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Promoting Optimal Parenting (Bright Start)

The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified March 2014 by Dimitri Christakis, Seattle Children's Hospital.
Recruitment status was:  Recruiting
Sponsor:
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01573793
First Posted: April 10, 2012
Last Update Posted: March 26, 2014
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Collaborator:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Dimitri Christakis, Seattle Children's Hospital
  Purpose
The purpose of this study is to determine if providing parenting education materials delivered in different ways during the first 30 months of a child's life will increase child-parent attachment and promote mother-child interaction, if certain types of strategies improve cognitive, language, and emotional development in infants and toddlers, and if our way of delivering these materials is cost-effective.

Condition Intervention
Cognitive Development Emotional Development Behavioral: Parenting Education Behavioral: Control Group - Safety Materials

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Official Title: Promoting Optimal Parenting

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Parenting
U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Dimitri Christakis, Seattle Children's Hospital:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Language ENvironment Analysis System (LENA) [ Time Frame: 6/18/30 months - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, Second Edition (ABAS-II) [ Time Frame: Month 12/24/36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire(BISQ) [ Time Frame: Month 12/24 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Preschool Version (BRIEF-P) [ Time Frame: Month 24/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory- Short Form (CDI) [ Time Frame: Month 24/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) [ Time Frame: Month 36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Devereux Early Childhood Assessment-Clinical Form (DECA-C) [ Time Frame: Month 24/36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Devereux Early Childhood Assessment- Infant/Toddler (DECA-I/T) [ Time Frame: Month 12 ]
  • Family Resource Scale (FRS) [ Time Frame: Baseline ]
  • MARLOWE-CROWNE [ Time Frame: Baseline ]
  • Maternal Emotional Styles Questionnaire (MESQ) [ Time Frame: Month 36 ]
  • Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) [ Time Frame: Baseline and Month 12/24/36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Preschool Language Scale-5 (PLS-5) [ Time Frame: Month 36 ]
  • Parenting Sense of Competence-Efficacy(PSOC) [ Time Frame: Baseline and Months 12/24/36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • Social competence subscale of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation(SCBE) [ Time Frame: Months 36/42 - tracking changes throughout study ]
  • (Strange Situation Procedure) SSP [ Time Frame: Month 15 ]
  • Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale (NCATS) [ Time Frame: Months 15/36 - tracking changes throughout study ]
Estimated Enrollment: 500
Study Start Date: April 2012
Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2016
Estimated Primary Completion Date: May 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Intervention
Will receive parenting educational materials hypothesized to enhance emotional and cognitive development
 Behavioral: Parenting Education
Will receive parenting educational materials hypothesized to enhance emotional and cognitive development
Sham Comparator: Control
Will receive safety and dental hygiene materials that have no bearing on emotional and cognitive development
 Behavioral: Control Group - Safety Materials
Will receive safety and dental hygiene materials that have no bearing on emotional and cognitive development

  Eligibility

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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 23 Years   (Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • English-speaking
  • 18-23 year-old first-time mother of a healthy newborn

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Anything other than above
  Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01573793


Contacts
Contact: Heather D Violette, Ph.D. 206-884-8259 heather.violette@seattlechildrens.org

Locations
United States, Washington
Seattle Children's Research Institute Recruiting
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98121
Contact: Heather D Violette, Ph.D.    206-884-8259    heather.violette@seattlechildrens.org   
Principal Investigator: Dimitri A Christakis, MD, MPH         
Sponsors and Collaborators
Seattle Children's Hospital
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Dimitri A Christakis, MD, MPH Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington
  More Information

Responsible Party: Dimitri Christakis, Investigator, Seattle Children's Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01573793     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 13852
1R01HD068478-01A1 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
First Submitted: March 30, 2012
First Posted: April 10, 2012
Last Update Posted: March 26, 2014
Last Verified: March 2014