NCT06241300: EPIC

Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood

Recruiting now NA Last updated 5 December 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Chicago Parent Program in Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Childhood Onset in 180 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

20 November 2023

Primary endpoint
28 February 2028

31 March 2028

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Illinois at Chicago
Phase	NA
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	180
Start date	20 November 2023
Primary completion	28 February 2028
Estimated completion	31 March 2028
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Chicago Parent Program

Conditions studied

• Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Childhood Onset — all drugs for Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Childhood Onset →
• Disruptive Behavior — all drugs for Disruptive Behavior →
• Executive Function — all drugs for Executive Function →

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Who can join

4 and older, any sex, with Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Childhood Onset or Disruptive Behavior. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Deficits in executive functioning (EF) disproportionately impact children living in poverty and increase risk for psychopathology, particularly disruptive behavior disorders. This randomized clinical trial seeks to determine whether childhood EF, assessed across neural and behavioral units of analysis, is an experimental therapeutic target that can be directly modified through caregiver participation in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), if increases in EF predict reduced disruptive behavior trajectories in low-income children over a short-term follow-up period, and identify which CPP-driven parenting skill improvements are the most influential in modifying EF. This work will contribute new knowledge as to whether a cost-efficient parenting intervention, developed for and with low-income families raising young children in poverty, can modify EF, a neural behavioral mechanism implicated in risk for childhood disruptive behavior problems.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.