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| University of Pittsburgh | OTHER |
| NYU Langone Health | OTHER |
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This study tests a comprehensive approach to the promotion of school readiness in low-income families, beginning shortly after the birth of the child, through enhancement of positive parenting practices (and when present, reduction of psychosocial stressors) within the pediatric primary care platform. The investigators do so by integrating two evidence-based interventions: 1) a universal primary prevention strategy (Video Interaction Project [VIP]); and 2) a targeted secondary/tertiary prevention strategy (Family Check-up [FCU]) for families with infants/toddlers identified as having additional risks. VIP provides parents with a developmental specialist who videotapes the parent and child and coaches the parent on effective parenting practices at each pediatric primary care visit. FCU is a home-based, family-centered intervention that utilizes an initial ecologically-focused assessment to promote motivation for parents to change child-rearing behaviors, with follow-up sessions on parenting and factors that compromise parenting quality.
Two primary care settings serving low-income communities in New York City, NY and Pittsburgh, PA will be utilized to test this integrated intervention in hospital-based clinics, providing information about translation across venues where one of the two interventions has been previously used alone.
The investigators plan to test the VIP/FCU model in a randomized trial of 400 families utilizing parent surveys, observational data on parent-child interactions, and direct assessments of children's development, at key points during intervention follow-up. Analyses will address questions of program impact for the integrated program across all families and by key subgroups.
The largest single contribution made by this study is to test whether an integrated primary and secondary/tertiary prevention strategy implemented in pediatric primary care can produce impacts on early school readiness outcomes, including social-emotional, pre-academic, and self-regulation. As such, this study has the potential to provide the scientific and practice communities with information about an innovative approach to promoting school readiness skills among low-income children.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| VIP/FCU | Experimental | VIP (Video Interaction Project) will be offered to all families assigned to the treatment group. FCU (Family Check Up) will be offered to families identified as high risk within the treatment group. Both treatments are parenting interventions. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Video Interaction Project | Behavioral | VIP utilizes pediatric well-child visits to build a relationship with an interventionist who facilitates self-reflection regarding interactions with the child through review of videotapes of the parent and child made that day and further facilitates interactions through provision of learning materials (toys and books). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Caregiver's cognitive stimulation | Caregiver's reports of cognitive stimulation. For example engagement in reading, teaching, and play (e.g., StimQ, Dreyer, Mendelsohn, & Tamis-LeMonda, 1995; Mendelsohn, Dreyer, & Tamis-LeMonda, 1999) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver's harsh parenting and discipline | Caregiver's reports of discipline strategies (e.g., Socolar et al., 2004; Incredible Years, Webster-Stratton, 2001; Steele et al., 2005) | When the child is 18 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver-child interaction quality | Caregiver's reports and coded videotaped interactions between caregivers and children (e.g., Parenting Young Children, PARYC; McEachern et al., 2011) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Quality of the home environment | Observer reports of the home environment (e.g., HOME inventory: Infant-Toddler (IT), Bradley & Caldwell, 1984) | When the child is 18 months old |
| Caregiver depression | Caregiver's reports of depression (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Cox, Holden & Sagovsky, 1987; Cox, Chapman, Declan & Jones, 1995) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver stress/ support | Caregiver's reports of stress, support, and perceptions of daily hassles (e.g., Abidin Parenting Stress Index, Abidin, 1990; General Life Satisfaction Questionnaire, Crnic, 1983; Parenting Daily Hassle scale, Crnic & Greenberg, 1990; Concern for Children scale, Vines & Baird, 2009) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Parenting Quality | Examiner impressions of parenting quality, including measures of responsivity, acceptance, involvement, social skills, and affect. (e.g., items adapted from HOME inventory: Infant-Toddler (IT), Bradley & Caldwell, 1984) | Time Frame: When the child is 2 - 4 years old |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Pamela Morris, Ph.D | New York University | Principal Investigator |
| Alan Mendelsohn, MD | NYU Langone Health | Principal Investigator |
| Daniel Shaw, Ph.D | University of Pittsburgh | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Bellevue Hospital Center | New York | New York | 11211 | United States | ||
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 15718881 | Background | Mendelsohn AL, Dreyer BP, Flynn V, Tomopoulos S, Rovira I, Tineo W, Pebenito C, Torres C, Torres H, Nixon AF. Use of videotaped interactions during pediatric well-child care to promote child development: a randomized, controlled trial. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2005 Feb;26(1):34-41. | |
| 16551138 | Background | Shaw DS, Dishion TJ, Supplee L, Gardner F, Arnds K. Randomized trial of a family-centered approach to the prevention of early conduct problems: 2-year effects of the family check-up in early childhood. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2006 Feb;74(1):1-9. doi: 10.1037/0022-006X.74.1.1. |
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| Release | May 8, 2026 | |
| Reset | Jun 3, 2026 |
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| Type | Includes Protocol | Includes SAP | Includes ICF | Document Label | Document Date | Document Uploaded Date | Document File Name |
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| ICF | No | No | Yes | Informed Consent Form | Aug 22, 2019 | Oct 30, 2024 |
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| Family Check Up | Behavioral | FCU utilizes home visitation to build a relationship with an interventionist who assesses family strengths and challenges and uses motivational interviewing and evidence-based family management strategies to support parent and child behavioral change. |
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| When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Child prosocial and problem behavior | Caregiver's reports of their child's behavioral problems, including externalizing and internalizing problems and prosocial behavior and social skills (e.g., Child Behavior Checklist; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000; BASC-3, Altmann et al., 2017; Infant-Toddler Social Emotional Assessment, ITSEA, Carter & Briggs-Gowan, 1993; Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment, BITSEA, Briggs-Gowan & Carter, 2006; Positive Behavior Scale, Epps et al., 2003) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Children's early language skills | Caregiver report of non-verbal communication and early expressive language (e.g., MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory; CDI, Fenson et al., 2008; Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale, CSBS, Wetherby et al., 2001) | When the child is 6 months - 2 years old |
| Child achievement | Direct assessment of children's achievement, including receptive language skills, early academic skills including, reading, math, and writing as well as oral language abilities and academic knowledge (e.g., Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Tests; ROWPVT, Martin and Brownell, 2010; Woodcock Johnson-IV Letter-Word Identification, Applied Problems and Oral Language Comprehension (WJ-IV)/ Bateria III Woodcock-Munoz, Muñoz-Sandoval et al., 2007; McGrew et al., 2014; Test of Word Reading Eficiency (TOWRE), Tarar et al., 2015) | When the child is 4 years old - 6 years old |
| Child executive functioning skills | Direct assessment of children's executive functioning, including cognitive skills, inhibitory control, and effortful control (e.g., Dimensional Change Card Sort, DCCS, Zelazo, 2006; Walk a Line, Cookie Waiting, Kochanska et al., 2000) | When the child is 4 years old - 6 years old |
| Caregiver-child relationship quality | Caregiver's reports of relationship quality, including the caregiver's perception of conflict and warmth/openness in relationship with the child (e.g., Adult Child Relationship Scale, Pianta & Steinberg, 1991) | When the child is 4 years old - 6 years old |
| Children's self-regulation | Observer reports of children's attention/emotional regulation during the direct assessment (e.g., Preschool Self-Regulation Interviewer Assessment, PSRA, Smith-Donald et al., 2007; Moffit Scale, Caspi et al., 1995) | When the child is 4 years old - 6 years old |
Caregiver's reports of their child's temperament (e.g., Infant Characteristics Questionnaire, Bates, Freeland, & Lounsbury, 1979; Children's Behavior Questionnaire, CBQ, Rothbart, 2007) |
| When the child is 6 months, 4 years old, 6 years old |
| Special services | Caregiver's reports of their child's Early Intervention referrals and services received | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Basic child health | Attendance in well-child care, growth/ nutrition | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver-child relationship quality | Caregiver's reports of relationship quality, including the caregiver's perception of conflict and warmth/openness in relationship with the child (e.g., Adult Child Relationship Scale, Pianta & Steinberg, 1991) | When the child is 18 months - 2 years old |
| Caregiver routines and activities | Caregiver's reports of routines and activities, including, play, planning, feeding, sleep and media (e.g., McEachern, Dishion, Weaver, Shaw, Wilson, Gardner, 2012; Mendelsohn et al., 2008; Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire, Thompson, A. L., et al. 2009; Parent Teacher Involvement, Kohl et al., 2000) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver relationship satisfaction | Caregiver's reports of relationship satisfaction and conflict (e.g., Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Spanier, 1976) | When the child is 6 months - 6 years old |
| Caregiver regulation of negative emotion | Caregiver's reports of their ability to maintain emotional equilibrium when faced with child rearing challenges (e.g., Raver, 2003) and difficulties with emotion regulation (Kaufman et al., 2015) | When the child is 24 months old and 6 years old |
| Caregiver confidence | Caregiver's reports of their self-efficacy and beliefs related to children's behavior and school readiness. readiness (e.g., adapted Pachter, Sheehan & Cloutier, 2000; Parenting Self-Agency Measure, PSAM, Dumka et al., 1996) | When the child is 6 months - 4 years old |
| Child narrative comprehension | Direct assessment of children's ability to understand and retell narratives, and use higher-order language (e.g., Reese et al., 2012) | When the child is 4 years old - 6 years old |
| Child Theory of Mind | Direct assessment of children's ability to mentally represent others' internal states, including measures of false belief and memory control (e.g., Mahy et al., 2017) | When the child is 4 years old |
| Caregiver Mindfulness | Caregiver's reports of mindfulness in parenting behavior (e.g., Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting, IM-P, Duncan, 2007) | When the child is 18 months old |
| Pittsburgh |
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| 15224 |
| United States |
| 18826532 | Background | Dishion TJ, Shaw D, Connell A, Gardner F, Weaver C, Wilson M. The family check-up with high-risk indigent families: preventing problem behavior by increasing parents' positive behavior support in early childhood. Child Dev. 2008 Sep-Oct;79(5):1395-414. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01195.x. |
| 21199978 | Background | Mendelsohn AL, Huberman HS, Berkule SB, Brockmeyer CA, Morrow LM, Dreyer BP. Primary care strategies for promoting parent-child interactions and school readiness in at-risk families: the Bellevue Project for Early Language, Literacy, and Education Success. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011 Jan;165(1):33-41. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.254. |
| 42129365 | Derived | Roby E. Erin Roby: ECI biocommentary. Pediatr Res. 2026 May 13. doi: 10.1038/s41390-026-05093-2. Online ahead of print. |
| 41833975 | Derived | Roby E, O'Connell LK, Griffin MG, Guevara VA, Aviles AI, Larkins BC, Guyon-Harris KL, Hunter LJ, McLoughlin M, Ndee C, Vaca-Condado L, Canfield CF, Miller EB, Mendelsohn AL, Morris-Perez PA, Shaw DS, Gross RS. Promoting early relational health and resilience in pediatric primary care: a qualitative study. Pediatr Res. 2026 Mar 15:10.1038/s41390-026-04842-7. doi: 10.1038/s41390-026-04842-7. Online ahead of print. |
| 41394760 | Derived | Roby E, Miller EB, Canfield CF, Shaw DS, Morris-Perez PA, Mendelsohn AL. Supporting Early Social-Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program. Soc Dev. 2025 Nov;34(4):e70024. doi: 10.1111/sode.70024. Epub 2025 Sep 14. |
| 36481243 | Derived | Miller EB, Roby E, Zhang Y, Coskun L, Rosas JM, Scott MA, Gutierrez J, Shaw DS, Mendelsohn AL, Morris-Perez PA. Promoting Cognitive Stimulation in Parents Across Infancy and Toddlerhood: A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Pediatr. 2023 Apr;255:159-165.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.11.013. Epub 2022 Dec 5. |
| 35775199 | Derived | Reno R, Whipps M, Wallenborn JT, Demirci J, Bogen DL, Gross RS, Mendelsohn AL, Morris PA, Shaw DS. Housing Insecurity, Housing Conditions, and Breastfeeding Behaviors for Medicaid-Eligible Families in Urban Settings. J Hum Lact. 2022 Nov;38(4):760-770. doi: 10.1177/08903344221108073. Epub 2022 Jul 1. |
| 33608413 | Derived | Roby E, Miller EB, Shaw DS, Morris P, Gill A, Bogen DL, Rosas J, Canfield CF, Hails KA, Wippick H, Honoroff J, Cates CB, Weisleder A, Chadwick KA, Raak CD, Mendelsohn AL. Improving Parent-Child Interactions in Pediatric Health Care: A Two-Site Randomized Controlled Trial. Pediatrics. 2021 Mar;147(3):e20201799. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-1799. |
| 32352828 | Derived | Canfield CF, Miller EB, Shaw DS, Morris P, Alonso A, Mendelsohn AL. Beyond language: Impacts of shared reading on parenting stress and early parent-child relational health. Dev Psychol. 2020 Jul;56(7):1305-1315. doi: 10.1037/dev0000940. Epub 2020 Apr 30. |
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| D018730 | Infant Behavior |
| D002652 | Child Behavior |
| D003863 | Depression |
| D010549 | Personal Satisfaction |
| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
| D012919 | Social Behavior |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
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