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Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood
Led by University of Illinois at Chicago · Updated on 2024-12-05
180
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
227 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Deficits in executive functioning (EF) disproportionately impact children living in poverty and increase risk for psychopathology, particularly disruptive behavior disorders. This randomized clinical trial seeks to determine whether childhood EF, assessed across neural and behavioral units of analysis, is an experimental therapeutic target that can be directly modified through caregiver participation in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), if increases in EF predict reduced disruptive behavior trajectories in low-income children over a short-term follow-up period, and identify which CPP-driven parenting skill improvements are the most influential in modifying EF. This work will contribute new knowledge as to whether a cost-efficient parenting intervention, developed for and with low-income families raising young children in poverty, can modify EF, a neural behavioral mechanism implicated in risk for childhood disruptive behavior problems.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Children must be between the ages of 4 years old and 5 years, 11 months old
- Parent must be the legal guardian of the target child and must live with the child full-time
- Parents will be 18 years and older (no maximum age limit)
- Only one child and one parent per family can participate in the study
- Child is Medicaid eligible, defined as receiving Medicaid or eligible based on family income (up to 142 percent of the federal poverty level)
- At enrollment the child will have moderate-to-severe impairments in executive functioning indicated by a standardized score greater than or equal to 60 on the BRIEF-P
- Parents and children must be English-speaking
- Child does not have a prior or current diagnosis of a disruptive behavior disorder based on DSM-5 criteria
- Child is not currently receiving mental health services
- Child does not take medications to treat emotional or behavioral problems
- Child does not have a medical condition such as epilepsy that would interfere with study tasks
- Child is not actively suicidal
- Child does not have a history of psychosis or currently psychotic
- Parent does not have a medical condition that would interfere with the study
- Parent does not have an intellectual disability that would interfere with the study
- Parent does not have severe mental illness, active suicidal ideation, or current alcohol/substance abuse that would interfere with participation
- Child can have current or past psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, mood, or ADHD
- Parent can have current or past psychiatric disorders
- Parent can be taking medications for mental health problems
You will not qualify if you...
- Child is not between the ages of 4-5 years old
- Parent is not the legal guardian of the child or does not live with the child full-time
- Parent is younger than 18 years old
- Child is not Medicaid eligible
- Child does not have moderate-to-severe impairments in executive functioning (score less than 60 on BRIEF-P)
- Child and parent are not English-speaking
- Child has a prior or current diagnosis of a disruptive behavior disorder based on DSM-5 criteria
- Child is currently receiving mental health services
- Child takes medications to treat emotional or behavioral problems
- Child has a medical condition such as epilepsy that would interfere with study tasks
- Child is actively suicidal
- Child has a history of psychosis or is currently psychotic
- Parent is unwilling to be randomly assigned to receive the Chicago Parent Program or control condition
- Parent has a medical condition that would interfere with the study
- Parent has an intellectual disability that would interfere with the study
- Parent has severe mental illness or active suicidal ideation
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
J
Jennifer Suor, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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