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Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood
Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
Summary
Deficits in executive functioning (EF) disproportionately impact children living in poverty and increase risk for psychopathology, particularly disruptive behavior disorders. This randomized clinical trial seeks to determine whether childhood EF, assessed across neural and behavioral units of analysis, is an experimental therapeutic target that can be directly modified through caregiver participation in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), if increases in EF predict reduced disruptive behavior trajectories in low-income children over a short-term follow-up period, and identify which CPP-driven parenting skill improvements are the most influential in modifying EF. This work will contribute new knowledge as to whether a cost-efficient parenting intervention, developed for and with low-income families raising young children in poverty, can modify EF, a neural behavioral mechanism implicated in risk for childhood disruptive behavior problems.
Official title: Improving Brain-Behavior Markers of Preschool Executive Function Through a Group-Based Parenting Intervention for Low-Income Families
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
180
Start Date
2023-11-20
Completion Date
2028-03-31
Last Updated
2024-12-05
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Chicago Parent Program
Chicago Parent Program is an evidence-based group parenting intervention designed to reduce disruptive behavior in young children (2-8 years old).
Locations (1)
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States