Coaching Alternative Parenting Strategies (CAPS) Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Child Abuse, Self-control, Parenting

In brief

This is a randomized, controlled trial (RCT) of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) designed to test the effects of PCIT on self-regulation and behavior in child maltreating (CM) parents and their elementary-school children. Two hundred-fifty (250) maltreating mothers and their children (age 5-8 years) will be drawn from Child Protective Services and randomized to the PCIT intervention or a control condition (services as usual). Key contextual risk factors will be assessed, including cumulative risk, parent mental health, and parent substance use. A multirater, multimethod approach to assessment will include measures of self-regulation, parenting skills and children's behavior outcomes. Families will be followed to 1 year for CM recidivism. Findings from this proposed study are expected to have significant implications for optimizing CM parenting interventions by (a) determining the sensitivity of CM parent and child neurobehavioral self-regulation systems to intervention, and (b) identifying individual differences in self-regulation that mediate and moderate response to intervention and long-term maintenance of gains.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02684903

Run by

University of Oregon

People needed

408

Starts

2016-02-01

Expected to finish

2022-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2023-11-02

Who can join

Age: 3 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Resident of Lane County
• Parent is 18 or older
• Biological or custodial mother of a child between age 3 and 7 years at baseline
• Resides in the same home setting with the child
• Must be fluent in English
• Mom and child must be physically able to complete the assessment
• Family has an open case with Lane County Dept. Health Services.

You may not qualify if…

• Child sexual abuse in the family

Where it is running

• University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon, United States

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