An interventional study of ACT Now GAIN Later and Control Group in Psychological Flexibility, Child Behavior and Relationship, Parent Child, sponsored by University College Dublin. Status unknown at 1 site in Ireland. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 12 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-16.
Sponsored by University College Dublin · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this Randomised Control Trial is to evaluate a Psychologist Guided Self Help Video Parenting Programme based on principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Primary Objectives
Secondary Objectives
Participants will complete a 7 week psychologist guided parenting intervention. Researchers will compare waitlist groups to see if there are differences in psychological flexibility, child behaviour, parent-child relationships, parental well-being or parental self-efficacy.
64 studies on the registry are indexed under Child Behavior; 20 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 150 is below the median of 184 across 61 interventional studies indexed under Child Behavior.
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Exclusion Criteria:
This group will receive a 7-week psychologist guided parenting intervention.
Behavioral: ACT Now GAIN Later
This group will receive pre and post measures but will not receive an intervention until after the final measures have been administered.
Other: Control Group
ACT Now GAIN Later is a Psychologist Guided Self Help Parenting Programme. This has been developed by HSE Senior psychologist,. Dr. Michelle Howard to help parents manage challenging behaviors in their children. Parents of children who are referred to HSE Psychology Services with behavioural difficulties are invited to participate in this 7 week programme.
Waitlist Group
Parental Psychological Flexibility
Psy-Flex: The scale ranges from a minimum score of 6 to a maximum score of 30. Higher scores indicate higher levels of psychological flexibility.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
Child Behaviour
Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory: The scale ranges from 0 - 36. Higher scores indicate more problematic behaviours at greater frequency. Norms also exist for clinical cut off's.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
Parent-Child Relationships
Child-Parent Relationship Scale: There are two sub scales; closeness and conflict. On the closeness sub scale, higher scores indicate better/ more positive parent-child relationships. On the conflict sub scale, lower scores indicate less conflict and higher scores indicate more conflict in the relationship.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
Parental Well-Being
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale: Scale range is 0 - 42. Higher scores indicate more distress. Subscales for anxiety, depression and stress.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
Parental Self-Efficacy
Parental Sense of Competence Scale: Lower scores indicate lower parental sense of competence and high scores indicate high parental sense of competence.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
Parental Self-Efficacy
Parenting Stress Index: Scores range from 18-90. Lower scores indicate lower levels of parenting stress.
Time frame: Pre and Post Intervention (week 1 and week 7 - end of the intervention). Also 3 and 6 months post intervention.
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Start is estimated for May 2024; primary completion for Mar 2025, 9 months later.
Of 48 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Child Behavior, half reached primary completion within 27 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 119. This study's planned 9 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 48 studies reached it within 27 months; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 119.
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