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Purposeful Parenting: Enhanced Anticipatory Guidance for the First Year of Life
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Purposeful Parenting for Parenting. Completed, enrolled 290 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
Pediatricians' provision of parenting-focused anticipatory guidance often does not meet parents' needs; the few studies that have investigated primary-care based strategies to promote positive parenting rely on time-intensive, high-cost interventions, thereby limiting their generalizability. Therefore, the Purposeful Parenting was developed as a universal program of enhanced anticipatory guidance. At each well-child visit in the first year of a child's life, Purposeful Parenting provides parents with: 1) scripted anticipatory guidance and handouts focused on the child's emerging social-emotional and linguistic (SEL) skills, brain development and the importance of responsive parenting; and 2) a "reminder" item (e.g., a "Smile at Me" onesie) that allows for in-office role modeling and promotes practicing of an age-specific, nurturing parent-child interaction. If an in-office intervention is missed (e.g. parent cancels visit, interventionist out sick) the intervention will be delivered by telephone if possible by the site-based clinical interventionists and the "reminder" items will be mailed.
Study Details
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Interventions
Purposeful Parenting reinforces responsive interactions that help promote emerging developmental skills. This information is presented over the course of a child's first 12 months, such that core lessons are the same but specific skills are designed to be developmentally appropriate. This repetitiveness, along with the provision of age-appropriate behavioral guidance, will allow parents to successfully engage in responsive interactions with their children.