Parenting Program for Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioral Issues: A Randomized Control Trial

Helpful Parenting Program (HPP) for Psychological Functioning of Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioral Issues: A Randomized Control Trial

The main objectives of the study are:

1. To find out the effectiveness of Helpful Parenting Program (HPP) for psychological functioning of children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.
2. To decrease psychological distress among children's parent having behavioral and emotional issues.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Parent-Child Relations
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Helpful Parenting Program Intervention

Detailed Description

In this Helpful Parenting Program, N=200 participants would be enrolled for eligibility assessment from different schools in Faisalabad. 70 participants after the eligibility assessment and screening would be allocated to experimental and waitlist treatment condition. Participants would be allocated through random assignment using block randomization. In experimental group, the parents of children with emotional & behavioral issues will be included and 8 to 10 sessions of helpful parenting program would be provided to the parents. Each of the group will be comprised of n=35.

Eligibility Criteria:

Only parents with dysfunctional parenting practices, having children with emotional and behavioral issues would be a part of the study. Second, Only parents would be included in the study who score above 18 on SDQ-4. Only parents having children aged 5 to 12 years would be included in the study. Parents with major psychological disorders would be excluded from the study. The parent served as single parent would be excluded from the study.The participants would be taken from any socioeconomic status.

Interventions:

8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional & behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting.

Expected Outcomes:

This study will help to provide valuable information to mental health professionals to understand and develop guidelines for parents of children with emotional & behavioral issues. Further, this program would decrease psychological distress & couple's problematic conflicts among parents and improve the psychological functioning of parents. Moreover, this program will improve parental competence and make them independent problem solvers.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 200
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Pakistan
  • Punjab
    • Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, 38000
      • Qasir Abbas

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Only parents with dysfunctional parenting practices, having children with emotional and behavioral issues would be a part of the study. Second, Only parents would be included in the study who score above 18 on SDQ-4. Only parents having children aged 5 to 12 years would be included in the study. The participants would be taken from any socioeconomic status.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parents with major psychological disorders would be excluded from the study. The parent served as single parent would be excluded from the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment Group; Experimental Group: Participants in experimental group would receive 8-10 sessions of intervention based helpful parenting program	Behavioral: Helpful Parenting Program Intervention; 8-10 sessions with 60 minutes duration once in a week will be conducted with the parents in group and one-on-one setting. Helpful parenting program would be based on social learning theory, behavior modification and couple counseling. The program will be used as an intervention strategy with parents to built insight about their child's emotional & behavioral issues. Different strategies to teach parenting skills will also be used as an intervention. Further more, this program will target parents' psychological distress and couples' problematic conflicts regarding parenting
No Intervention: Control Group; Control Group: Participants in the control group will not receive the said intervention of helpful parenting program.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Strength and difficulty questionnaire	This scale will assess the parents strength and difficulty dealing the child	4 months
Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale	This scale will assess the level of depression, anxiety and stress among the parents of emotionally disturbed child	4 months
Dyadic Adjustment Scale	This scale will assess the parents level of adjustment	4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parenting Scale	This scale will assess the level of parenting	4 months
Parents sense of competence scale	This scale will assess the sense of competence	4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Government College University Faisalabad
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Qasir Abbas, PHD, Government College University Faisalabad

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 15, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): April 10, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 19, 2023
• First Posted (Estimated): December 21, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 21, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 19, 2023
• Last Verified: December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: HPP, Parenting, Emotional & behavioral issues
• Other Study ID Numbers: Govt.CUF

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