Clinical Trial: Group-based Training for Parents of Children With Dyslexia
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Evaluation of a Group-based Training for Parents of Children With Dyslexia
Brief Summary:
Children with dyslexia show a variety of comorbid disorders like behavior and adaptive disorders, hyperkinetic and anxiety disorders. Raising and educating a child with dyslexia is a challenging task for parents. Studies show that parents of children with dyslexia suffer under depressive symptoms and higher parenting stress. In order to support the child's academic development many parents of children with dyslexia practice reading and writing more often and show controlling and maladaptive behavior. As a result learning motivation of the child decreases and later homework situations are influenced in a negative way.
Consequently, it is necessary to provide parent training on appropriate behavior with homework and academic exercises, in order to raise parent's competences, reduce parenting stress and promote learning motivation of the child. In the German-speaking area there is a lack of elaborated and evaluated programs for parents of dyslexic children. Therefore, a group program that especially addresses the needs of these parents was devised. The study aims at evaluating the effects of the parent training. We hypothesize that the treatment reduces parenting stress and raises competences of the parents.
Forty-one mothers of third graders with dyslexia were randomly assigned to the group-based parent training program (N=25) or a waiting list control group (N=16). Only children who performed in the normal range on the test measuring cognitive abilities (IQ > 70) and who scored below average in at least one test measuring reading or writing (T-Score < 40) were included. Children with significant deficits in hearing or vision, pervasive developmental disorder or genetic disorders were excluded. Data of children and their mothers were collected prior to intervention, directly after intervention and three months after in
Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: University of Heidelberg Medical Center
Current Primary Outcome: Change from Baseline in Parenting Stress Index at 12 weeks [ Time Frame: 20 weeks ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome: Change in Baseline in Parenting Stress Index at 36 weeks [ Time Frame: 36 weeks ]
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: University of Heidelberg Medical Center
Dates:
Date Received: April 3, 2014
Date Started: January 2012
Date Completion: October 2014
Last Updated: April 3, 2014
Last Verified: April 2014
