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NCT Number: NCT05567276

Responding to Children and Adolescents With Tyrannical Behaviour

This was a randomized controlled trial that compared the NVR intervention group with a TAU group during a four-months period in reducing stress in parents of children aged 6-20 years and displaying severe tyrannical behaviour (STB).

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Key information

Conditions

Oppositional Defiant Disorder Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Mental Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Age range

6 year–20 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Uhmontpellier

Montpellier, 34295, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • being the parent of a child aged 6 - 20 years who endorses the DSM-5 criteria of IODD. In fact, ODD is considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition for tyranny behavior
  • two or more positive answers to the custom quetions routinely used to identify STB in children/adolescents at the University Hospital of Montpellier), related to a 12 month period :
  • Are you afraid of your child?
  • Is your child physically or psychologically violent toward you?
  • Do you think that your child is the decision maker in the family?
  • Do you feel ashamed by your situation at home?
  • being able to attend half of the sessions.

Exclusion criteria

  • predicted absence from at least half of the sessions
  • subject deprived of liberty
  • subject under guardianship or curatorship.

Treatment and study plan

Non-Violent Resistance parental training

Behavioral

Non-Violent Resistance parental training

Primary outcomes

  1. Parenting Stress Index/Short Form(PSI-SF)

    Time frame: 4 months from baseline

    Parenting Stress Index/Short Form(PSI-SF) : PSI-SF has 36 items based on a five-point Likert scale where each value corresponds to a specific statement (1 = completely disagree; 5 = completely agree). The subscale scores range from 12 to 60, and the Total Stress score ranges from 36 to 180. The higher the score, the greater the level of parental stress

Secondary outcomes

  1. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

    Time frame: 4 months from baseline

    Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) : HADS is a 14-item measure designed to assess anxiety and depression symptoms in adults. Items are rated on a 4-point severity scale. The HADS produces a scale for anxiety (HADS-A) and for depression (HADS-D). To screen for parental anxiety and depressive symptoms, the following interpretation can be proposed for each of the scores: scores of 7 or less are considered no symptomatology; scores between 8 and 10 are considered doubtful symptomatology; scores of 11 and more are considered definite symptomatology."

  2. Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)

    Time frame: 4 months from baseline

    Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) : CBCL has 115-item and uses T-scores which allows a wide-ranging evaluation of the child's behavioural profile.

    Raw scores are calculated and used to generate T-scores for eight clinical subscales, two composite scales, one total scale, and four competence scales.

    T-scores ≥70 are in the clinical range for the clinical subscales, T-scores ≥64 are in the clinical range for the composite scales and total scale, and T-scores ≤30 are in the clinical range for the competence scales. Emotional dysregulation was defined as an aggregate T-score of ≥210 on the Attention Problems, Aggressive Behavior, and Anxious/Depressed scales

  3. Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

    Time frame: 4 months from baseline

    Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) : The SDQ consists of 5 subscales, each containing 5 items. The scales measure emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity-inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behaviours.

    Each psychological attribute is scored on a 0-10 scale. A score of 0 is the best outcome concerning the emotional, conduct, hyperactivity, and peer relationship fields (note that these four attributes add up to a total difficulties/overall stress score scored on a 0-40 scale). This scoring reverses for pro-social/score for kind and helpful behaviour, where a score of 10 shows the least amount of difficulty

  4. Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Present/Lifetime version

    Time frame: at baseline

    Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Present/Lifetime

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Montpellier

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Non-Violent Resistance Parental Training Versus Treatment as Usual for Children and Adolescents With Severe Tyrannical Behaviour: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Acronym: REACT

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Oct 5, 2022
Registry last updated
Oct 5, 2022

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