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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12613000025730

Ethics application status

Approved

Date submitted

3/01/2013

Date registered

9/01/2013

Date last updated

4/08/2015

Type of registration

Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

Efficacy of a low intensity online parenting program for child behaviour problems: Brief Triple P Online

Scientific title

For parents of 2-9 year old children with behaviour problems, does participation in a brief online parenting intervention, compared to internet-use-as-usual, decrease use of ineffective parenting strategies, increase parenting confidence, and reduce child behavioural and emotional problems?

Secondary ID [1]

Nil known

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

U1111-1138-1942

Trial acronym

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

child emotional and behaviour problems

Condition category

Condition code

Mental Health

Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Interventional

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

Brief Triple P Online is a low intensity, self-administered online parenting program. It is designed to promote positive parenting practices and uses the flexibility of the internet to enhance parents‘ learning experiences. It incorporates elements designed to engage participants and improve knowledge acquisition, positive self-efficacy, and behaviour activation. These elements include: i) user friendly navigation; ii) video-based modelling of parenting skills; iii) personalised content; iv) interactive exercises to prompt parental problem solving, decision making and self-regulation. Cultural sensitivity is achieved through the use of multicultural video models and a self-regulatory framework that enables parents to select goals informed by their own values, beliefs, and traditions.
Users receive personal log-in details and complete the online program on their home computers/tablets in their own time. The 5 program modules take between 20-30 minutes each to complete and parents have access to the program for 8 weeks. The module topics cover some of the most common issues presented by parents. The first module introduces positive parenting strategies and makes parents aware of parent traps. The remaining modules focus on behaviour specific (disobedience, fighting) and setting specific (out of home) application of this knowledge.

Intervention code [1]

Behaviour

Comparator / control treatment

A computer-use-as-usual waitlist control design will be applied whereby half of the parents will be randomly allocated to wait 11 months before accessing the intervention. Participants of the control group are free to search the internet for useful parenting information during the waiting time.

Control group

Active

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

Observed and parent-reported child behavioural and emotional problems, as assessed using direct observation of child behaviour by researchers, the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory, and the Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale (CAPES; Morawska & Sanders, 2010). The CAPES consists of 30 items rated on a 4-point scale (0 = not true of my child at all to 3 = true of my child very much, or most of the time). Twenty six items assess behaviour concerns (e.g., My child rudely answers back to me) and behavioural competencies (Behaviour Scale; e.g., My child accepts rules and limits), and four items assess emotional adjustment (Emotional Adjustment Scale; e.g., My child worries).

Timepoint [1]

Measures will be administered upon entry to the study (Time 1) and then 8 weeks later (Time 2). For families in the start now group, this will be immediately after completion of the online program. Families will be assessed a final time after 9 months (time 3). Upon completion of the final assessment families in the control group receive access to the intervention.

Secondary outcome [1]

Use of observed and parent-reported effective and ineffective parenting practices, as assessed using the Parenting Scale and direct observation of parent behaviour by researchers.

Timepoint [1]