NCT03880383

BRIGHT Coaching Program for Families

Completed NA Last updated 18 November 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Coaching in Mental Health Wellness 1 in 306 participants. Completed in 31 March 2023.

Timeline

23 August 2018

Primary endpoint
30 September 2022

31 March 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	306
Start date	23 August 2018
Primary completion	30 September 2022
Estimated completion	31 March 2023
Sites	4 locations across Canada

Drugs / interventions tested

• Coaching
• Online parent education
• Online peer support

Conditions studied

• Mental Health Wellness 1 — all drugs for Mental Health Wellness 1 →
• Parent-Child Relations — all drugs for Parent-Child Relations →
• Child Developmental Delay — all drugs for Child Developmental Delay →
• Parenting — all drugs for Parenting →

Sponsor

McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Who can join

Adults 18 Months to 54 Months, any sex, with Mental Health Wellness 1 or Parent-Child Relations. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Children with, or at elevated risk for, brain-based developmental disabilities can experience lifelong consequences and challenges throughout their development. In particular, preschool years (3-6 years of age) can be stressful as families wait to get services and care for their child. Nationally and internationally, service delivery models during this critical period are not standardized, and differ within and across provinces and across patient conditions, leading to long wait times, service gaps and duplications.

This study has two main hypotheses:

1. A standardized approach to "coaching" (i.e. coach + online education tools + peer support network) is feasible in the real-life context, and acceptable to caregivers and can be delivered across multiple sites in urban/suburban/rural settings.
2. A standardized approach to "coaching" enhances parental health (parents' empowerment and sense of competence, quality of life, and minimizes parenting stress), family health care experience (care coordination experience and process of care) at similar health care cost (economic analysis), when compared to usual and locally available care.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. BRIGHT Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of a Developmental Coach System to Empower Families of Children With Emerging Developmental Delay.
   Majnemer A, O'Donnell M, Ogourtsova T, Kasaai B, et al · · 2019 · cited 9× · PMID 31440489 · DOI 10.3389/fped.2019.00332
2. Parent coaching program for children with emerging developmental disabilities while on a waitlist for services: cost analysis from a family payer perspective.
   Jia XY, Moretti ME, Ungar WJ, Wittmeier K, et al · · 2026 · PMID 41795079 · DOI 10.1186/s12887-026-06610-2