- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05264415
Intergenerational Transmission of Traumatic Stress
Interrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Traumatic Stress: Identifying Parental Targets for Intervention by Looking Under the Skin
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Detailed Description
This research study consists of a randomized controlled trial of 60 families of preschool-aged children in which a parent/caregiver has their own history of childhood interpersonal trauma or loss.
Parent/caregiver participants and their preschool-aged child will participate in two phases of assessment (baseline/Time 1 and follow-up/Time 2). Each phase of assessment will include parent/caregiver participant completion of self-report questionnaire measures, a parent-child interaction task (which will be video-recorded for later behavioral coding) and a parent EEG assessment. After the Time 1 (T1) assessments, participants will be randomized to either the FOCUS-Early Childhood Program group (n = 30; experimental group) or the parent education curriculum website group (n = 30; active comparator group).
The T2 assessment phase will begin at 3-months post-baseline. The FOCUS-EC Program is an 8-week program, so families should have completed the program by 3 months post-baseline. In the event that a family that was randomized to the FOCUS-EC Program group has not completed the program by the 3-month mark, the T2 assessment will be initiated once the program has been completed (up to 6 months post-baseline).
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Parent/caregiver (must be legal guardian) of a 3- to 6-year-old child
- Child must cohabitate with the parent/caregiver
- Parent/caregiver participant must have experienced some form of interpersonal trauma during their own childhood (e.g., abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic violence)
- Parent/caregiver must be English-speaking
- Parent/caregiver must have access to internet and Webcam
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not meet inclusion criteria
- Parent/legal guardian does not want the child to participate in the study
- Significant neurological disorder (included in pre-screening protocol)
- Active psychosis/mania (as assessed by staff)
- Significant child developmental delays (as assessed by staff)
Families excluded from the study will be provided with a list of online and/or community resources.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Families Over-Coming Under Stress-Early Childhood Program (FOCUS-EC)
FOCUS-EC is a trauma-informed, family-level, skill building program that provides developmental guidance, parent education, and key resilience skills that promote positive individual and family coping (including emotional regulation, problem solving, goal setting, communication, and management of trauma & loss reminders), which foster parent-child and family cohesion.
It is delivered in approximately 8 weekly sessions (including approximately six 60-minute sessions with parent/caregivers only, and two 30-60 minute sessions with children and parent/caregivers together).
Each session is structured with a check-in, review of the previous week's "home activity," new skills-based activity and discussion, selection of a new "home activity," and a closing check-out.
FOCUS-EC promotes parenting skills and more cohesive family relationships in two key phases: 1) creating a family timeline and 2) enhancing parent-child interactions.
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Trauma-informed, family-centered, skill-building preventive intervention for families with preschool-aged children.
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Active Comparator: Parenting Education Website
The Parenting Education Website includes information and high-quality parenting resources covering topics such as typical child development, common child reactions to family stress and transitions, play, positive parenting strategies, and the importance of self-care.
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A website providing parenting education resources in four primary domains relevant for families with preschool-aged children (parenting, child development, transitions, and self-care).
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in observed parenting behaviors during standardized parent-child interaction tasks
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Coded based on previously established parent-child behavioral coding systems (Deater-Deckard, 2000; Deater-Deckard, Pylas, & Petrill, 1997; Dix et al., 2004; Murphy, Boyd-Soissan, et al., 2017), including codes for positive parenting behaviors (e.g., praise, sensitivity, positive affect expressions), negative parenting behaviors (e.g., criticism, intrusiveness, harshness, negative affect expressions), and responses to children's negative emotion expressions (e.g., emotion coaching, validation, suppression, minimization).
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Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in self-reported parenting behaviors as measured by the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale (MAPS)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale (MAPS) is a self-report questionnaire of parenting behaviors. This study will administer the 30 items corresponding to subscales that represent the following aspects of parenting behavior:
The scale is scored such that higher scores indicate a higher degree of that type of parenting (e.g., higher scores on the positive reinforcement subscale indicate greater use of positive reinforcement). Each subscale: Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 5 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as measured by the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-V (PCL-5)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-V (PCL-5) is a well-established, 20-item questionnaire of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Higher scores indicate higher levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 80 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire that assesses emotion regulation strategies of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, with higher scores indicating greater use of those strategies. Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 7 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Parental Feelings Inventory (PFI)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Parental Feelings Inventory (PFI) is a 31-item self-report questionnaire that assesses parents' experience of specific emotions in the parenting context (Bradley et al., 2013). Higher scores represent greater experience of each type of emotion in the parenting role within the past month. Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 7 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Parental Emotion Regulation Inventory-2 (PERI-2)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Parental Emotion Regulation Inventory-2 (PERI-2) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses coping and emotion regulation strategies used within the parenting context (Lorber et al., 2017). The scale includes 23 items corresponding to subscales that represent the following aspects of emotion regulation:
The scale is scored such that higher scores indicate a higher degree of that type of strategy (e.g., higher scores on the reappraisal subscale indicate greater use of reappraisal). Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 7 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES) is an 82-item self-report questionnaire that assesses parents' responses to children's displays of negative emotions (e.g., expressive encouragement, problem solving, punishment, minimization). Higher scores reflect higher use of that type of response (e.g., higher score on expressive encouragement subscale indicates higher use of expressive encouragement responses). Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 7 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) is a well-established, 8-item scale of depression symptoms, with higher total scores indicating higher levels of depression symptoms. Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 24 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Questionnaire (GAD-7)
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Questionnaire (GAD-7) is a well-established, 7-item scale of anxiety symptoms, with higher total scores indicating higher levels of anxiety symptoms. Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 21 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Parenting Stress Index-Short Form 4
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form 4 (PSI-SF) is a 36-item self-report questionnaire of three dimensions of parenting stress (parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction, and difficult child). Higher scores indicate higher levels of parenting stress. Subscales: Minimum possible score: 12 Maximum possible score: 60 Total Score: Minimum possible score: 36 Maximum possible score: 180 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) is a 36-item parent/caregiver-report questionnaire measure of children's behavior problems that obtains information about the frequency of problem behaviors (Intensity subscale; higher scores indicate greater intensity) and whether or not the behavior is problematic for the parent (Problem subscale; higher scores indicate greater problem). Behavior intensity: Minimum possible score: 36 Maximum possible score: 252 Problem behavior: Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 36 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Preschool Feelings Checklist
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Preschool Feelings Checklist is a 16-item parent/caregiver-report questionnaire measure of children's depressive symptoms. Higher scores indicate higher depression symptoms. Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 16 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Spence Child Anxiety Scale - Preschool Version
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Spence Child Anxiety Scale - Preschool Version is a 34-item parent/caregiver-report questionnaire measure of children's anxiety symptoms. Higher scores indicate higher anxiety symptoms. Minimum possible score: 0 Maximum possible score: 112 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in electroencephalography (EEG)-measured cortical alpha asymmetry
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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EEG will be used to examine parent/caregiver alpha asymmetry in the frontal and parietal cortices during several tasks: - Resting baseline tasks:
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Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in electroencephalography (EEG)-measured cortical functional connectivity
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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EEG will be used to examine parent/caregiver functional connectivity between the frontal and parietal cortices during several tasks: - Resting baseline tasks:
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Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire is a self-report questionnaire measure of parental reflective functioning. The questionnaire consists of 18 items corresponding to subscales that represent the following aspects of reflective functioning:
The scale is scored such that higher scores indicate a higher degree of that type of reflective functioning (e.g., higher scores on the Certainty about Mental States subscale indicate greater certainty about infant mental states). Minimum possible score: 1 Maximum possible score: 7 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Change in Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire
Time Frame: Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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The Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire is a 24-item self-report questionnaire measure of alexithymia, with higher scores indicating higher levels of alexithymia. Minimum possible score: 24 Maximum possible score: 168 |
Time 1 (baseline assessment) and Time 2 (3-months post-baseline)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Nastassia Hajal, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
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Other Study ID Numbers
- KHD097277A
Drug and device information, study documents
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