None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The project will aim to test a single-session parenting group for parents of children with problem eating. It will add observational data to a trial conducted in 2012. It is anticipated that the group will improve child feeding, the strategies parent use at mealtimes, and how parents think and feel about mealtimes. The study will also seek to identify which types of feeding problems respond best to this intervention.
Interventions
Brief Hassle-Free Mealtimes Triple P (Morawska & Sanders, in press) is a Level 2 Triple P intervention based on the principles of behavioural family intervention and social learning. Parents attending the Hassle-Free Mealtimes program will receive one 2-hour group session on the causes of childhood feeding difficulties, establishing eating routines and ground rules, and various behavioural strategies including praise, positive attention, behaviour charts, modelling, planned ignoring, instructions and consequences. The program will be delivered by trained practitioners to groups of 10-12 parents. Teaching methods will include didactic instruction, active skills training and homework tasks so that parents may achieve mastery of skills.
Sponsors
The University of Queensland
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
2 Years to 5 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Parent of a child aged 2-5 years of age who is concerned about their child's feeding and/or mealtimes.
Exclusion criteria
a) Child with a disability and/or chronic illness, including language and speech impairment; b) Parents currently seeing a professional for the child’s behaviour difficulties; c) Parents currently receiving psychological/psychiatric help or counselling (personal/marital); d) Parents intellectually disabled and/or hearing impaired.
Outcome results
None listed