Using behavioral insights to promote and sustain parenting skills: The Crianza Positiva Messaging Program

Last registered on February 15, 2019

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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Using behavioral insights to promote and sustain parenting skills: The Crianza Positiva Messaging Program
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0003585
Initial registration date
November 26, 2018

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
November 26, 2018, 2:15 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated
February 15, 2019, 7:59 PM EST

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Universidad de Montevideo

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
Universidad de Montevideo
PI Affiliation
Universidad de Montevideo

Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2017-08-01
End date
2019-06-30
Secondary IDs
Abstract
The Crianza Positiva text and voice messaging program is a 25-week experimental intervention developed for families that participated in an 8-week positive parenting workshop that promotes parenting affective, formative, protective and reflective competencies. The contents of the text and voice messaging program were designed to increase the saliency of the skills exercised during the workshop, help simplify complex tasks in simpler components, make the future benefits of current parental effort more notorious and contribute to enhance parental self-esteem by helping parents identify their strengths and resources and work on their self-care. The aim of the text and voice messages is to make parents exercise more effectively the practices incorporated during the workshop, make parents develop and sustain positive parenting habits and make parents end up dedicating more time, better-quality time and more economic resources to their children.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Balsa, Ana, Juanita Bloomfield and Alejandro Cid. 2019. "Using behavioral insights to promote and sustain parenting skills: The Crianza Positiva Messaging Program." AEA RCT Registry. February 15. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.3585-2.0
Former Citation
Balsa, Ana, Juanita Bloomfield and Alejandro Cid. 2019. "Using behavioral insights to promote and sustain parenting skills: The Crianza Positiva Messaging Program." AEA RCT Registry. February 15. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3585/history/41627
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention (Hidden)
Intervention Start Date
2018-01-05
Intervention End Date
2018-06-27

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
We are interested in whether the intervention had an effect on:

1. Parental investment decisions in terms of:
- Physical play
- Daily care
- Didactic activities
- Socialization activities
- Involvement of the father
2. Parental use of positive parenting practices in everyday life
3. Parental knowledge of positive parenting practices
4. Parental perception of parenting skills as measured by the Parental Sense of Competence Scale
5. Interaction between child and caregiver measured using video techniques
6. Present bias as measured by the Monetary Choice Questionnaire
7. Parental stress as measured by the Parental Stress Index/ Short-form
8. Parental depression as measured by The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale
9. Child's cognitive and social-emotional development as measured by the Denver II
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We randomized participant families of the Crianza Positiva workshop into two groups: message-treated families and message-untreated families. The randomization was carried out in two stages. First, we stratified early childhood centers in two strata based on the median of the socioeconomic level of the center. From those two strata, we randomly selected 60% of early childhood centers to participate in the treatment group and 40% to participate in the control group. In a second stage, we selected message-treated families and message-untreated families within treatment early childhood centers using an allocation of 80%-20% respectively.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer.
Randomization Unit
Children within early childhood centers.
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
24 early childhood centers
Sample size: planned number of observations
529
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
292 children within 10 early childhood centers control, 237 children within 14 early childhood centers treatment
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
"Crianza Positiva: Impulsando y sosteniendo competencias parentales para un mejor desarrollo infantil"
IRB Approval Date
2017-08-31
IRB Approval Number
Document A 22-08-17. Comité de Ética en Investigación con Seres Humanos, Universidad Católica del Uruguay

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

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