Disruptive BehaviorsPCITNCT07887295
Hybrid Pilot of Personalized Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
A study testing Behavioral Parent Training in people with Disruptive Behaviors, run by San Diego State University at 2 sites in United States.
Trial summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a personalized version of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), called MY PCIT, can improve treatment fit, treatment participation, and outcomes for young children with behavior problems and their caregivers. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 2 to 6 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Disruptive Behaviors
- What is being tested?
- Behavioral Parent Training
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 60 participants
- Where
- 2 sitesUnited States
- Study dates
- Apr 2027to Mar 2030
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
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 2 to 6 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Caregiver 18 years or over
- Caregiver seeking therapy for a child with behavior problems through a community mental health service agency that is participating in the study
- Families are determined to be appropriate for the study by the participating community mental health service agency.
- Child 2-6 years of age
- Child has an ECBI intensity score in the clinical range
Who cannot join
None listed.
Trial locations and contacts
2 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States2 sites
San Diego Center for Children
San Diego, California, 92111
May Yeh, PhD, 619-594-2838, myeh@sdsu.edu
Rady Children's Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry
San Diego, California, 92123
May Yeh, PhD, 619-594-2838, myeh@sdsu.edu
About this study
Official title: Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot of Personalized PCIT In Community Mental Health Settings
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a personalized version of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), called MY PCIT, can improve treatment fit, treatment participation, and outcomes for young children with behavior problems and their caregivers. The main questions this study aims to answer are:
- How does standard PCIT compare to MY PCIT in keeping families engaged in treatment and improving treatment outcomes?
- How does standard PCIT compare to MY PCIT in aligning treatment and families' beliefs and values?
Read more
Researchers will compare standard PCIT to MY PCIT to learn how the personalized approach can be delivered in community mental health settings, and whether it may improve treatment fit, reduce treatment dropout, and improve outcomes for children and their caregivers.
Participating families will:
- Receive standard PCIT or MY PCIT
- Complete four sets of online surveys: one before treatment, two during treatment, and one after treatment
The surveys will ask about the child's behavior and the family's beliefs, values, and treatment experiences. Researchers will also gather feedback from therapists to help improve how MY PCIT can be delivered and sustained in community mental health sites.
- Conditions
- Disruptive Behaviors
- Being tested
- Behavioral Parent Training
- Keywords
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Personalized Treatment, Behavioral Parent Training, Community Mental Health Settings, Behavior Problems
- Medical subject headings
- Problem Behavior, Mental Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Behavioral Parent TrainingBehavioural
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Standard PCIT | Active comparator | Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a behavioral parent training intervention developed by Dr. Sheila Eyberg for young children (aged 2-7) with disruptive behavior problems. It is a well-established, evidence-based intervention that uses a live coaching model in which therapists use a one-way mirror or similar set-up to coach parents in specialized parenting skills in their interactions with their children. The intervention involves 2 segments: (1) Child Directed Interaction (CDI) focuses upon developing a positive, warm relationship between parent and child and using selective attention effectively. (2) Parent Directed Interaction (PDI) focuses upon teaching parents how to provide consistent and effective discipline. Receives: Behavioral: Behavioral Parent Training |
| MY PCIT (a personalized version of PCIT) | Experimental | MY PCIT is a version of PCIT that is personalized to each family with the aim to increase the match between the treatment's beliefs/values and the family's beliefs/values. MY PCIT includes an assessment of parental beliefs/values that will then guide adaptations to the delivery of PCIT. Receives: Behavioral: Behavioral Parent Training |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Therapist Weekly Check-In
Measured: Weekly from the start of treatment (week 1) to post-treatment (an estimated average of week 14)
Fidelity to PCIT and Fidelity to MY PCIT
Fidelity to PCIT will be assessed across both conditions using previously validated measures developed by Dr. Eyberg for use with PCIT (Eyberg \& Members of the Child Study Laboratory, 1999). Independent coders, masked to condition, will score treatment fidelity via videotape observation. Fidelity to MY PCIT will also be assessed using procedures previously developed.
Measured: Weekly from the start of treatment (week 1) to post-treatment (an estimated average of week 14)
My Thoughts about Therapy (MTT)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 3. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 4. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Secondary outcomes (4)
Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System-IV (DPICS)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Parenting Stress Index (PSI)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Therapy Attitude Inventory (TAI)
Measured: 1. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 2. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 3. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Parent Explanatory Model - Treatment Explanatory Model Match (PEM-TEM Match)
Measured: 1. Baseline 2. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 3. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 4. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted21 Oct 2026
- Study startApr 2027 (estimated)
- Primary completionDec 2028 (estimated)
- Study completionMar 2030 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Disruptive BehaviorsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- 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
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- San Diego State University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- May Yeh, Principal investigator, San Diego State University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07887295
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- IRB-26-179
- Other IDs
- R01MH144540
- Acronym
- PCIT
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 1 Oct 2026
- Last updated
- 21 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: De-identified data will be submitted to the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) in accordance with applicable NIH and NIMH data-sharing requirements.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 21 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot of Personalized PCIT In Community Mental Health Settings
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07887295
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PCIT / IRB-26-179
- Conditions
- Disruptive Behaviors
- Keywords
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Personalized Treatment, Behavioral Parent Training, Community Mental Health Settings, Behavior Problems
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- San Diego State UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Study start
- Apr 2027 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- Dec 2028 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Mar 2030 (estimated)
- First posted
- 21 Oct 2026 (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 goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a personalized version of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), called MY PCIT, can improve treatment fit, treatment participation, and outcomes for young children with behavior problems and their caregivers. The main questions this study aims to answer are:
- How does standard PCIT compare to MY PCIT in keeping families engaged in treatment and improving treatment outcomes?
- How does standard PCIT compare to MY PCIT in aligning treatment and families' beliefs and values?
Researchers will compare standard PCIT to MY PCIT to learn how the personalized approach can be delivered in community mental health settings, and whether it may improve treatment fit, reduce treatment dropout, and improve outcomes for children and their caregivers.
Participating families will:
- Receive standard PCIT or MY PCIT
- Complete four sets of online surveys: one before treatment, two during treatment, and one after treatment
The surveys will ask about the child's behavior and the family's beliefs, values, and treatment experiences. Researchers will also gather feedback from therapists to help improve how MY PCIT can be delivered and sustained in community mental health sites.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Standard PCIT | Active comparator | Behavioral: Behavioral Parent TrainingParent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a behavioral parent training intervention developed by Dr. Sheila Eyberg for young children (aged 2-7) with disruptive behavior problems. It is a well-established, evidence-based intervention that uses a live coaching model in which therapists use a one-way mirror or similar set-up to coach parents in specialized parenting skills in their interactions with their children. The intervention involves 2 segments: (1) Child Directed Interaction (CDI) focuses upon developing a positive, warm relationship between parent and child and using selective attention effectively. (2) Parent Directed Interaction (PDI) focuses upon teaching parents how to provide consistent and effective discipline. |
| MY PCIT (a personalized version of PCIT) | Experimental | Behavioral: Behavioral Parent TrainingMY PCIT is a version of PCIT that is personalized to each family with the aim to increase the match between the treatment's beliefs/values and the family's beliefs/values. MY PCIT includes an assessment of parental beliefs/values that will then guide adaptations to the delivery of PCIT. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 2 to 6 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (5 listed)
- Caregiver 18 years or over
- Caregiver seeking therapy for a child with behavior problems through a community mental health service agency that is participating in the study
- Families are determined to be appropriate for the study by the participating community mental health service agency.
- Child 2-6 years of age
- Child has an ECBI intensity score in the clinical range
Key exclusion criteria (0 listed)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Parent TrainingParent-Child Interaction Therapy | Behavioural | MY PCIT (a personalized version of PCIT), Standard PCIT |
Primary outcome
Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Therapist Weekly Check-In
Time frame: Weekly from the start of treatment (week 1) to post-treatment (an estimated average of week 14)
Fidelity to PCIT and Fidelity to MY PCIT
Time frame: Weekly from the start of treatment (week 1) to post-treatment (an estimated average of week 14)
Fidelity to PCIT will be assessed across both conditions using previously validated measures developed by Dr. Eyberg for use with PCIT (Eyberg \& Members of the Child Study Laboratory, 1999). Independent coders, masked to condition, will score treatment fidelity via videotape observation. Fidelity to MY PCIT will also be assessed using procedures previously developed.
My Thoughts about Therapy (MTT)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 3. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 4. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
4 secondary outcomes
Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System-IV (DPICS)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Parenting Stress Index (PSI)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Therapy Attitude Inventory (TAI)
Time frame: 1. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 2. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 3. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Parent Explanatory Model - Treatment Explanatory Model Match (PEM-TEM Match)
Time frame: 1. Baseline 2. After CDI Teach (Week 1) 3. After PDI Teach (on average week 8) 4. Post-treatment (on average week 14)
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 21 Oct 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. De-identified data will be submitted to the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) in accordance with applicable NIH and NIMH data-sharing requirements.
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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.
May Yeh principal investigator
San Diego State University
2 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Behavioral Parent Training in people with Disruptive Behaviors, run by San Diego State University at 2 sites in United States.
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 5 inclusion and 0 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: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 2 sites in United States. 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?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact May Yeh, PhD (619-594-2838, myeh@sdsu.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) (time frame: 1. Baseline 2. Post-treatment (on average week 14)). The study lists 5 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 21 Oct 2026.