Subjective Experience of Parent-child PsychotherapyESPPRINCT05668234
Study of the Parent's Subjective Experience of Parent-child Psychotherapy.
An observational study of Subjective Experience of Parent-child Psychotherapy, run by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon at 1 site in France.
Trial summary
The child psychiatric care of children under age of 5 years involves taking care of the child, the parent and their interaction. The investigators know that the parent-child relationship plays a key role in attachment and the mental and cerebral development of the child and many studies have shown that the interaction… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 60 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Subjective Experience of Parent-child Psychotherapy
- What is being tested?
- interview
- How many people
- 20 participants
- Where
- 1 siteFrance
- Study dates
- 19 Sep 2023to Mar 2025
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 60 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult
Study population: Parents who have benefited from psychotherapy treatment
Who may be able to join
- Parent having carried out and completed parent-child psychotherapy with a child in the CHU Minjoz (child under 5 years old)
- Fluent in French.
- Not having expressed his opposition to participate.
- Affiliation to a French social security scheme or beneficiary of such affiliation.
Who cannot join
- Parent suffering from a severe and untreated psychiatric illness.
- Parent and/or dyad benefiting from psychiatric care in a day hospital and/or in full hospitalization
- Parent whose child has autism or neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity
- Subject unlikely to cooperate in the study and/or low cooperation anticipated by the investigator
- Subject without health insurance
- Pregnant woman
- Subject being in the period of exclusion from another study or declared in the "national volunteer file".
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
France1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
CHU de besançon
Besançon
Monika Szymanska, 03 81 21 93 52, mszymanska@chu-besancon.fr
About this study
Official title: Study of the Parent's Subjective Experience Following a Parent-child Psychotherapy by Interactive Guidance or Integrative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
The child psychiatric care of children under age of 5 years involves taking care of the child, the parent and their interaction. The investigators know that the parent-child relationship plays a key role in attachment and the mental and cerebral development of the child and many studies have shown that the interaction based psychotherapy allows an improvement in the symptoms of the child. The aim of this qualitative and exploratory study is to evaluate the parent's subjective experience of the parent-child psychotherapeutic treatment, i.e., evaluate their experience of the psychotherapy, their relationship with the therapist and a possible change occurring during the psychotherapy. The analysis will be based on semi-structured interviews that will be carried out with the parents.
Read the detailed description
Parent-child psychotherapy is the first-line treatment in the context of a dysfunctional parent-child interaction and takes into account both the parent's skills/fragilities, the child's modes of expression of suffering, and their relational modalities.
The care of the parent-child interaction has been the subject of many studies, but has rarely been evaluated from the point of view of the parent, even if the latter is one of the main actors in this interaction.
In France, about 50% of the parent-child psychotherapeutic treatments lead to clinical improvement. They are mainly based on the use of integrative psychodynamic psychotherapies (PPI). PPIs, based on speech, allow the therapist to identify conflicts or anxieties related to the past or present history of the parents and to relate the current troubles of the child to these conflicts of the past. This requires sufficiently significant capacities of narration and mentalization (which consists in the capacity to intellectualize one's own psychic conflicts). The literature shows that for 50% of the population, this treatment does not seem to allow engagement in care. It is important to also explore the relationship between therapist and subject, central element in psychotherapies, and the notion of therapeutic alliance from the subject's point of view. This study aims to evaluate the subjective experience of the parents, following parent-child psychotherapy. The investigaotors consider that the parents are experts in their experience and that the interviews can help them better understand the therapeutic process of the parent-child psychotherapies.
- Being tested
- interview
- Keywords
- parent-child psychotherapy, semi-structured interview
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
interviewOther
semi-directive interview
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Parents | Parent having carried out and completed parent-child psychotherapy with a child in CHU Minjoz (child under 5 years old). Receives: Other: interview |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
perception of change
Evaluate perception of change using a semi-structured interviews
Measured: 6 months
Different ability to mentalize and understand the difficulties that had led to a request for psychotherapy
Evaluate ability to mentalize and understand the difficulties that had led to a request for psychotherapy using a semi-structured interviews
Measured: 6 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted29 Dec 2022
- Study start19 Sep 2023
- Primary completionMar 2025 (estimated)
- Study completionMar 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Subjective Experience of Parent-child PsychotherapyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BesanconThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Case only
- Time perspective
- Retrospective
- Enrolment
- 20 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Monika Szymanska, PhD, Study chair, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BesanconLivia Vicentini, Study chair, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BesanconAline Chassagne, PhD, Study chair, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05668234
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2022/731
- Acronym
- ESPPRI
- Status last verified
- Sep 2024
- First submitted
- 9 Dec 2022
- Last updated
- 19 Sep 2024
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 19 Sep 2024. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Study of the Parent's Subjective Experience Following a Parent-child Psychotherapy by Interactive Guidance or Integrative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05668234
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- ESPPRI / 2022/731
- Keywords
- parent-child psychotherapy, semi-structured interview
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 20 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BesanconUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 19 Sep 2023 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Mar 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Mar 2025 (estimated)
- First posted
- 29 Dec 2022 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The child psychiatric care of children under age of 5 years involves taking care of the child, the parent and their interaction. The investigators know that the parent-child relationship plays a key role in attachment and the mental and cerebral development of the child and many studies have shown that the interaction based psychotherapy allows an improvement in the symptoms of the child. The aim of this qualitative and exploratory study is to evaluate the parent's subjective experience of the parent-child psychotherapeutic treatment, i.e., evaluate their experience of the psychotherapy, their relationship with the therapist and a possible change occurring during the psychotherapy. The analysis will be based on semi-structured interviews that will be carried out with the parents.
Detailed description
Parent-child psychotherapy is the first-line treatment in the context of a dysfunctional parent-child interaction and takes into account both the parent's skills/fragilities, the child's modes of expression of suffering, and their relational modalities.
The care of the parent-child interaction has been the subject of many studies, but has rarely been evaluated from the point of view of the parent, even if the latter is one of the main actors in this interaction.
In France, about 50% of the parent-child psychotherapeutic treatments lead to clinical improvement. They are mainly based on the use of integrative psychodynamic psychotherapies (PPI). PPIs, based on speech, allow the therapist to identify conflicts or anxieties related to the past or present history of the parents and to relate the current troubles of the child to these conflicts of the past. This requires sufficiently significant capacities of narration and mentalization (which consists in the capacity to intellectualize one's own psychic conflicts). The literature shows that for 50% of the population, this treatment does not seem to allow engagement in care. It is important to also explore the relationship between therapist and subject, central element in psychotherapies, and the notion of therapeutic alliance from the subject's point of view. This study aims to evaluate the subjective experience of the parents, following parent-child psychotherapy. The investigaotors consider that the parents are experts in their experience and that the interviews can help them better understand the therapeutic process of the parent-child psychotherapies.
Study design
- Observational model
- Case only
- Time perspective
- Retrospective
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Parents | – | Other: interviewParent having carried out and completed parent-child psychotherapy with a child in CHU Minjoz (child under 5 years old). |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 60 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
- Study population
- Parents who have benefited from psychotherapy treatment
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Parent having carried out and completed parent-child psychotherapy with a child in the CHU Minjoz (child under 5 years old)
- Fluent in French.
- Not having expressed his opposition to participate.
- Affiliation to a French social security scheme or beneficiary of such affiliation.
Key exclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Parent suffering from a severe and untreated psychiatric illness.
- Parent and/or dyad benefiting from psychiatric care in a day hospital and/or in full hospitalization
- Parent whose child has autism or neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity
- Subject unlikely to cooperate in the study and/or low cooperation anticipated by the investigator
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| interviewsemi-directive interview | Other | Parents |
Primary outcome
perception of change
Time frame: 6 months
Evaluate perception of change using a semi-structured interviews
Different ability to mentalize and understand the difficulties that had led to a request for psychotherapy
Time frame: 6 months
Evaluate ability to mentalize and understand the difficulties that had led to a request for psychotherapy using a semi-structured interviews
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 19 Sep 2024.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Monika Szymanska, PhD study chair
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Livia Vicentini study chair
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Aline Chassagne, PhD study chair
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Subjective Experience of Parent-child Psychotherapy, run by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon at 1 site in France.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 8 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 19 Sep 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Lauriane Vulliez, Pr (0381218154 ext. 0033, lvulliez@chu-besancon.fr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
perception of change (time frame: 6 months). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 19 Sep 2024.