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Study identifier: NCT05796466 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 29, 2026
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Improving Preschoolers' Mental Health: A RCT Assessing Two Parenting Programs

Condition: Mental Health Issue · Parenting  ·  Sponsor: Mireille Joussemet

PhaseNA
Planned participants320
Who can joinAll sexes, 18 Years to no upper limit
Healthy volunteersYes

About this study

The goal of this randomized control trial (RCT) is to assess the superiority of the How-to Parenting Program in improving autonomy support and preschoolers' mental health (i.e., decreases externalizing problems) among vulnerable families. The main question it aims to answer is: Can teaching concrete parenting skills that target empirically-based parenting dimensions (via the How-to Parenting Program) have an added value for improving parental autonomy support and child mental health, compared to a parenting program that does not focus on teaching parenting skills (Nobody's Perfect program \[NP\])? Early childhood centers providing services to parents of 3-4 years olds will be randomly assigned to one of two 6-week programs. Parents will fill out questionnaires before (T1) and after (T2) programs delivery as well as at 6-month (T3) and 1-year follow-ups (T4). They and their child will also engage in filmed parent-child interactions at T1 and T3 during predetermined activities, to obtain observational measures of parenting and child socioemotional competences. Researchers will compare the How-to and NP conditions to see if there was an accentuated increase in parental autonomy support and child mental health in the How-to condition. As secondary analyses, researchers will compare the How-to and NP conditions on parenting quality, child socioemotional competences, and parental cognitions as well as explore the conditions in which NP could be equal (or superior) to the How-to Par…

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Talk to the study team

Mireille Joussemet, Ph.D.  ·  514 343-5745  ·  m.joussemet@umontreal.ca

Mageau Geneviève, Ph.D.  ·  514 343-2460  ·  g.mageau@umontreal.ca

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Locations (1)

Université de MontréalMontreal, Quebec, CanadaRecruiting

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