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- Clinical Trial NCT05994027
ATTACH™ Online Platform: Helping Children Vulnerable to Early Adversity (ATTACH™)
Attachment & Child Health (ATTACH™) Online Platform: Helping Children Vulnerable to Early Adversity
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Methods: This effectiveness-implementation hybrid (EIH) Type II study is an innovative clinical trial comprised of a quasi-experimental design evaluation of the community-agency delivered ATTACH™ Online platform (with measurement pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, and three months postintervention) as well as an examination of implementation feasibility via Normalization Process Theory. Investigators will work with 100 parents and children (aged newborn to 36 months).
Objective 1: Employing innovative clinical trial quasi-experimental methods, the effectiveness of the ATTACH™ Online platform will be evaluated on: (1a) children's mental health and development (primary outcome), parent-child relationship quality, and parental reflective function (secondary outcomes) immediately and three months after the intervention, (1b) different patient populations (for whom the program works best/worst), and (1c) health professionals' adherence to the clinical intervention protocol via fidelity assessment. For these objectives, investigators will intervene with 100 new families, a sufficiently powered n to detect minimum d=.5 (from pilot data and accounting for attrition) for pre-intervention/post-intervention differences in children's mental health and development.
Objective 2: Using qualitative methods, the feasibility of implementation of the ATTACH™ Online platform will be evaluated via (2a) knowledge of users' (patients/parents, health care professionals, and administrators) perceptions and experiences of the ATTACH™ Online platform, (2b) ATTACH™ Online platform uptake, and (2c) ATTACH™ Online platform implementation benefits, facilitators, barriers, and challenges. For these objectives, investigators will interview knowledge users (patients/parents, health care professionals, and administrators (n≈60)) until data saturation using Normalization Process Theory.
Study Setting: include 10 Alberta agencies (technically 9, as one agency operates two shelters) serving culturally diverse clients (i.e., Caucasian as well as Black, Indigenous, People of Colour; BIPOC) and immigrants affected by family violence, depression, and low-income. The agencies including Brenda Strafford Centre, Catholic Social Services, Children, Families, and Community Services, Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter, Discovery House (Women's Shelter), Highbanks, Home Next Door*, Hull Social Services, Julietta's Place, La Salle Second Stage Shelter, Catholic Social Services and WINGS of Providence.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Martha Hart, PhD
- Phone Number: 403-441-4566
- Email: mhart@ucalgary.ca
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Nicole Letourneau, PhD RN
- Phone Number: 403-210-3833
- Email: nicole.letourneau@ucalgary.ca
Study Locations
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Alberta
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
- Recruiting
- University of Calgary
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Contact:
- Nicole Letourneau, PhD
- Phone Number: 4036305643
- Email: nicole.letourneau@ucalgary.ca
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Contact:
- Martha Hart, PhD
- Phone Number: 403-681-3592
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- parents with children between birth to 32 months of age (our age ceiling is 36 months, based on selection of age-platformropriate tools for assessing children's health and development );
- parents who agree to participate in the ATTACH™ Online platform program consisting of 10 weeks of additional, concurrent, one-hour per week parent training sessions;
- parents who agree to bring a co-parent for 2 of the 10 sessions (when possible).
Exclusion Criteria:
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Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Other: ATTACH™ Online Platform Parenting Program
A quasi-experimental design was selected to more closely approximate service delivery models in agencies that do not typically employ control groups. Given promising findings (from seven ATTACH™ pilot studies), a randomized controlled trial design, even employing wait-list controls, was deemed unacceptable and even unethical by patients, healthcare professionals, and health system administrators in engagement activities surrounding the preparation of this proposal. |
ATTACH Online Platform: Preserving and promoting optimal RF in parents who are experiencing adversities, enables parents to appropriately attribute affective states to their children and respond accurately to meet their children's needs, thus promoting sensitive/ responsive parent-child relationships.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Children's Mental Health and Development
Time Frame: Change from baseline ASQ-3 scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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The Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3rd Edition (ASQ - 3) is a series of parent-completed questionnaires to assess child development in 5 domains namely communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving, and personal-social skills.
There are 21 versions for different age groups 21 ranging from 1 to 66 months, with 6 questions in each domain asking if the child can or cannot do age-appropriate tasks.
Adding up items in each domain provides a total score for that domain.
Summing up the total scores for each domain yields the total score (out of 60).
Scores range from 0-60 and higher scores are indicative of healthier outcomes.
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Change from baseline ASQ-3 scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Parent-Child Relationship Quality
Time Frame: Change from baseline PCITS scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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The Parent Child Interaction Teaching Scale (PCITS) is an observational binary measure of interactions in parent-child teaching situations to measure parent-child interaction quality in infants 36 months or younger.
Considered as the gold standard, PCITS consists of 73 items categorized into 6 subscales including parental sensitivity to cues, responsiveness to distress, growth fostering, and cognitive growth fostering, and infant clarity of cues and responsiveness to parent.
Certified coders code the items either as yes or no; Yes responses are then summed to yield a total score for each sub-scale.
Final PCITS scores include total scores for each subscale, parent total, child total, and parent-child total scores, along with total parent contingency and child contingency scores.
The observation of teaching interaction typically takes 5 minutes.
Scale range from 0 - 73.
A higher score means a better outcome, i.e. higher quality of parent-child interaction.
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Change from baseline PCITS scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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Parental Reflective Function (RF)
Time Frame: Change from baseline PRFQ scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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The Parental Reflective Function Questionnaire (PRFQ) is an 18-item measure of parental RF, with subscales assessing: (a) Pre-mentalizing subscale, (b) Certainty in Mental States subscale, and (c) Interest and Curiosity subscale.
Scores from each sub-scale range from 1 to 7. Higher scores indicate higher levels of parental RF.
The PRFQ has good internal consistency (.7-.84) and takes 5 minutes to complete.
Pilot testing revealed the PRFQ detected intervention impacts and was acceptable to patients.
In our other work, investigators show that scores on the PRFQ associate significantly (p<.05) with the gold standard Parental Development Interview coded with Fonagy's 11-point scale.
Given the gold standard requires 1-2 hours per patient interview, followed by 1 hour to check automated transcriptions, and 3 hours of coding per interview (~6 hours total), the use of the PRFQ reduces patient burden, costs and is feasible to implement in agencies.
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Change from baseline PRFQ scores immediately after completion of intervention and at 3 months.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Nicole Letourneau, PhD RN, University of Calgary
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Anis L, Letourneau N, Benzies K, Ewashen C, Hart MJ. Effect of the Attachment and Child Health Parent Training Program on Parent-Child Interaction Quality and Child Development. Can J Nurs Res. 2020 Jun;52(2):157-168. doi: 10.1177/0844562119899004. Epub 2020 Jan 30.
- Ross KM, Cole S, Sanghera H, Anis L, Hart M, Letourneau N. The ATTACH program and immune cell gene expression profiles in mothers and children: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Brain Behav Immun Health. 2021 Oct 2;18:100358. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2021.100358. eCollection 2021 Dec.
- Letourneau N, Anis L, Novick J, Pohl C, Ntanda H, Hart M. Impacts of the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHTM) Parenting Program on Mothers and Their Children at Risk of Maltreatment: Phase 2 Results. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 9;20(4):3078. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20043078.
- Anis L, Letourneau N, Ross KM, Hart M, Graham I, Lalonde S, Varro S, Baldwin A, Soulsby A, Majnemer A, Donnelly C, Piotrowski C, Collier C, Lindeman C, Goldowitz D, Isaac D, Thomson D, Serre D, Citro E, Zimmermann G, Pliszka H, Mann J, Baumann J, Piekarski J, Dalton JA, Johnson-Green J, Wood K, Bruce M, Santana M, Mayer M, Gould M, Kobor M, Flowers M, Haywood M, Koerner M, Parker N, Muhajarine N, Fairie P, Chrishti R, Perry R, Merrill S, Pociuk S, StephanieTaylor, Cole S, Murphy T, Marchment T, Xavier V, Shajani Z, West Z. Study protocol for Attachment & Child Health (ATTACHTM) program: promoting vulnerable Children's health at scale. BMC Pediatr. 2022 Aug 19;22(1):491. doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03439-3.
- Letourneau N, Anis L, Ntanda H, Novick J, Steele M, Steele H, Hart M. Attachment & Child Health (ATTACH) pilot trials: Effect of parental reflective function intervention for families affected by toxic stress. Infant Ment Health J. 2020 Jul;41(4):445-462. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21833. Epub 2020 Jun 13.
- Anis L, Ross K, Ntanda H, Hart M, Letourneau N. Effect of Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHTM) Parenting Program on Parent-Infant Attachment, Parental Reflective Function, and Parental Depression. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 10;19(14):8425. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148425.
- Squires J, Bricker D, Potter L. Revision of a parent-completed development screening tool: Ages and Stages Questionnaires. J Pediatr Psychol. 1997 Jun;22(3):313-28. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/22.3.313.
- Luyten P, Mayes LC, Nijssens L, Fonagy P. The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation. PLoS One. 2017 May 4;12(5):e0176218. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176218. eCollection 2017.
- Letourneau NL, Tryphonopoulos PD, Novick J, Hart JM, Giesbrecht G, Oxford ML. Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Parent-Child Interaction Scales: Comparing American and Canadian Normative and High-Risk Samples. J Pediatr Nurs. 2018 May-Jun;40:47-57. doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2018.02.016. Epub 2018 Mar 22.
- Anis L, Benzies KM, Ewashen C, Hart MJ, Letourneau N. Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood. Front Public Health. 2021 May 14;9:582950. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.582950. eCollection 2021.
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Other Study ID Numbers
- REB20-0903-Online
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Drug and device information, study documents
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