Clinical Trial: Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood

U.S., Feb. 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06241300) titled 'Executive Function and Parenting in Childhood' on Jan. 17.

Brief Summary: Deficits in executive functioning (EF) disproportionately impact children living in poverty and increase risk for psychopathology, particularly disruptive behavior disorders. This randomized clinical trial seeks to determine whether childhood EF, assessed across neural and behavioral units of analysis, is an experimental therapeutic target that can be directly modified through caregiver participation in the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), if increases in EF predict reduced disruptive behavior trajectories in low-income children over a short-term follow-up period,...