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Parenting Matters: Helping Parents With Young Children

NCT00133055 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 548

Last updated 2018-04-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Sleep and discipline problems are the most common problems for parents of young children (ages 2 to 5 years old) and are the two concerns with the strongest relations to future child behavior problems. The Parenting Matters program combines treatment booklets and telephone support to help parents deal with sleep or discipline problems. Parents with concerns and who are interested in the study are identified during a visit to their family physician. We, the investigators at the University of Western Ontario, expect that parents receiving treatment booklets, along with usual care by their family physician, will have greater reductions in their child's sleep or discipline problems, improved parenting practices, and greater reductions in child behaviour problems after receiving the Parenting Matters intervention, compared to parents receiving usual medical care.

Conditions

  • Sleep Problems
  • Behavior Problems
  • Child Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-help treatment booklet and telephone support

The Parenting Matters treatment program consisted of a self-help treatment booklet and two telephone coaching calls from a paraprofessional telephone coach at Weeks 2 and 5 of the program. Two booklets were used in the three trials; one addressed sleep issues and the second discipline problems.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care by a family physician

Parents in the usual care condition were told to continue with care from their family physician and/or any other treatment recommended by the physician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

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  • Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

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  • University of Western Ontario, Canada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Graham J Reid, PhD · Western University, Canada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-07-31
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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