Parenting Program for Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioral Issues: A Randomized Control Trial

NCT06178705 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: Govt.CUF
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The main objectives of the study are:

1. 1.To find out the effectiveness of Helpful Parenting Program (HPP) for psychological functioning of children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.
2. 2.To decrease psychological distress among children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.

Conditions

Parent-Child Relations

Keywords

HPP, Parenting, Emotional & behavioral issues

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Strength and difficulty questionnaire

  This scale will assess the parents strength and difficulty dealing the child

  4 months

• Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale

  This scale will assess the level of depression, anxiety and stress among the parents of emotionally disturbed child

  4 months

• Dyadic Adjustment Scale

  This scale will assess the parents level of adjustment

  4 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Parenting Scale

  4 months

• Parents sense of competence scale

  4 months

Study Arms (2)

Treatment Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental Group: Participants in experimental group would receive 8-10 sessions of intervention based helpful parenting program

Behavioral: Helpful Parenting Program Intervention

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Control Group: Participants in the control group will not receive the said intervention of helpful parenting program.

Interventions

Helpful Parenting Program Intervention BEHAVIORAL

8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional \& behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting

Treatment Group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Only parents with dysfunctional parenting practices, having children with emotional and behavioral issues would be a part of the study. Second, Only parents would be included in the study who score above 18 on SDQ-4. Only parents having children aged 5 to 12 years would be included in the study. The participants would be taken from any socioeconomic status.

You may not qualify if:

• Parents with major psychological disorders would be excluded from the study. The parent served as single parent would be excluded from the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Government College University Faisalabad: lead

Study Sites (1)

Qasir Abbas

Faisalabad, Punjab Province, 38000, Pakistan

Location

Study Officials

• Qasir Abbas, PHD

  Government College University Faisalabad

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr. Qasir Abbas Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology

Model Details: Randomized control trial design would be used in this study which is two arm study having two groups, an experimental \& wait-list control group. Experimental group will receive intervention while other group will be placed in wait-list. In this study, parallel group design would be used. The treatment will be given to all participants in a parallel way. Allocation ratio and framework would be equivalence i.e., equal number of participants in treatment and control group.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2023
• First Posted: December 21, 2023
• Study Start: November 15, 2023
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2024
• Study Completion: April 10, 2024
• Last Updated: December 21, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

PA (1)