University of California, Davis Children's Hospital, 3671 Business Dr., Ste 110, 95820, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 Apr;55(2):336-349. doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01406-8. Epub 2022 Aug 11.
Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE) is a brief intervention for children with externalizing behaviors designed to address issues with their access to and retention in treatment. A growing evidence base of open trials and comparison studies support PC-CARE's benefits, but no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of its effectiveness exist. The current study presents the first RCT of PC-CARE, a 7-session dyadic parenting intervention (trial number removed for blind review). Participants included a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 49 children (29% female) aged 2-10 years and their caregivers. Participants were randomly assigned to PC-CARE or waitlist control. Families participating in PC-CARE showed greater reductions in children's externalizing behaviors, improvements in children's adaptive skills, declines in parental stress, and increases in parents' positive communication skills, compared to families on the waitlist. The results of this first RCT of PC-CARE support the effectiveness of this brief intervention in improving children's behaviors.
父母-儿童关爱（PC-CARE）是一种针对具有外化行为的儿童的简短干预措施，旨在解决他们获得和坚持治疗的问题。越来越多的开放试验和比较研究证据支持 PC-CARE 的益处，但没有关于其有效性的随机对照试验（RCT）。本研究介绍了 PC-CARE 的首个 RCT，这是一项为期 7 节的二元父母干预（试验编号为盲审而删除）。参与者包括一个种族/民族多样化的 49 名儿童（29%为女性）及其照顾者的样本。参与者被随机分配到 PC-CARE 或候补名单对照组。与候补名单上的家庭相比，参加 PC-CARE 的家庭在儿童的外化行为、儿童适应技能的提高、父母压力的降低以及父母积极沟通技巧的增加方面显示出更大的减少。这项 PC-CARE 的首个 RCT 的结果支持这种简短干预措施在改善儿童行为方面的有效性。
