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Longitudinal Follow-up of Brief Parenting Interventions to Reduce Risk of Child Physical Maltreatment in a Selected Population
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Triple P-Level 2, Play Nicely, and 1 other intervention for Parenting and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 1,133 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Universal and broad selective parenting education programs that improve parenting skills, increase parents' understanding of child development, and teach positive child discipline strategies can prevent use of corporal punishment and child physical maltreatment. The proposed research addresses this critical need by investigating brief, relatively low-resource intensive primary prevention parenting programs that can be disseminated widely. By reducing cumulative adverse childhood experiences, which include child physical maltreatment, these interventions are expected to reduce long-term health disparities and risks for major public health problems, such as violence, smoking, obesity, drug abuse, risky sexual behavior, mental health disorders, and heart disease, among others
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Triple P-Level 2 (TPL2) consists of a brief, 30 minute, one-on-one consultation with a parenting professional followed by a phone call from that professional roughly 2 weeks later. TPL2 will be delivered on an individual level and consist of a brief, 20 to 40 minute, one-on-one parenting consultation. Parents will receive a positive parenting booklet. They also will be offered parenting tip sheets that are designed to provide basic information on the prevention and management of common behavioral, emotional and developmental problems. All materials are: 1) written in simple English; 2) understandable at a sixth grade reading level; 3) gender-sensitive; and 4) avoid technical and colloquial expression that may pose barriers from non-English speaking backgrounds. Participants will receive a follow-up phone call to check on the family's progress and offer any additional needed advice.
Play Nicely is a brief, multimedia, computer-based educational program. The online program uses narrated modules to enhance parenting skills and promote effective parental responses to normal aggressive behavior in young children. The parent educational module presents a hypothetical situation of one child harming another. As the module progresses the viewer is given 20 different discipline options from which to choose. Participants are encouraged to click on all the options they wish to learn more about. The different options provide ways to respond to the situation and explain that there are discipline choices that are considered "Great options," "Good options after others have been tried," or "There are better options." The length of the program is dependent on how many of the 20 discipline options the participant chooses to learn about, but generally it can be finished in 20-40 minutes.
Our "usual care" control group participants receive a resource and referral list for local social services