Family-Based Prevention With Black and Latinx Children

Last updated: June 13, 2024
Sponsor: University of South Carolina
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

N/A

Condition

N/A

Treatment

Parenting Intervention

Clinical Study ID

NCT06111651
Pro00124236
5P20GM130420
  • Ages 3-6
  • All Genders
  • Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

The main objective of this project is to test whether providing parenting support, with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors, improves the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

Eligible children will:

  • be between the ages of 3-6 years

  • identify as Black/African American or Latinx/Hispanic

  • have a parent or caregiver willing to participate in the intervention that: (a)lives in the same household as the child ≥50% of the time, (b) has primaryresponsibility for the child, and (c) speaks English or Spanish.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

Consistent with typical methods associated with a universal prevention approach, there are minimal exclusion criteria. Children will be excluded who:

  • have a cognitive/psychological condition that limits the child's ability tocommunicate

  • have a physical health condition that limits the child's ability to be physicallyactive

Study Design

Total Participants: 60
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: Parenting Intervention
Phase:
Study Start date:
June 05, 2024
Estimated Completion Date:
February 01, 2026

Study Description

This pilot project is novel in that it (a) interweaves positive parenting practices, ethnic-racial socialization, and healthy lifestyle behaviors into a prevention program for Black and Latinx families, and (b) targets preschool-aged children using a brief, universal prevention approach, which increases potential for dissemination and scalability. The guiding hypothesis is that incorporating these components into a parenting intervention will lead to improvements in children's health as compared to a control condition. A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation design is used to simultaneously test intervention effectiveness while also gathering information on intervention delivery to inform future implementation trials. The specific aims are to: (a) test the preliminary effects of a preventive intervention on the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children, (b) identify the preliminary effects of the intervention on parenting outcomes, and (c) examine potential barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery.

Connect with a study center

  • University of South Carolina

    Columbia, South Carolina 29208
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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