Purposeful Parenting: Enhanced Anticipatory Guidance for the First Year of Life
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Parenting
In brief
Pediatricians' provision of parenting-focused anticipatory guidance often does not meet parents' needs; the few studies that have investigated primary-care based strategies to promote positive parenting rely on time-intensive, high-cost interventions, thereby limiting their generalizability. Therefore, the Purposeful Parenting was developed as a universal program of enhanced anticipatory guidance. At each well-child visit in the first year of a child's life, Purposeful Parenting provides parents with: 1) scripted anticipatory guidance and handouts focused on the child's emerging social-emotional and linguistic (SEL) skills, brain development and the importance of responsive parenting; and 2) a "reminder" item (e.g., a "Smile at Me" onesie) that allows for in-office role modeling and promotes practicing of an age-specific, nurturing parent-child interaction. If an in-office intervention is missed (e.g. parent cancels visit, interventionist out sick) the intervention will be delivered by telephone if possible by the site-based clinical interventionists and the "reminder" items will be mailed.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02428465
- Run by
- Boston Medical Center
- People needed
- 290
- Starts
- 2015-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-12-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Families (parent >=18 years of age) with a newborn, born at >= 34 weeks, presenting for well-child care
- Family plans to remain at that practice
- English or Spanish speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Debilitating chronic condition; prematurity (<34 weeks gestation)
Where it is running
- Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Dimock Health Center — Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States
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