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Study identifier: NCT06725160 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 28, 2026
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Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth

Condition: Depression · Parent-Child Relations  ·  Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh

PhaseNA
Planned participants180
Who can joinAll sexes, 4 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteersYes

About this study

The goal of this mechanistic clinical trial is to examine whether parent-coaching aimed at increasing child positive affect will increase child neural response to reward. The main questions it aims to answer are: Aim 1. Characterize child neural reward response and its relation to maternal socialization of positive emotions at baseline in healthy young children. Aim 2. Evaluate how coaching-related changes in maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contribute to increases in child neural reward response over time. Aim 3. Examine how maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contributes to increases in child neural reward response in the moment. Participating mother-child dyads will be randomized to either 3 sessions of parent coaching of child positive affect or 3 sessions of a general parenting support intervention and neural response to reward and affective behavior will be examined pre and post intervention.

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Julie Research Coordinator  ·  412-509-8787  ·  PEACHY@upmc.edu

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Locations (1)

University of PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecruiting

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