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Childhood Chronic Illness: An Educational Program for Parents of Children With On-Going Health Care Needs

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Seattle Children's Hospital
Information provided by:
University of Washington
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00194584
First received: September 13, 2005
Last updated: September 25, 2008
Last verified: September 2008
History of Changes
  Purpose

The long-term goal of this research is to strengthen parents' abilities to manage the complexities of childhood chronic illness. To achieve this goal, the team of parents, health care professionals, and researchers proposes the following specific aim:

  • Develop, implement, and test a unique psycho-educational program, Living with Childhood Chronic Illness (the Program), for effectiveness with parents of children who have chronic illnesses.

The investigators propose the following hypotheses:

At both 6 and 12 month follow-up points, parents taking part in the intervention, in contrast to control parents, will have:

  1. Greater perceived self-efficacy regarding their ability to manage the child's chronic condition;
  2. Greater parental ability to involve their child in shared management activities;
  3. Greater parental ability to cope at 6 and 12 months following the end of the intervention;
  4. Greater emotional health; and
  5. Greater parental perceived family quality of life.

Condition Intervention
Chronic Illness
 Behavioral: 7 week Building on Family Strengths Program

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Official Title: Building on Family Strengths: An Educational Program for Parents of Children With On-Going Health Care Needs

Resource links provided by NLM:

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by University of Washington:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • depressive symptoms [ Time Frame: 6, and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • self-efficacy [ Time Frame: 6 and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • parent-child shared management [ Time Frame: 6, and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • coping [ Time Frame: 6, and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • quality of life [ Time Frame: 6, and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 129
Study Start Date: October 2004
Study Completion Date: February 2007
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1 Behavioral: 7 week Building on Family Strengths Program
Parents in intervention group attend a 2 hr class for seven weeks. These classes provide information, time for discussion and creation of an action plan for the parent to complete in the intervening week.
No Intervention: 0

Detailed Description:

Parents will enroll in the study by contacting the study number: 206-987-1000 or by sending an email message to family.strengths@seattlechildrens.org. They will complete a survey taking no more than 60 minutes. Parents will then be randomized to either take the class immediately or be in the control group which can take the class in 12 months. At the end of 6 and 12 months all the participants again take the survey.

Classes are 7 weeks in length, 2 hours each and are offered at various locations throughout the Greater Seattle area.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Child 2-11 years of age, with diagnosed chronic illness
  • Parent at least 18 years of age, able to speak and read English at 4th grade level and able to attend a 7 week two-hour class program

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Child in active hospice treatment
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00194584

Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Washington
Seattle Children's Hospital
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Gail M Kieckhefer, PhD University of Washington
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Gail Kieckhefer, PhD, University of Washington
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00194584     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 04-0564-01, 1R01HS013384-04
Study First Received: September 13, 2005
Last Updated: September 25, 2008
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by University of Washington:
children
chronic illness
parent education
parent support

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Chronic Disease
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 16, 2013