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Optimizing Treatment for Depressed Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioural Problems (OPTED)

4 de agosto de 2026 atualizado por: Brendan Andrade, University of Toronto

Optimizing Treatment for Depressed Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioural Problems (OPTED): A Randomized and Controlled Trial

Standard Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) is often less effective for parents experiencing depression. As such, the Addressing Depression and Positive Parenting Techniques (ADAPT) intervention is a novel BPT tailored to address the unique emotional and cognitive needs of depressed parents to improve treatment outcomes.

The objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of ADAPT in reducing child emotional and behavioral difficulties compared to the gold-standard Incredible Years Parenting Program (IYPP).

This study is a 4-year, individually-randomized group treatment (IRGT), parallel-group trial. We aim to recruit 180 caregivers and their children (aged 6-11 years) seeking treatment for their child's emotional and behavioral difficulties from multiple mental health centres across Toronto, including but not limited to the University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Women's College Hospital (WCH).

Participants will be asked to complete research measures:

  • before randomization
  • post-treatment
  • 6 months after the end of treatment

Participants will be randomized to either the experimental ADAPT intervention - A 10-session virtual program (1 individual, 9 group) focused on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and cognitive restructuring, or the control intervention: Incredible Years Parent Program (IYPP) - A 12-session gold-standard BPT delivered virtually.

Visão geral do estudo

Status

Recrutamento

Condições

Intervenção / Tratamento

Tipo de estudo

Intervencional

Inscrição (Estimado)

180

Estágio

  • Não aplicável

Contactos e Locais

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Contato de estudo

Locais de estudo

  • Canadá
    • Ontario
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canadá
        • Recrutamento
        • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
        • Contato:

Critérios de participação

Os pesquisadores procuram pessoas que se encaixem em uma determinada descrição, chamada de critérios de elegibilidade. Alguns exemplos desses critérios são a condição geral de saúde de uma pessoa ou tratamentos anteriores.

Critérios de elegibilidade

Idades elegíveis para estudo

  • Adulto
  • Adulto mais velho

Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis

Não

Descrição

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. 18 years of age or above
  2. has a child aged 6-11 years with clinically elevated emotional and behavioural disorders (Abnormal Range, 93rd percentile) on the Total Difficulties Scale of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
  3. parent shows clinical elevations for mild-moderate depression on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) (>4 and <15)
  4. capacity to tolerate a virtual group context assessed by clinical interview

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Parent shows active suicidal ideation, substance use disorder, or psychosis
  2. they cannot communicate in English
  3. child previously diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability

Plano de estudo

Esta seção fornece detalhes do plano de estudo, incluindo como o estudo é projetado e o que o estudo está medindo.

Como o estudo é projetado?

Detalhes do projeto

  • Finalidade Principal: Tratamento
  • Alocação: Randomizado
  • Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição Paralela
  • Mascaramento: Dobro

Armas e Intervenções

Grupo de Participantes / Braço
Intervenção / Tratamento
Experimental: ADAPT Treatment
Participants in the experimental arm will receive the novel Addressing Depression and Positiving Parenting Techniques (ADAPT) treatment. ADAPT is a targeted treatment adapted by the Co-PI based on the Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions program. The treatment has modules that help parents build emotion regulation skills, distress tolerance skills, and helpful ways of thinking about their parenting. The program also contains components of standard behavioural parent training, including strategies to build family structure, routines, and predictable parenting responses to children's behavioral challenges. Additionally, ADAPT includes elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), an effective intervention for the treatment of adults and youth with dysregulated emotion and behavior.
Comportamental: ADAPT Treatment
ADAPT is a 10-session virtual caregiver program (one individual engagement session and nine group sessions) that was developed with clinician and parent input. The initial engagement session is an individual meeting between the group facilitator and parent to build rapport and learn about the parent's unique challenges and parenting needs. Based on a motivational interviewing framework, this session is designed to gather information, discuss readiness for treatment and goals. The questions and tools used in this session help to build a collaborative understanding of unique child and parent needs that may be addressed through ADAPT and leave the parent with the hope that ADAPT can be helpful. The 9 virtual group treatment sessions that follow include modules to help parents understand the multiple potential contributions to their child's emotional/behavioral challenges, build their own emotion regulation skills, distress tolerance skills, and more helpful ways of thinking.
Comparador Ativo: Incredible Years Parenting Program (IYPP)
Participants randomized to the control arm will receive the Incredible Years Parenting Program (IYPP). IYPP is a best-practice and widely used treatment for parents of children with EBD.
Comportamental: Incredible Years Parenting Program (IYPP)
The 12-session manualized treatment is considered a gold-standard treatment because it has shown efficacy in large-scale randomized and controlled trials and meta-analyses. Parents are helped to shift their children's emotional and behavioral difficulties through improved parental skills and competencies with behaviour management, and a parental problem-solving approach. IYPP will be delivered virtually.

O que o estudo está medindo?

Medidas de resultados primários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Changes in child emotional and behavioral difficulties
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Child emotional and behavioural difficulties are assessed using the Behaviour and Feelings Survey (BFS).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up

Medidas de resultados secundários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Changes in parental depression
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parental depression is assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in parental quality of life
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Quality of life is assessed using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment 2.0 (WHODAS).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in broad parenting practices
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parenting practices are assessed using the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting (MAPS).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in parental stress
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parental stress is assessed using the self-reported scores on items of the Stress subscale of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up

Outras medidas de resultado

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Changes in parental cognition
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parent cognition is assessed using the Parent Cognition Scale (PCS). The PCS will be examined as a predictor of initial symptom severity and potential treatment mechanism.
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in parent emotion regulation
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parent emotion regulaiton is assessed using the Affect Regulation Checklist (ARC). The PCS will be examined as a predictor of initial symptom severity and potential treatment mechanism.
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in real-time parent-reported child emotional and behavioral difficulties
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization)
Real-time parent-reported child emotional and behavioral difficulties will be assessed via ecological momentary assessment (EMA) at pre- and post-treatment, capturing momentary ratings of child symptoms.
Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization)
Changes in the implementation of parenting skills
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization).
Implementation of parenting skills is assessed using the Parenting Skill Use Diary (PSUD).
Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization).
Changes in child depressive symptoms
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization).
Child depressive symptoms will be assessed using the child-reported Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ).
Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization).
Changes in child irritability
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Child irritability will be assessed using the parent-reported Affective Reactivity Index (ARI).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in child perceptions of parenting behaviour
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization)
Child perceptions of parenting behaviour will be assessed using the Children's Report of Parenting Behavior Inventory (CRPBI).
Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization)
Changes in parental competence need satisfaction and frustration
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parental competence need satisfaction and frustration will be assessed using the relevant subscales of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in child callous-unemotional traits
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12 weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Child callous-unemotional traits will be assessed using the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12 weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Changes in child self-reported emotion-regulation
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12 weeks post-randomization)
Child self-reported emotion-regulation will be assessed using the Children's Emotion Management Scales (CEMS).
Baseline (pre-randomization) and post-treatment (12 weeks post-randomization)
Changes in parental self-efficacy
Prazo: Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up
Parental self-efficacy is assessed using the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC).
Baseline (pre-randomization), post-treatment (12-weeks post-randomization), and 6-month follow-up

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Patrocinador

University of Toronto

Colaboradores

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Women's College Hospital

Datas de registro do estudo

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Datas Principais do Estudo

Início do estudo (Estimado)

1 de agosto de 2026

Conclusão Primária (Estimado)

1 de agosto de 2030

Conclusão do estudo (Estimado)

1 de agosto de 2030

Datas de inscrição no estudo

Enviado pela primeira vez

8 de junho de 2026

Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ

4 de agosto de 2026

Primeira postagem (Real)

6 de agosto de 2026

Atualizações de registro de estudo

Última Atualização Postada (Real)

6 de agosto de 2026

Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade

4 de agosto de 2026

Última verificação

1 de agosto de 2026

Mais Informações

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Outros números de identificação do estudo

  • 50526 (SMART IRB)

Plano para dados de participantes individuais (IPD)

Planeja compartilhar dados de participantes individuais (IPD)?

SIM

Descrição do plano IPD

De-identified study data may be shared with other reseachers upon request at the disrection of the PI.

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