Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood

Conditions

• Disruptive Behavior
• Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Childhood Onset
• Executive Function

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

4 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Chicago Parent Program — BEHAVIORAL
  Chicago Parent Program is an evidence-based group parenting intervention designed to reduce disruptive behavior in young children (2-8 years old).

Study Details

Deficits in executive functioning (EF) disproportionately impact children living in poverty and increase risk for psychopathology, particularly disruptive behavior disorders. This randomized clinical trial seeks to determine whether childhood EF, assessed across neural and behavioral units of analysis, is an experimental therapeutic target that can be directly modified through caregiver participation in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), if increases in EF predict reduced disruptive behavior trajectories in low-income children over a short-term follow-up period, and identify which CPP-driven parenting skill improvements are the most influential in modifying EF. This work will contribute new knowledge as to whether a cost-efficient parenting intervention, developed for and with low-income families raising young children in poverty, can modify EF, a neural behavioral mechanism implicated in risk for childhood disruptive behavior problems.

Key Dates

Start date

Nov 20, 2023

Status verified

Dec 2024

Primary completion

Feb 28, 2028

Completion

Mar 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

180 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: Chicago Parent Program
  Half of the dyads will be randomized to participant in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), an evidence-based parenting preventive intervention for urban poor parents with children between the ages of 2-8 with behavior problems. The Chicago Parent Program consists of 12 groups sessions (11 weekly, 1 booster session). The groups are co-facilitated by two certified group leaders. Parents learn positive parenting and effective child behavior management skills, strategies to support the child's attention, literacy, and social skills, and stress management and problem solving techniques. Skill building is accomplished through watching videos of real-life parents and children during parent-child interactions, group discussion, role-playing, and weekly homework assignments.
• No Intervention: Control Condition
  Half of the dyads will be randomized to the no intervention arm.

Primary Outcome Measure

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool Version (BRIEF-P) [ Time Frame: an average of 4 months ]

Central Contacts

• Jennifer Suor, PhD
  7733208989
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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