Promoting Playfulness

Promoting Playfulness: Tier 1 Strength-based Parent Education Program to Promote Child and Family Resilience

Health inequalities, social isolation, and family adversity impact a child's development. Play is the context for child development in all areas. A parent's ability to support children at play while being playful contributes to their psychological adjustment. The proposed tier 1, strengths-based educational program for parents of children aged 2 to 5 years with and without disabilities combines elements of a play-based approach and tips on effective parenting to support children's development by equipping parents with knowledge and empowering them to become change agents in their children's lives.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Developmental Delay (Disorder)
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Parent Education - Promoting Playfulness

Detailed Description

Parents will be recruited through a convenience sampling method to either an intervention group delivered online or a control waitlist group. Parents will be asked to complete a set of questionnaires online to assess the proposed programs effectiveness. Data analysis will explore between and within group differences in parental sense of competency, parental stress, child's behavior, and ability to support child's play. Qualitative data will be collected through online open-ended questions and sessions' transcript which will be analyzed to identify benefits. The project will produce tangible outcomes that will contribute to fostering the resilience of families with young children.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 40
• Phase: Early Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Sarah E Fabrizi, PhD OTR/L; Phone Number: 1-239-590-1854; Email: sfabrizi@fgcu.edu
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Sherry Alexander; Phone Number: (239) 590-7522; Email: sralexander@fgcu.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Fort Myers, Florida, United States, 33908
      • Recruiting
      • Little Eagles Learning Center
      • Contact: Chantelle Yamrick; Phone Number: 2395907749; Email: cyamrick@fgcu.edu
      • Contact: Sarah Fabrizi; Phone Number: 239-822-2292; Email: sfabrizi@fgcu.edu
      • Contact: Sarah Fabrizi, PhD OTR/L

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent of a child aged 2 to 5 with no major disability (sensory, intellectual disability, neuromuscular disability).
• Can commit to participating in two online sessions;
• Has a device with a stable internet connection; and
• Communicates with high school-level English.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parents with children who have severe behavioral or sensory issues.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention - Parent Education; Parents will participate in 2, 45 minute virtual training sessions with information and question and anwsers. Each session will provide information about child development and parent advocacy and stressors. Play as the means for promoting healthy development will be emphasized.	Behavioral: Parent Education - Promoting Playfulness; Parents will participate in 2, 45 minute parent education sessions promoting playfulness through information about child development, parent stressors, and parent advocacy.
No Intervention: Waitlist control; Parents will have family life as usual with no education sessions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997)	Parental self-report assessing a child's behavior, 25 items rated on a scale ranging from 0, not true, to 2, certainly true.	At the completion of two weeks
Parental Sense of Competence (PSOC-R)	The Parenting Sense of Competence scale (PSOC-R) is a self-report measure that aims to assesses one's perceived efficacy and satisfaction with parenting. 16 items are scored on a scale of 1-6, 1 strongly disagree to 6 strongly agree.	At the completion of two weeks
Parent/Caregiver's View of Supporting Children's Play and Playfulness	11 items scored on a scale of 0, not agree, to 2, strongly agree, to describe parent's perception of a child's play and joint play.	At the completion of two weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parent post program open-ended questions	A set of three open-ended questions about parents experience and takeaways after participation in the program. Can the participants tell the investigators about participant experience with group training? Why do the participants think it worked well and what did not work well for the participants? How do the participants perceive play time with your child/ren now? Has anything changed after the program?	At the completion of two weeks
Parent pre program open-ended questions	A set of three questions regarding parent's expectations of the program. The investigators would like to learn more about your thoughts and experiences and will appreciate if the participants could answer the below questions What role does play have in children's development? Do the participants have a designated time that you play with your child? can the participants tell us about it. What do the participants expect to gain from these information sessions?	At enrollment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Florida Gulf Coast University
• Collaborators: Yeshiva University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sarah Fabrizi, PhD OTR/L, Associate professor; Principal Investigator: AMiya Waldman-Levi, PhD OTR/L, Yeshiva University - Professor

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 16, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 1, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 1, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): October 3, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 4, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 2, 2024
• Last Verified: October 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: play; parent education; playfulness
• Other Study ID Numbers: Protocol ID # 2024-85

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: No plans to share participant data.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No