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NCT Number: NCT03147547

Parent Engagement Package: Initial Testing of Strategies to Increase Participation in Parenting Interventions

This study evaluated the effectiveness of strategies for engaging parents into parenting programs. Engagement strategies included a booklet showing testimonial quotes and photos from prior participants, a recommendation to attend for the child's teacher, and a motivational call from the parenting program provider. It was hypothesized that the combination of engagement strategies would increase attendance at a parenting intervention compared to receiving only a promotional brochure and research interview.

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Key information

Conditions

Patient Compliance Behavior Health Behavior Patient Acceptance of Health Care Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona, 85287-6005, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Is the biological or adoptive mother of a child in kindergarten or 3rd grade at the participating school (i.e., "target child");
  • The target child lived with the mother at least half of the time;
  • The mother spoke English or Spanish;

Exclusion criteria

  • The target child changed schools;
  • The mother reported the target child would be changing schools during the school year;
  • The target child attended one of the participating schools during a previous cohort of the study.

Treatment and study plan

Promotional Brochure

Other

Promotional brochure with information about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and an enrollment form.

Family Testimonial Flyer

Other

Flyer that included quotes and photos from parents who had previously participated in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and/or their children who participated in the free childcare.

Teacher Endorsement

Other

Brief conversation between the parent and their child's teacher in which the teacher told the parent about the benefits of participating in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program and recommended the parent attend.

Provider Engagement Call

Other

This was a manualized, 20-minute call from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program provider to a parent in which the provider elicited the parent's child-focused goals and showed how the parent's goals could be addressed by Triple P. The provider also helped the parent problem solve barriers to attendance and develop an action plan to handle common barriers (e.g., scheduling conflicts) as well as set session reminders.

Primary outcomes

  1. Parenting Intervention Attendance

    Time frame: Attendance was recorded by Triple P providers at each session, once per week for 8 weeks

    Number of sessions a caregiver from a student's family attended the parenting intervention, the Triple P Positive Parenting Program

Secondary outcomes

  1. Parenting Intervention Enrollment

    Time frame: from the date engagement strategies commenced until the date the Triple P Positive Parenting Program began, up to 7 weeks

    Whether or not a family enrolled in the Triple P Positive Parenting Program by completing an enrollment form or answering 'yes' to an enrollment question during the provider engagement call or attention-control research interview

  2. Parenting Intervention Homework Completion

    Time frame: collected once per week for 7 weeks, at the beginning of each Triple P Positive Parenting Program sessions 2 through 8

    Caregiver report of completion of Triple P Positive Parenting Program assignments between sessions

  3. Parenting Intervention Session Involvement

    Time frame: collected once per week for 8 weeks, after each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session

    Provider reports of the extent to which a caregiver actively participated in each Triple P Positive Parenting Program session attended

  4. Child Behavior Problems

    Time frame: collected 1 week before Triple P session 1 and at Triple P post-test, which was 9 weeks after the first behavior reports were collected

    Teacher report of child behavior in the classroom

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Arizona State University

Other

Collaborators

  • J.B. Sutton Elementary School

Registry information

Official study title

Participation in Preventive Parenting Interventions

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2010
Study completion
2010
First posted
May 10, 2017
Registry last updated
May 10, 2017

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