Hassle Free Mealtimes Triple P: Evaluation of a Parenting Group for Problem Eating in Childhood Using Observational Data.
The impact of Brief Hassle Free Mealtimes Triple P on child behaviour and parenting for toddler and preschool children with mealtime difficulties, using observed child and parent behaviour.
The University of Queensland
100 participants
Apr 14, 2014
Interventional
Conditions
Summary
The project will aim to test a single-session parenting group for parents of children with problem eating. It will add observational data to a trial conducted in 2012. It is anticipated that the group will improve child feeding, the strategies parent use at mealtimes, and how parents think and feel about mealtimes. The study will also seek to identify which types of feeding problems respond best to this intervention.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- Parent of a child aged 2-5 years of age who is concerned about their child's feeding and/or mealtimes.
Exclusion Criteria1
- a) Child with a disability and/or chronic illness, including language and speech impairment; b) Parents currently seeing a professional for the child’s behaviour difficulties; c) Parents currently receiving psychological/psychiatric help or counselling (personal/marital); d) Parents intellectually disabled and/or hearing impaired.
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Interventions
Brief Hassle-Free Mealtimes Triple P (Morawska & Sanders, in press) is a Level 2 Triple P intervention based on the principles of behavioural family intervention and social learning. Parents attending the Hassle-Free Mealtimes program will receive one 2-hour group session on the causes of childhood feeding difficulties, establishing eating routines and ground rules, and various behavioural strategies including praise, positive attention, behaviour charts, modelling, planned ignoring, instructions and consequences. The program will be delivered by trained practitioners to groups of 10-12 parents. Teaching methods will include didactic instruction, active skills training and homework tasks so that parents may achieve mastery of skills.
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ACTRN12614000436673