Parenting and children’s behavioural problems
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Parenting and children’s behavioural problems: Micro-processes at play in the context of intervention
IRAS ID
327632
Contact name
Emily Midouhas
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2023/11/97, UCL data protection number
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 20 days
Research summary
Child behaviour problems are one of the most common reasons parents ask for or are referred for professional support. Breaking negative cycles of behaviour between parents and children is one of the best ways we know to improve child behaviour problems and is a common focus in mental health support. And yet we do not have a complete picture of how changes in negative cycles occur during mental health support. This project aims to look at these changes in-between support sessions by collecting new data from families who are presently undergoing support for their children’s behavioural problems through parent training. The project will collect information from 25 families with a child aged between 5 and 18 using an App called CALMS (Contextualising and Learning in Mental Health Support). CALMS allows parents to tell us about their own and their child’s behaviours twice a day. Parents will also complete questionnaires at the start and end of support about their own and their child's mental health. Parents will be recruited to the study on a rolling basis over a year-long period and will be invited to answer questions daily throughout the period when they are receiving support, usually 10-12 weeks.
The findings will be shared with a range of stakeholders including parents, practitioners and academics at an event at the end of the project. We will seek their views on how our study’s findings can be used to inform our understanding of and future research on parent-child dynamics in the context of professional support.
REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/LO/0391
Date of REC Opinion
2 Jul 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion