberoamericana: collaborator
• PILA Global: collaborator
• Fulbright: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Canyon Nest

Tijuana, Estado de Baja California, 22526, Mexico

Location

Related Links

• Stanford link to study description and contact

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Child Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Xinshu She, MD, MPH

  Stanford University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: CARE PROVIDER, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 22, 2023
• First Posted: October 12, 2023
• Study Start: February 6, 2024
• Primary Completion: May 30, 2024
• Study Completion: June 23, 2024
• Last Updated: July 31, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

ME (1)