Natural Helpers and PCIT
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Standard Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Natural Helpers (NH).
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Child Behavior, Parenting. Basic parameters: 2 years — 12 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Development and Implementation of a Natural Helpers Program to Increase the Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement of Underserved Families in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Overview
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a time-limited (i.e., 18 weeks) community health worker (CHW) intervention, referred to as the Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) plus natural helper (NH) model, on treatment engagement, retention, and child and caregiver outcomes.
Interventions
- Behavioral Standard Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
PCIT is an evidence-based behavioral parenting intervention. It is administered as weekly, one-hour sessions with a bilingual PCIT therapist for 18 weeks in one of three PCIT clinics embedded within neighborhood community agencies or virtually. - Behavioral Natural Helpers (NH)
Natural helpers are lay people to whom others naturally turn for advice, emotional support, and tangible aid. Families received weekly sessions with a natural helpers in their home or virtually for 30-45 minutes for a maximum of 18 weeks. During sessions, natural helpers work with families to (1) explain parenting principles in a culturally and responsive manner; (2) support them in their skill acquisition; and (3) troubleshoot structural barriers to service and other basic life needs.
Primary outcome measures
- Child externalizing behavior as measured by ECBI Intensity Scale [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
- Child externalizing behavior as measured by ECBI Problem Scale [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
- Parenting Skills as measured by the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS-IV) [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
- Parenting Stress as measured by Parenting Stress Index Short Form (PSI-SF-4) [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
- Family conflict as measured by Bloom's Family Processes Scale [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
- Family cohesion as measured by Bloom's Family Processes Scale [Time frame: Up to 26 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Families of children 2 years of age to 12 years of age.
- Children 2 to 7 years of age with a history of child abuse or neglect and/or child behavior problems or children ages 8 years to 12 years of age with history of or risk for abuse and the child does not exhibit clinically significant behavior problems.
- At the time of enrollment, participants must agree that, within the upcoming six months, they will not move away to a location where they would no longer be able to regularly attend weekly sessions (i.e., moving out of Miami Dade County).
Exclusion criteria
- Families with child younger than 2 years of age or older than 7 years of age with clinically significant behavior problems
- Adults who are unable to consent and prisoners
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 2 centers
- ConnectFamilias — Miami
- Mailman Center for Child Development — Miami
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05400434 · 20140839