Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth
Recruiting now · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Depression, Parent-Child Relations
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06725160
- Run by
- University of Pittsburgh
- People needed
- 180
- Starts
- 2025-10-28
- Expected to finish
- 2029-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-01-28
Who can join
Age: 4 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
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