NCT05796466 Improving Preschoolers' Mental Health: A RCT Assessing Two Parenting Programs
| NCT ID | NCT05796466 |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | — |
| Sponsor | Mireille Joussemet |
| Condition | Mental Health Issue |
| Study Type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Enrollment | 320 participants |
| Start Date | 2023-04-01 |
| Primary Completion | 2029-06-15 |
Trial Parameters
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Brief Summary
The goal of this randomized control trial (RCT) is to assess the superiority of the How-to Parenting Program in improving autonomy support and preschoolers' mental health (i.e., decreases externalizing problems) among vulnerable families. The main question it aims to answer is: Can teaching concrete parenting skills that target empirically-based parenting dimensions (via the How-to Parenting Program) have an added value for improving parental autonomy support and child mental health, compared to a parenting program that does not focus on teaching parenting skills (Nobody's Perfect program \[NP\])? Early childhood centers providing services to parents of 3-4 years olds will be randomly assigned to one of two 6-week programs. Parents will fill out questionnaires before (T1) and after (T2) programs delivery as well as at 6-month (T3) and 1-year follow-ups (T4). They and their child will also engage in filmed parent-child interactions at T1 and T3 during predetermined activities, to obtain observational measures of parenting and child socioemotional competences. Researchers will compare the How-to and NP conditions to see if there was an accentuated increase in parental autonomy support and child mental health in the How-to condition. As secondary analyses, researchers will compare the How-to and NP conditions on parenting quality, child socioemotional competences, and parental cognitions as well as explore the conditions in which NP could be equal (or superior) to the How-to Parenting Program.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: \- Parents need to have at least one child aged between between 36 and 59 months at pre-intervention. Exclusion Criteria: * Parents will be excluded if they have previously attended a How-to Parenting Program * Parents who are unable to communicate in French will be excluded. Recruitment procedure: \- To target more more vulnerable families, parents will primarily be recruited in ECCs located in low- or middle-income neighbourhoods of the greater Montreal (Canada) according to the Montreal's 2018 Poverty Map of Families with Children.