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Watch Me Play!: A pilot study of a remotely delivered mental health intervention for children age 0-8 years

Watch Me Play!: A pilot feasibility study of a remotely delivered Intervention to promote mental health resilience for children (age 0-8 years) across UK early years and children’s services

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN13644899
Enrollment
40
Registered
2023-04-14
Start date
2023-05-31
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-02-10

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Carers of children aged 0 to 8 years-old who have a referral to or have been accepted by an early years/children’s service Not Applicable

Interventions

WMP involves a parent/carer watching the child play and talking to their child about their play (or for babies, observing and following signals) for up to 20 minutes per session. Some sessions are fac

Sponsors

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Consenting parents or carers of children aged 0 to 8 years-old who have a referral to or have been accepted by an early years/children’s service

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Parents/carers currently receiving or planning to receive WMP not within the context of this study in the next 6 months

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Recruitment: Qualitative data from staff and parents/carers on barriers and facilitators of recruitment to the study. Descriptive statistics of the number of parents who have or had (in the previous 24 months, or prior to this) contact with a Social Worker and have been invited to participate, and the number who agree to participate. Collected at screening and following baseline. 2. Retention: Descriptive statistics on the number of participants who remain in the study at 3 months. 3. Adherence to the intervention: Quantitative data to describe the degree to which parents/carers engage with the intervention (descriptive statistics on the number of sessions [total and facilitated] offered and completed, % of participants who completed 10/15 sessions, including all five facilitated sessions). Collected at post-intervention (3 months). 4. Fidelity of WMP programme delivery: A random sample of 25% of the checklists will be rated to determine whether fidelity has been achieved: each of the five items is rated as achieved (2), partially achieved (1) and not yet achieved (0). For a session to be completed with acceptable fidelity, it is expected that a score of 10 out of 15 items will be ‘achieved. Measured at post-intervention (3 months). 5. Assessment of the barriers and facilitators to implementation: qualitative data from delivery staff and managers on the acceptability and feasibility of offering online WMP, including the barriers and facilitators of delivering WMP; qualitative data on whether implementation differed across different types of services; quantitative data from the standardised WMP checklist that practitioners complete after each session with caregiver(s) to describe fidelity of implementation. Collected at post-intervention (3 months). 6. Acceptability of WMP to parents, WMP practitioners and service managers: qualitative data from the process evaluation interviews at post-intervention (3 months) 7. Treatment as usual (TAU) description: Descriptive

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Percentage completion of all questionnaire measures, including the health economic measures of EQ-5D and service use at baseline and 3-month follow-up: 1.1. Child mental health measured using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) 1.2. Child mental health measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) 1.3. Child socialisation and communication measured using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale 3 1.4. Parenting stress measured using the Parent Stress Index-Short Form 1.5. Parenting competence measured using the Being a Parent scale 1.6. Parent-child relationship quality measured using the Mothers’ Object Relations Scale-Short Form (MORS-SF) and MORS (Child) for 0-3 years, the Parent-Child Relationship Scale for 3+ years, and the frequency of parent-child activities (Parent-Child Activity Index) 1.7. Parent-child interaction assessed using a 20-minute videotaped free-play interaction between the parent/caregiver and the child (n = 8 baseline participants) 1.8. Parent/carer health-related quality of life measured using EQ-5D-5L 1.9. Service use for child measured using a modified version of the Child and Adolescent Service Use Schedule (CA-SUS) 2. Intervention costs: Descriptive cost data of WMP delivery across study sites at baseline and follow-up (3 months)

Countries

United Kingdom, Wales

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 8, 2026