None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This project will develop and evaluate a novel parenting program that aims to improve young adolescents’ mental health by teaching adaptive parenting skills to their parents. The trial randomises parents/children to either the parenting intervention or enhanced usual care. The intervention involves teaching adaptive parenting skills to parents, and assessing the impact on children. This new program has the potential to shape mental health initiatives on how to improve adolescents’ psychological wellbeing in low-and-middle-income countries.
Interventions
There are two arms to this trial. Arm 1 is the intervention arm, and comprises a program titled Problem Management Plus Parenting (PM+P), which involves once-weekly 90 minute sessions delivered by a facilitator over 7 weeks delivered to groups of 8-10 parents at a time. PM+P will teach the following parenting strategies: effective communication, problem solving, positive reinforcement, and alternatives to harsh punitive parenting practices. Facilitators will be local non-specialist psychosocial
There are two arms to this trial. Arm 1 is the intervention arm, and comprises a program titled Problem Management Plus Parenting (PM+P), which involves once-weekly 90 minute sessions delivered by a facilitator over 7 weeks delivered to groups of 8-10 parents at a time. PM+P will teach the following parenting strategies: effective communication, problem solving, positive reinforcement, and alternatives to harsh punitive parenting practices. Facilitators will be local non-specialist psychosocial workers trained face-to-face in Jordan by the authors of the program over 10 full days conducted 1 month prior to commencement of the trial. Facilitators will receive supervision through the trial. Sessions will be conducted in clinics in Jordan. Treatment adherence will be assessed by facilitators monitoring session attendance. Arm 1 participants will receive 7 weeks of intervention and 52 weeks of follow-up assessment, resulting in a total participation duration of 62 weeks.
Sponsors
UNSW Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
10 Years to 14 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
(a) Resident of Jordan (b) aged 10-14 years (c) residing with a related caregiver who could provide legal consent and participate in the trial (d) scored at least 15 on the Paediatric Symptom Scale (PSC-17) (e) caregiver willing to attend the group program
Exclusion criteria
(a) imminent risk of suicide (b) significant developmental, cognitive, or neurological impairments as determined by four items from an adapted version of the Ten Questions instrument
Outcome results
None listed