Behavioral Parent Training for Disruptive Behavior in Children (HOT DOCS and DOCS K-5)
This study is testing two behavioral parent training programs, HOT DOCS and DOCS K-5, designed to help caregivers and professionals manage disruptive behaviors in children aged 0-12 years. HOT DOCS is for children aged 0-5 years, and DOCS K-5 is for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade. The programs offer problem-solving approaches to understand and resolve everyday behavior problems, focusing on prevention and positive support. Researchers will measure changes in children's behavior using the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory and caregiver stress using the DOCS Parenting Stress Measure over 6 weeks. You may be able to join if you are a caregiver or professional caring for a child aged 0-12 years and speak English or Spanish. The study aims to enroll 800 participants, but its current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 800 participants. It uses group-delivered behavioral parent training programs.
- What's involved
- Participants will receive behavioral parent training over 6 weeks. Measures of child behavior and parenting stress will be taken at the beginning and end of this 6-week period.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants are followed for 6 weeks, from enrollment to the end of treatment.
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Behavioral Parent Training to Address Early Childhood Disruptive Behavior Using the DOCS Parenting Programs
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07505381
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
University of South Florida
Tampa, Floridastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
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What this trial measures
- Eyberg Child Behavior InventoryFrom enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks.
Child behavior problems are analyzed at pre- and post-intervention using the Intensity scale of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI). Caregivers used a 7-point Likert scale (1 = never to 7 = always) to rate intensity of child problem behaviors (e.g., aggression, whining, noncompliance). Intensity scores range from 36 to 252, and a score of 131 or higher indicates a clinically significant behavior problem and higher scores = worse outcome. The ECBI has high test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and inter-rater reliability (αs = .75, .93, and .79, respectively) and strong content and construct validity.
- DOCS Parenting Stress MeasureFrom enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks.
Parenting stress is analyzed using the DOCS Parenting Stress Measure at pre- and post-intervention (DOCS PSM, adapted from the Autism Parenting Stress Index. The APSI was designed to measure caregivers' ability to cope with the demands of raising a child with autism and includes 13 items related to daily living, development, and adaptation. The adaptation involved slightly re-wording some items (e.g., changing your child's diet to your child's feeding difficulties) and adding four items on the impact parenting has on other aspects of the caregiver's life, like the time and financial resources parenting takes. Like the ASPI, the 17-item DOCS PSM uses Likert-scale responses ranging from 0 = not stressful to 4 = so stressful sometimes you feel you can't cope with total scores ranging from 0-68, higher scores = more stress and worse outcome. The ASPI has demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability (αs = .83, .88, respectively).