NCT06725160: PEACHY

Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth

Recruiting now NA Last updated 28 January 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Parent Coaching in Depression in 180 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

28 October 2025

Primary endpoint
1 February 2029

1 February 2029

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Pittsburgh
Phase	NA
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	basic science
Enrollment	180
Start date	28 October 2025
Primary completion	1 February 2029
Estimated completion	1 February 2029
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Parent Coaching
• Active Control — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Depression — all drugs for Depression →
• Parent-Child Relations — all drugs for Parent-Child Relations →

Sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Who can join

Adults 4 to 99, any sex, with Depression or Parent-Child Relations. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The goal of this mechanistic clinical trial is to examine whether parent-coaching aimed at increasing child positive affect will increase child neural response to reward. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Aim 1. Characterize child neural reward response and its relation to maternal socialization of positive emotions at baseline in healthy young children.

Aim 2. Evaluate how coaching-related changes in maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contribute to increases in child neural reward response over time.

Aim 3. Examine how maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contributes to increases in child neural reward response in the moment.

Participating mother-child dyads will be randomized to either 3 sessions of parent coaching of child positive affect or 3 sessions of a general parenting support intervention and neural response to reward and affective behavior will be examined pre and post intervention.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.