RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT07083037

Enhancing Preschool Children's Attention and Behaviour: Parent-Focused Program


Sponsor

McGill University

Enrollment

60 participants

Start Date

Feb 1, 2025

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the Building Regulation in Dual Generations (BRIDGE) program for caregivers with significant mental health concerns and preschool and young children (3-7 years old) with elevated attention and/or behavior problems. The BRIDGE program focuses on supporting parental psychological distress and improving young children's self-regulation (SR), thereby reducing their attention and behavior problems. The long-term goal of this work is to improve family well-being and social-emotional development for young children by implementing an accessible and scalable dual-regulation program. The investigators will achieve this through the following key objectives: 1. Assess the feasibility and accessibility of BRIDGE for preschool and young children (3-7 years old) with significant attention and behavior programs through questionnaires asking about attendance, satisfaction, and unmet needs. 2. Examine the efficacy of BRIDGE compared to control group at improving maternal mental health and child attention and behavioral difficulties in young children (primary outcomes). The investigators will also examine parenting stress (secondary outcome). 3. Identify predictors of academic readiness skills in preschool and young children. The investigators hypothesize that an increase in parental and child emotion-regulation skills and reduced attention, as well as behavioral problems, will lead to increased pre-academic skills in children.


Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This study is testing a group therapy program called BRIDGE for mothers of young children (aged 3–7) who have both depression symptoms and a child with attention or behavior problems. The goal is to see whether treating the mother's depression also improves her child's attention and behavior difficulties. **You may be eligible if (Treatment Group)...** - You are a mother over 18 with a child aged 3–7 living in Quebec, Ontario, or Manitoba, Canada - You have mild to moderate depression that affects your daily life, including during or shortly after pregnancy - Your child has attention or behavior problems confirmed by a screening tool - You speak English fluently **You may be eligible if (Control Group)...** - You are a mother over 18 with a child aged 3–7 in the same provinces - You do NOT have depression and your child does NOT have attention or behavior problems **You may NOT be eligible if...** - You have severe depression or your child does not have relevant behavioral issues (for the treatment group) - You are unable to attend weekly group therapy sessions - You live outside of Quebec, Ontario, or Manitoba Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALBuilding Regulation in Dual Generations (BRIDGE; DBT + Parenting)

The BRIDGE intervention includes 12 weeks of 20-60-minute DBT and parenting skills training videos, delivered asynchronously via an online website requiring a participant login. Video content was drawn from concepts outlined in the DBT Skills Training Manual 2nd Edition (Linehan, 2015). Parenting videos will provide mothers with parenting skills education based on best practices in evidence-based positive parenting interventions (e.g., Parent Management Training, Positive Parenting, Kazdin, 1997; Sanders et al., 2014). The BRIDGE condition also includes weekly synchronous 1-hour virtual group therapy sessions and worksheets to complete weekly (as an opportunity to practice skill use).


Locations(2)

University of Manitoba - Department of Psychology

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

McGill University - Department of Education and Counselling Psychology

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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