Parent Engagement Package: Initial Testing of Strategies to Increase Participation in Parenting Interventions

Participation in Preventive Parenting Interventions

This study evaluated the effectiveness of strategies for engaging parents into parenting programs. Engagement strategies included a booklet showing testimonial quotes and photos from prior participants, a recommendation to attend for the child's teacher, and a motivational call from the parenting program provider. It was hypothesized that the combination of engagement strategies would increase attendance at a parenting intervention compared to receiving only a promotional brochure and research interview.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Patient Compliance
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Promotional Brochure; Other: Family Testimonial Flyer; Other: Teacher Endorsement; Other: Provider Engagement Call

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 122
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Arizona
    • Tempe, Arizona, United States, 85287-6005
      • Arizona State University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Is the biological or adoptive mother of a child in kindergarten or 3rd grade at the participating school (i.e., "target child");
• The target child lived with the mother at least half of the time;
• The mother spoke English or Spanish;

Exclusion Criteria:

• The target child changed schools;
• The mother reported the target child would be changing schools during the school year;
• The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Promotional Brochure; Participants in this condition received one of the strategies in the Parent Engagement Package: a promotional brochure with information about the parenting intervention being offered at their child's school, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program. This information included the location of meetings, free childcare, topics covered, choice of English or Spanish groups, meeting day and time, and an enrollment form. Parents who returned the enrollment form received a confirmation letter prior to the first parenting program session.	Other: Promotional Brochure; Promotional brochure with information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.
Experimental: Parent Engagement Package; Participants in this condition received all engagement strategies in the Parent Engagement Package, which included: 1) the promotional brochure; 2) family testimonial flyer that included photos and quotes from prior participants; 3) teacher endorsement of the Triple P program; 4) provider engagement call to motivate parents to attend; and 5) phone reminders prior to each Triple P session.	Other: Promotional Brochure; Promotional brochure with information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.; Other: Family Testimonial Flyer; Flyer that included quotes and photos from parents who had previously participated in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and/or their children who participated in the free childcare.; Other: Teacher Endorsement; Brief conversation between the parent and their child's teacher in which the teacher told the parent about the benefits of participating in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and recommended the parent attend.; Other: Provider Engagement Call; This was a manualized, 20-minute call from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program provider to a parent in which the provider elicited the parent's child-focused goals and showed how the parent's goals could be addressed by Triple P. The provider also helped the parent problem solve barriers to attendance and develop an action plan to handle common barriers (e.g., scheduling conflicts) as well as set session reminders.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parenting Intervention Attendance	Number of sessions a caregiver from a student's family attended the parenting intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program	Attendance was recorded by Triple P providers at each session, once per week for 8 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parenting Intervention Enrollment	Whether or not a family enrolled in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program by completing an enrollment form or answering 'yes' to an enrollment question during the provider engagement call or attention-control research interview	from the date engagement strategies commenced until the date the Triple P Positive Parenting Program began, up to 7 weeks
Parenting Intervention Homework Completion	Caregiver report of completion of Triple P Positive Parenting Program assignments between sessions	collected once per week for 7 weeks, at the beginning of each Triple P Positive Parenting Program sessions 2 through 8
Parenting Intervention Session Involvement	Provider reports of the extent to which a caregiver actively participated in each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session attended	collected once per week for 8 weeks, after each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session
Child Behavior Problems	Teacher report of child behavior in the classroom	collected 1 week before Triple P session 1 and at Triple P post-test, which was 9 weeks after the first behavior reports were collected

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Arizona State University
• Collaborators: J.B. Sutton Elementary School
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Emily B Winslow, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Winslow EB, Poloskov E, Begay R, Tein JY, Sandler I, Wolchik S. A randomized trial of methods to engage Mexican American parents into a school-based parenting intervention. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2016 Dec;84(12):1094-1107. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000140. Epub 2016 Sep 5.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2010
• Study Completion (Actual): May 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 18, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): May 10, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 10, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 0812003515

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No