A pilot trial of the iENGAGE Program; games for mothers to play with their children to improve children’s self-control.

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 25 June 2018
• Main ID: ACTRN12617000892314
• Date of registration: 19/06/2017
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
• Public title: A pilot trial of the iENGAGE Program; games for mothers to play with their children to improve children’s self-control.
• Scientific title: A pilot trial of the iENGAGE Program; games for mothers to play with their children to improve children’s self-control.
• Date of first enrolment: 20/09/2017
• Target sample size: 30
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://www.anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12617000892314.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Non-randomised trial Single group
• Phase: Not Applicable

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Self-control in difficult to manage children (see private notes in answer to your queries)

Intervention(s)

This pilot trial aims to test feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a novel online program called iENGAGE that seeks to help mothers teach self-control to their young children.

The online iENGAGE program is developed based on the established face-to-face ENGAGE program by Healey and Halperin (2015) in New Zealand. The iENGAGE Program is a self-managed, 10 week online intervention consisting of 6 lessons completed by the mother alone online. During these lessons, which take approximately 30 minutes each to complete, the mother learns how to introduce to and play games with her child to improve self-control. These games are designed to teach self-control in fun and functional ways appropriate to a child (e.g. musical statues to teach the child how to stop/stand still when asked), and as a result build the strengths of the child and bolster the child-parent relationship. These lessons are complemented with homework tasks (called lesson summaries) which allow the mother to continue to practice the skills learned in the lessons.

Adherence to the program will be monitored using the online software platform called Virtual Clinic, which records lesson access and completion, whether homework is downloaded, as well as sends helpful reminders to mothers when the next lesson is available or if a lesson is not completed.

Mother's ratings of their child's conduct and hyperactivity will be assessed before and after the iENGAGE program, as well as mother's self ratings of the child-parent relationship.