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title: Feasibility of a Positive Parenting Program for Women Experiencing Homelessness Who Have a History of Interpersonal Violence
nct_id: NCT06246773
overall_status: COMPLETED
phase: NA
sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Interpersonal Violence
countries: United States
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06246773"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2026-04-07
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# Feasibility of a Positive Parenting Program for Women Experiencing Homelessness Who Have a History of Interpersonal Violence

**Official Title:** Feasibility of a Positive Parenting Program for Women Experiencing Homelessness Who Have a History of Interpersonal Violence: A Randomized Controlled Trial

**NCT ID:** [NCT06246773](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06246773)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 28
- **Lead Sponsor:** The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- **Collaborators:** Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation
- **Conditions:** Interpersonal Violence, Homelessness
- **Start Date:** 2024-03-26
- **Completion Date:** 2025-10-24
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2026-04-07

## Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to strengthen the skills and self-efficacy of women by addressing the social and emotional trauma that they have experienced from interpersonal violence (IPRV) and homelessness and to promote positive parenting strategies through Play and Learning Strategies (PALS), an evidence based intervention.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 16 Years
- **Sex:** FEMALE
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

```
Inclusion Criteria:

* report of at least one physically violent act from a partner within the past 24 months
* have at least one child 5 years or younger.

Exclusion Criteria:

* do not speak English
* their intimate partner is physically present at the time of enrollment
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## Arms

- **Positive Parenting Program** (EXPERIMENTAL)
- **Usual Care** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR)

## Interventions

- **Positive Parenting Program** (BEHAVIORAL) — During the first week, women will receive one session of Recovering from Intimate partner violence through Strengths and Empowerment (RISE) and from week 2 they will receive RISE and PALS simultaneously. Participants will receive four to six components of RISE - education on health effects of violence, improving coping and self-care, enhancing social support, and addressing sexual violence, increase safety planning, and assist in making difficult decisions. During each of the PALS sessions, parents will receive instruction on four responsive parenting constructs: contingent responsiveness, warm sensitivity (responses include high levels of affection and understanding of child states), maintaining vs. redirecting attention to objects and topics of conversation, and verbal scaffolding .In addition to direct instruction, parents will video-record themselves interacting with their child and engage in self-reflection of their own parenting behavior.
- **Usual Care** (BEHAVIORAL) — Participants will receive services available to them at the shelter or housing facility

## Primary Outcomes

- **Change in Women's parenting stress as assessed by the Parental Stress scale (PSS)** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — This is an 18 item questionnaire and each is scored on a 5 point scale from 1(strongly disagree) to (5strongly agree) for a score range of 18-90, higher score indicating more stress
- **Change in social support as assessed by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Item Bank v 2.0 Emotional Support** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — The PROMIS emotional support tool has 16 items and the participants respond each item using a 5-point rating scale from 1(never)-5(always) a higher score indicating more emotional support
- **Change in social support as assessed by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Item Bank v 2.0 Informational Support** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — The PROMIS informational support is a 10 items and participants respond each item using a 5-point rating scale (Health Measures) anchored by 1(never)-5(always) with a higher score indicating a better outcome
- **Change in women's empowerment as assessed by the Personal Progress Scale-Revised (PPS-R)** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — PPS-R is a 28-item self-report measure on which participants rate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with each item on a 7-point scale.
- **Change in self efficacy as assessed by the General Self- Efficacy Scale (GSE)** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — GSE is a 10 item scale. Participants respond to statements such as "I can solve most problems if I invest the necessary effort" on a 4-point Likert scale anchored by 1(not at all true)-4( exactly true),the total score ranges between 10 and 40, with a higher score indicating more self-efficacy.
- **Change in parent satisfaction as assessed by the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC)** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — The PSOC is a 17-item scale and each item is rated on a 6-point Likert scale anchored by 1(strongly disagree to 6( strongly agree).A higher score indicates a higher parenting sense of competency
- **Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Infant** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — DECA (Infant) is a 33 item questionnaire for parents about their infants (1month-18 months) It is a 5 point behavior rating scale scored from never to very frequently which provides an assessment of within-child protective factors central to social and emotional health and resilience.
- **Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Toddler** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — DECA (Toddler) is a 36 item questionnaire. It is a 5 point behavior rating scale scored from never to very frequently which provides an assessment of within-child protective factors central to social and emotional health and resilience.
- **Change in children's behavior as assessed by the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)-Preschoolers** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — DECA (preschoolers) is a 38 item questionnaire. It is a 5 point behavior rating scale scored from never to very frequently which provides an assessment of within-child protective factors central to social and emotional health and resilience
- **Change in perceived parent child connectedness as assessed by the Mothers Object Relational Scale- Short Form (MORS- SF) and MORS- Child scale.** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_ — This measures mothers' perception on 2 scales: warmth and invasiveness. This is a 14 item scale and each item is scored from 0( never)-5(always).Warmth is scored by adding the scores from items 1,3,4,6,8,11,and 13, for an average score of 29 a higher score indicating more warmth.

Invasiveness is scored by adding the scores of items 2,5,7,9,10.12.and 14, an average score of 10 and higher score indicates worse outcome.

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Change in usability assessed by the System Usability Scale (SUS)** _(time frame: Baseline, immediately after intervention(about 6 weeks after baseline), One month after end of intervention and 3 months after end of intervention intervention)_

## Locations (1)

- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

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