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Conditions
Brief summary
A randomized controlled trial design will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the online version of the self-help Triple P Positive Parenting Program (TPOL) in comparison to a waitlist control group, in a sample of parents of preschool children with hyperactive/ inattentive behaviour problems. Parents will also receive two telephone support calls from a Triple P Practitioner, in order to maximize programme participation and enhance parental problem-solving and self-regulation skills. Pre-intervention, post-intervention and 6-month follow-up assessment will be collected on a range of parenting and child behaviour measures. The waitlist control group will gain access to the online programme after the assessments on all three time points are completed.
Interventions
The Triple P Positive Parenting Program is a multilevel parenting and family support strategy that aims to prevent behavioural, emotional and developmental problems in children. Triple P Online is a self-administered, interactive parenting programme, delivered via the internet. The programme aims to teach parents the use of 17 core child-management strategies. There are eight sequenced modules: 1) What is positive parenting?; 2) Skills for encouraging behaviour you like; 3) Teaching new skills;
The Triple P Positive Parenting Program is a multilevel parenting and family support strategy that aims to prevent behavioural, emotional and developmental problems in children. Triple P Online is a self-administered, interactive parenting programme, delivered via the internet. The programme aims to teach parents the use of 17 core child-management strategies. There are eight sequenced modules: 1) What is positive parenting?; 2) Skills for encouraging behaviour you like; 3) Teaching new skills; 4) Managing misbehaviour; 5) Dealing with disobedience; 6) Preventing problems by planning ahead; 7) Making shopping fun; and 8) Raising confident, capable kids. Triple P Online incorporates elements designed to engage participants and improve knowledge acquisition, positive self-efficacy, and behaviour activation. These elements include: 1) user-friendly navigation; 2) video-based modelling of parenting skills, and diverse parent ‘voxpops’ describing their experiences; 3) personalized content including goal setting, review and feedback; 4) interactive exercises to prompt parental problem solving, decision making and self-regulation; 5) downloadable worksheets and podcasts to review session content; and 5) automated text messaging and email prompting to increase the likelihood of programme completion. The programme also provides parents with a customizable and printable workbook that records programme content, parents’ goals and responses to exercises. The programme will take 30 minutes per week for a period of eight weeks. Two telephone consultations with a Triple P practitioner will be added to the programme in order to maximize participation in the programme and enhance parental problem-solving and self-regulation skills. These telephone sessions will take at least ten minutes, but not more than 30 minutes and willl take place in week two and four of the study. A randomised controlled trial design will be used to evaluate the effects of participation in the online parenting programme in comparison with a wait-list control group.
Sponsors
University of Auckland
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
19 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
- Parent has a child of 3- or 4-year old. - The target child has an elevated level of hyperactivity and/ or inattention according to following measures: 'Werry-Weiss-Peters questionnaire' (score of 14 or higher) and the preschool version of the clinical interview 'Parental Account of Child Symptoms (PACS)' (score of 16 or higher), and parental concern over impairment based on a score of 1 or more on the PACS perceived severity scale or impact scale - Parent has access to a computer and broadband internet.
Exclusion criteria
- Parent who is currently seeing a professional for the child’s behaviour difficulties (rationale: if the target child is receiving support from another service, then it will be difficult to disentangle potential benefits gained from the provided programme from those gained by this external support). - Parent/s is currently seeing a health professional for emotional or psychological problems (rationale: if parents are receiving support from another service, then it will be difficult to disentangle potential benefits gained from the provided programme from those gained by this external support). - Parents with a child suffering from a developmental disability, i.e., autism, intellectual disability, or chronic illness (rationale: the self-help version of Triple P is designed for children with behavioural problems that are otherwise normally developing. A modified version of Triple P, Stepping Stones Triple P, has been specifically designed to meet the unique needs of parents who have children with a developmental or health disability. - Parents who are not able to read an English newspaper without assistance (rationale: the written online materials of this programme are not suitable for parents who cannot read a newspaper without assistance).
Outcome results
None listed