Promoting Health Through Play Program: Improving Parent and Child Outcomes
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: Playing Playfully to Overcome Adversity.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Child Development, Parenting. Basic parameters: 3 years — 5 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 Feasibility of the Promoting Health Through Play Opportunities Program in Improving Parent and Child Outcomes for Underserved Families.
Overview
This project aims to assess the feasibility of an intervention program consisting of parent online group sessions in addition to guided individual play session between parent, child, and occupational therapy student (OTS) or an occupational therapist (OT). The investigators speculate that the Promoting Health Through Play Opportunities program will be effective in improving: 1. Parent ability to support their child's playfulness as measured during 15-minute video-recorded joint play activity at home using the Parent/Caregiver Support of Childre Playfulness \[PC-SCP\]. 2. Child's playfulness behavior as measured during 15-minute video-recorded joint play activity at home using the Test of Playfulness \[ToP\]. 3. Child's psychological adjustment as measured by the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire \[SDQ\]. 4. Parent's perception and satisfaction from their involvement in the program as measured through open-ended questions.
Detailed description
The Promoting Health Through Play Opportunities program (Halperin et al., 2021; Waldman-Levi \& Halperin, 2022) is a strength-based intervention that provides tools to help parents become change agents in their child's life through the promotion of healthy play opportunities within the family context. This research project aims to enhance children's development through playful interactions with their parents. The investigators speculate that the program will be effective in improving parent and child joint play experience and child's social-emotional functioning.
Interventions
- Behavioral Playing Playfully to Overcome Adversity
The intervention will consist of two parts: (a) five 45-minute-long parent group online sessions; and (b) one 30-minute long online guided play session with OTS/OT.The training will consist of asynchronous module and PowerPoint presentations followed by role play and discussions.
Primary outcome measures
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Goodman R. (1997). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A research note. 38(5), 581-586. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks]
- Parent/Caregiver Support of Children Playfulness (PC-SCP). Waldman-Levi, A., & Bundy, A. (2023). Parent/Caregiver Support of Children Playfulness (PC-SCP). AOTA Press. [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks]
- Test of Playfulness. Skard, G., & Bundy, A. C. (2008). Test of Playfulness. In L. D. Parham & L. S. Fazio (Eds.), Play in occupational therapy for children (2nd ed., pp. 71-93). St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Parent post program interview [Time frame: 6 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Enrolled in Head Start pre-school program within New York greater area
- Parent-child dyads
- Child must be 3 to 5 years old, with/without delay or disability.
- If a parent has more than one child in this age range, the oldest of them will be recruited for the study
- Parent IS committed to attending pre-and-posttest as well as online group sessions
- Parent has access to a device other than a phone (tablet, iPad, laptop) and has stable internet connection to be able to participate in the online group and dyadic session
- For the English-speaking group, parent must be fluent in English
- For the Spanish speaking group, parent must be fluent in the Spanish language.
Exclusion criteria
- Parents with a sensory deficit (e.g., hearing or vision impairment) that will affect their ability to participate in an online group program
- Parents with psychiatric or behavioral disorders that affect their ability to participate in a group-based intervention
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Head Start — New York
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06781840 · 20226278