None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Childhood eczema is one of the most common chronic health conditions among children. There is no cure, and it places an enormous burden on affected children and their families. Interventions to help parents develop the skills to handle challenging child behaviour, manage their own stress, and implement treatment consistently can improve children’s health outcomes. Brief parenting intervention is effective in targeting the child behaviour and parenting challenges that can make condition management more difficult for parents; however, face-to-face intervention delivery poses a barrier to many families and limits accessibility and reach. This research will examine whether a self-directed online parenting intervention can deliver the same outcomes as a face-to-face group program, leading to improvements in parenting practices, parents' self-efficacy with eczema management, child emotional and behavioural adjustment, health-related quality of life, symptom severity, and treatment adherence, with better accessibility and at lower cost. Given the current pandemic, it is essential that we harness online and telehealth approaches to ensure that evidence-based programs are able to be accessed by the families who need them. This research will examine a novel and unique application of an online parenting intervention that will complement existing health care services and make a significant difference to Australian children.
Interventions
"Healthy Living Triple P" is a brief parent education and skills-training program developed for families of children with a chronic health conditon. The online version of the program comprises eight interactive online modules delivered via EdX. Modules explore the impacts of children’s chronic illness on child, parent, and family; help parents to identify parenting challenges; and support parents to identify goals for change. They provide parents with strategies to prevent/manage problems with i
"Healthy Living Triple P" is a brief parent education and skills-training program developed for families of children with a chronic health conditon. The online version of the program comprises eight interactive online modules delivered via EdX. Modules explore the impacts of children’s chronic illness on child, parent, and family; help parents to identify parenting challenges; and support parents to identify goals for change. They provide parents with strategies to prevent/manage problems with illness management and child behaviour and promote treatment adherence. They also introduce principles of positive parenting to promote positive parenting practices and environments conducive to caring relationships between parents and children, including a discussion of why children with chronic health conditions are at risk of behaviour problems. Finally, they examine common parenting traps and the use of effective parenting and discipline strategies. Modules incorporate written text, video material, interactive exercises, and downloadable tip sheets. Parents progress through the material at their own pace over a two-week period; can return to previously completed modules; and can download the written material and completed exercises. Families allocated to the intervention group will also receive standardised education about their child’s eczema via an online eczema education module, which provides up-to-date, evidence-based information about aetiology of eczema, signs and symptoms, triggers, treatment options, and management tips and strategies. Website analytics will be used to assess intervention engagement - number of modules accessed/completed, time taken, and exercises completed.
Sponsors
Dr Amy Mitchell
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Parents of 2- to 10-year-old children with eczema who are currently prescribed topical corticosteroids
Exclusion criteria
Child has a disability, including language and speech impairment. Parents are currently seeing a professional for the child’s behaviour difficulties. Parents are currently receiving psychological help or counselling. The parents have previously completed Triple P. The parents unable to read at a fifth-grade reading level.
Outcome results
None listed