Clinical Trial: Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions

Brief Summary: The proposed research will focus on the development of a brief emotion-coaching (EC) parenting program (which directly targets child emotion awareness/recognition and affective empathy), that will be combined with a well-established parent management training program (Helping the Noncompliant Child; HNC) for treating oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in children who also have limited prosocial emotions (e.g., lack of guilt and empathy, callous use of others).

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: University of Washington

Current Primary Outcome:

  • Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory - intensity score [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Child conduct problems at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Early Childhood Inventory-4 ODD scale [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Change in child conduct problems for children ages 3-5 at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Child Symptom Inventory-IV [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Child conduct problems for children ages 6-7 at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Behavioral Coding System - percent child inappropriate behaviors [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Child inappropriate behaviors at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Behavioral Coding System percent child compliance [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Child compliance at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits - preschool version - total score [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Callous-unemotional traits at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment (NEPSY-II) Affect Recognition Task - fear recognition [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Affect recognition at baseline, mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • NEPSY-II Affect Recognition Task - sadness recognition [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Affect recognition in baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Griffith Empathy Measure - empathy score [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Empathy at baseline and post-treatment
  • Behavioral coding of Zahn-Waxler empathy paradigm - amount of attention, affective response congruent with examiner, concern for others, disregard for others [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Empathy at baseline and post-treatment
  • Behavioral Coding System - positive attention rate per minute [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Parenting behavior - positive attention at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Behavioral Coding System - total commands rate per minute [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Change in parenting behavior - commands at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Parenting scale - overactivity [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Parenting at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Parenting scale - laxness [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Parenting at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Parent Meta-Emotion Interview emotion coaching scale [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Emotion coaching at baseline and post-treatment
  • Parenting Sense of Competence satisfaction scale [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Parenting satisfaction at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment
  • Parenting Sense of Competence efficacy scale [ Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of outpatient treatment, an expected average of 25 weeks ]
    Parenting efficacy at baseline mid-treatment and post-treatment


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University of Washington

Dates:
Date Received: March 25, 2015
Date Started: June 2015
Date Completion: May 31, 2018
Last Updated: May 24, 2017
Last Verified: May 2017