Child Behavior, Health Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
parent training, randomized controlled trial, pilot study, child development, implementation trial, prevention
Brief summary
The main objective of this project is to test whether providing parenting support, with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors, improves the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children.
Detailed description
This pilot project is novel in that it (a) interweaves positive parenting practices, ethnic-racial socialization, and healthy lifestyle behaviors into a prevention program for Black and Latinx families, and (b) targets preschool-aged children using a brief, universal prevention approach, which increases potential for dissemination and scalability. The guiding hypothesis is that incorporating these components into a parenting intervention will lead to improvements in children's health as compared to a control condition. A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation design is used to simultaneously test intervention effectiveness while also gathering information on intervention delivery to inform future implementation trials. The specific aims are to: (a) test the preliminary effects of a preventive intervention on the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children, (b) identify the preliminary effects of the intervention on parenting outcomes, and (c) examine potential barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALParenting Intervention
parent training program with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors
Sponsors
University of South Carolina
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 6 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Eligible children will: * be between the ages of 3-6 years * identify as Black/African American or Latinx/Hispanic * have a parent or caregiver willing to participate in the intervention that: (a) lives in the same household as the child ≥50% of the time, (b) has primary responsibility for the child, and (c) speaks English or Spanish.
Exclusion criteria
Consistent with typical methods associated with a universal prevention approach, there are minimal
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| child social-emotional functioning | pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8) | Parent-reported assessment of various positive and negative child behaviors. Likert scale values range from 0 to 2, with higher values typically indicating greater dysfunctional behavior. |
| child physical activity | pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8) | Time spent sedentary and in light, moderate, and vigorous physical activity each day will be collected using a waterproof accelerometer. Validated methods will be used to identify valid days and derive activity intensities. |
| child sleep | pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8) | Child average nightly sleep duration and quality will be calculated from data obtained using a waterproof accelerometer. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| parenting practices | pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8) | Parent-reported measure of different dimensions of parenting (e.g., harsh parenting, permissive parenting). Likert scale values range from 1 to 7, with higher values indicating greater dysfunctional parenting. |
| ethnic-racial socialization practices | pre (weeks 0-2) and post intervention (weeks 6-8) | Parent-reported measure of attitudes about and use of various ethnic-racial socialization practices. Likert scale values range from 1 to 5, with higher values indicating more positive ethnic-racial socialization attitudes and practices. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed