Brief Primary Care Intervention Helps Parents With Discipline

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00875303

Enrollment

258

Registered

2009-04-03

Start date

2008-06-30

Completion date

2008-07-31

Last updated

2011-10-28

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Conditions

Discipline

Keywords

Parents' plans to discipline their children

Brief summary

Play Nicely, is a 40 minute, interactive, media-rich, CD ROM that teaches parents, health care professionals, counselors, and child care workers/teachers the basics in aggression management for children ages 1-7. For more information about the program and to review results of previous studies, see www.playnicely.org. The objective of this study is to determine if using this brief intervention during the well child visit can affect parents' plans to discipline their children.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALPlay Nicely program

The intervention was the Play Nicely program, a multimedia educational program. Permission to demonstrate the program to multiple viewers was obtained from the copyright holder. English speaking caregivers viewed the 2nd English language edition and Spanish speaking caregivers viewed the Spanish edition. In the program, there are 16 options (20 options in the Spanish version) to respond to the hypothetical situation of witnessing a young child have hurtful behavior toward another child. Caregivers in the intervention group were instructed to view 4 of the interactive options of their choosing. On average, it takes 1 minute to view one option. Parents in the control group received routine primary care with their pediatrician.

BEHAVIORALControl

Routine primary care.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* English or Spanish speaking parents of 1-5 year old children presenting to the Vanderbilt Primary Care Clinic for a well child visit.

Exclusion criteria

* Caregiver could not speak English or Spanish.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
As a result of the well child visit, parents' plans to change how they discipline their children.	Same day as well child visit.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Parents' report of number of minutes of discussion between physician and parent about childhood behavior or discipline.	Same day

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026