None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
While evidence-based parenting programs have been shown to be effective for the treatment of child conduct problems, their effective dissemination is a major challenge for the field. Online interventions can increase the reach and accessibility of parenting support, and reduce the prevalence of child behaviour problems. This study aims to evaluate a brief online parenting program for parents of children with conduct problems. It is expected that program completion of the intervention has the potential to reduce ineffective and coercive parenting practices, and lead to improved child behavioural and emotional adjustment and better family wellbeing.
Interventions
Brief Triple P Online is a low intensity, self-administered online parenting program. It is designed to promote positive parenting practices and uses the flexibility of the internet to enhance parents‘ learning experiences. It incorporates elements designed to engage participants and improve knowledge acquisition, positive self-efficacy, and behaviour activation. These elements include: i) user friendly navigation; ii) video-based modelling of parenting skills; iii) personalised content; iv) int
Brief Triple P Online is a low intensity, self-administered online parenting program. It is designed to promote positive parenting practices and uses the flexibility of the internet to enhance parents‘ learning experiences. It incorporates elements designed to engage participants and improve knowledge acquisition, positive self-efficacy, and behaviour activation. These elements include: i) user friendly navigation; ii) video-based modelling of parenting skills; iii) personalised content; iv) interactive exercises to prompt parental problem solving, decision making and self-regulation. Cultural sensitivity is achieved through the use of multicultural video models and a self-regulatory framework that enables parents to select goals informed by their own values, beliefs, and traditions. Users receive personal log-in details and complete the online program on their home computers/tablets in their own time. The 5 program modules take between 20-30 minutes each to complete and parents have access to the program for 8 weeks. The module topics cover some of the most common issues presented by parents. The first module introduces positive parenting strategies and makes parents aware of parent traps. The remaining modules focus on behaviour specific (disobedience, fighting) and setting specific (out of home) application of this knowledge.
Sponsors
Prof. Matthew R. Sanders
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
2 Years to 9 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
The eligibility criteria are: 1) the presence in the family of a 2-9 year old child for whom parents report clinically elevated levels of child behaviour problems; 2) access to a computer or tablet and a broadband internet connection; and 3) the parent‘s ability to read English at grade 5 level.
Exclusion criteria
The exclusion criteria include: i) the child has a disability including language and speech impairment; ii) the parents are currently seeing a professional for the child‘s behaviour difficulties; iii) the parents are currently receiving psychological help or counselling; or iv) the parents are intellectually disabled.
Outcome results
None listed