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Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth
Led by University of Pittsburgh · Updated on 2026-01-28
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
170 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Pittsburgh
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this mechanistic clinical trial is to examine whether parent-coaching aimed at increasing child positive affect will increase child neural response to reward. The main questions it aims to answer are: Aim 1. Characterize child neural reward response and its relation to maternal socialization of positive emotions at baseline in healthy young children. Aim 2. Evaluate how coaching-related changes in maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contribute to increases in child neural reward response over time. Aim 3. Examine how maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contributes to increases in child neural reward response in the moment. Participating mother-child dyads will be randomized to either 3 sessions of parent coaching of child positive affect or 3 sessions of a general parenting support intervention and neural response to reward and affective behavior will be examined pre and post intervention.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Birth mother (biologically female, any gender)
- Providing regular care for participating child (at least 50% of the time)
- Elevated, clinically significant depression symptoms (CES-D score of 16 or higher)
- Aged 18 years or older
- Child aged 4 to 6 years
You will not qualify if you...
- Lifetime history of bipolar disorder
- Lifetime history of psychotic disorder
- Child with T-score greater than 63 on internalizing or externalizing behavior scales of CBCL
- Child with lifetime history of psychiatric illness
- Child with lifetime history of neurodevelopmental disorder
- Child with lifetime history of neurological disorder
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
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Research Team
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
DOUBLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
2
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