An interventional study of Parenting Intervention in Child Behavior and Health Behavior, sponsored by University of South Carolina. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 6 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-22.
Sponsored by University of South Carolina · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The main objective of this project is to test whether providing parenting support, with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors, improves the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children.
This pilot project is novel in that it (a) interweaves positive parenting practices, ethnic-racial socialization, and healthy lifestyle behaviors into a prevention program for Black and Latinx families, and (b) targets preschool-aged children using a brief, universal prevention approach, which increases potential for dissemination and scalability. The guiding hypothesis is that incorporating these components into a parenting intervention will lead to improvements in children's health as compared to a control condition. A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation design is used to simultaneously test intervention effectiveness while also gathering information on intervention delivery to inform future implementation trials. The specific aims are to: (a) test the preliminary effects of a preventive intervention on the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children, (b) identify the preliminary effects of the intervention on parenting outcomes, and (c) examine potential barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery.
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Eligible children will:
Exclusion Criteria:
Consistent with typical methods associated with a universal prevention approach, there are minimal exclusion criteria. Children will be excluded who:
parents will participate in a multicomponent parenting intervention
Behavioral: Parenting Intervention
parents will receive information about healthy eating habits
parent training program with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors
child social-emotional functioning
Parent-reported assessment of various positive and negative child behaviors. Likert scale values range from 0 to 2, with higher values typically indicating greater dysfunctional behavior.
Time frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
child physical activity
Time spent sedentary and in light, moderate, and vigorous physical activity each day will be collected using a waterproof accelerometer. Validated methods will be used to identify valid days and derive activity intensities.
Time frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
child sleep
Child average nightly sleep duration and quality will be calculated from data obtained using a waterproof accelerometer.
Time frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
parenting practices
Parent-reported measure of different dimensions of parenting (e.g., harsh parenting, permissive parenting). Likert scale values range from 1 to 7, with higher values indicating greater dysfunctional parenting.
Time frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
ethnic-racial socialization practices
Parent-reported measure of attitudes about and use of various ethnic-racial socialization practices. Likert scale values range from 1 to 5, with higher values indicating more positive ethnic-racial socialization attitudes and practices.
Time frame: pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8)
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