A Dissemination Trial of the Positive Parenting Program to Reduce Child Maltreatment in South Carolina

• Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. Fed)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT00164606
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 14,690
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 52
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 282.3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This is a population-based evaluation of the effectiveness of the Triple-P-Positive Parenting Program. Triple-P is a system of parenting programs with multiple levels that aims to provide parents with parenting skills and support.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Child Abuse	Behavioral: Positive Parenting Program (Triple-P)	Phase 2

Detailed Description

Eighteen counties in the state of South Carolina will be randomized to the dissemination of the Triple-P system or to a waitlist control condition. University of South Carolina staff will train health care professionals in the nine dissemination counties to use the Triple-P parenting programs. Triple-P is a parenting program that uses a tiered system of interventions of increasing strength depending on parents' and children's differing needs, ranging from media and information-based strategies, to two levels of moderate-intensity intervention using a brief consultation format, to two more intensive levels of parent training and behavioral family intervention targeting parenting skills and other family adversity factors such as marital conflict, depression and high levels of parenting stress. The evaluation of the dissemination of Triple-P will rely on two methods: the analysis of aggregate data on child maltreatment, injuries and hospitalizations, and annual surveys of families to examining parenting education, practices, and child behavior.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Anticipated Enrollment: 14690 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: A Dissemination Trial of the Positive Parenting Program to Reduce Child Maltreatment in South Carolina
• Study Start Date: May 1, 2003
• Actual Study Completion Date: Sep 1, 2007

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. child maltreatment reports []

2. injury to children []

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A to 7 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Counties in South Carolina

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of South Carolina	Columbia	South Carolina	United States	29208

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Ronald J Prinz, PhD, University of South Carolina

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00164606
• Other Study ID Numbers: CDC-NCIPC-3838; U17/CCU422317-01
• First Posted: Sep 14, 2005
• Last Update Posted: Sep 21, 2007
• Last Verified: Sep 1, 2007

• Keywords provided by , ,: child maltreatment; child abuse; prevention

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Sep 21, 2007