Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Yeshiva University

Code:

NCT06781840

Conditions

Child Development

Parenting

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3 - 5

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Playing Playfully to Overcome Adversity

Study Details

Brief summary:

This project aims to assess the feasibility of an intervention program consisting of parent online group sessions in addition to guided individual play session between parent, child, and occupational therapy student (OTS) or an occupational therapist (OT).

The investigators speculate that the Promoting Health Through Play Opportunities program will be effective in improving:

1. Parent ability to support their child's playfulness as measured during 15-minute video-recorded joint play activity at home using the Parent/Caregiver Support of Childre Playfulness \[PC-SCP\].
2. Child's playfulness behavior as measured during 15-minute video-recorded joint play activity at home using the Test of Playfulness \[ToP\].
3. Child's psychological adjustment as measured by the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire \[SDQ\].
4. Parent's perception and satisfaction from their involvement in the program as measured through open-ended questions.

Conditions

Child Development

Parenting

Study ID

NCT06781840

Start date

Jan 21, 2022

Status verified date

Aug, 2024

Completion date

Dec 30, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 5, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3 - 5

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Enrolled in Head Start pre-school program within New York greater area
  • Parent-child dyads
  • Child must be 3 to 5 years old, with/without delay or disability.
  • If a parent has more than one child in this age range, the oldest of them will be recruited for the study
  • Parent IS committed to attending pre-and-posttest as well as online group sessions
  • Parent has access to a device other than a phone (tablet, iPad, laptop) and has stable internet connection to be able to participate in the online group and dyadic session
  • For the English-speaking group, parent must be fluent in English
  • For the Spanish speaking group, parent must be fluent in the Spanish language.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Parents with a sensory deficit (e.g., hearing or vision impairment) that will affect their ability to participate in an online group program
  • Parents with psychiatric or behavioral disorders that affect their ability to participate in a group-based intervention

Study Design

Enrollment

10 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Promoting Health Through Play English version

Parent online group sessions- English version consisting of five 45-minute-long parent group online sessions. In addition, each parent-child dyad will receive, one 30-minute-long online guided play session with OTS/OT.

other: Promoting Health Through Play Spanish version

Parent online group sessions- Spanish version consisting of five 45-minute-long parent group online sessions. In addition, each parent-child dyad will receive, one 30-minute-long online guided play session with OTS/OT.

Interventions

Playing Playfully to Overcome Adversity

The intervention will consist of two parts: (a) five 45-minute-long parent group online sessions; and (b) one 30-minute long online guided play session with OTS/OT.The training will consist of asynchronous module and PowerPoint presentations followed by role play and discussions.

Primary outcome measure

  • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Goodman R. (1997). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A research note. 38(5), 581-586. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks ]
  • Parent/Caregiver Support of Children Playfulness (PC-SCP). Waldman-Levi, A., & Bundy, A. (2023). Parent/Caregiver Support of Children Playfulness (PC-SCP). AOTA Press. [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks ]
  • Test of Playfulness. Skard, G., & Bundy, A. C. (2008). Test of Playfulness. In L. D. Parham & L. S. Fazio (Eds.), Play in occupational therapy for children (2nd ed., pp. 71-93). St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Clinical Professor, Director of Scholarship and Research

646.592.4765amiya.waldmanlevi@yu.edu

Lola Halperin, EdD

halperinl@sacredheart.edu

Locations

Head Start

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10453

Contacts

Amiya Waldman-Levi, PhD

646.592.4765amiya.waldmanlevi@yu.edu

Danette L Brown, PhD

(718) 901-0140

More Information

Sponsor

Yeshiva University

Last update posted

Jan 17, 2025

Last verified

Aug, 2024

Keywords

  • play
  • playfulness
  • parent-group educational training

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Yeshiva University on 2025-01-17.