Clinical trial NCT06907966: Digital Support Strategies for Caregiver Home Practice
Official title: Digital Implementation Support Strategies for Caregiver Home Practice
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Acceptability
Feasibility Studies
Keywords: home practice
parenting
skills practice
Lead sponsor: Arizona State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2025-04-03
Enrollment: 48
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This project is a pilot trial of the Engaging Families home practice smartphone application (or "app") as an add on to a family-based prevention program. Although there are many evidence-based preventive interventions delivered to caregivers to prevent youth substance use and mental illness and promote youth positive family and youth outcomes, the impact of these interventions is often limited by low home practice of intervention skills among caregivers. The Engaging Families home practice app is a digital behavior change intervention that was developed to support caregivers in practicing intervention skills at home. Researchers will ask participants if the app was acceptable and feasible for daily use at home. Researchers may also compare how often caregivers who use the study app do home practice of intervention skills compared with caregivers who do not receive the home practice app but are encouraged to use an app to help schedule their activities.

Detailed description: The goals of the current pilot trial are to examine the acceptability and feasibility of the Engaging Families home practice smartphone application (or "app"). The Engaging Families app was developed and designed to support families who are already enrolled in and participating in the family-based prevention program Bridges. Families will be assigned to either receive the Engaging Families home practice app or another app to support parents' home practice of skills that they learn during the Bridges program. Acceptability and feasibility as well as preliminary effects will be assessed via survey measures. Select participants will be invited to participate in a post-intervention interview to also assess acceptability and feasibility of the app intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Informed consent
* Ownership and regular use of a smartphone
* English or Spanish language fluency
* Concurrent enrollment in the family-based EBI Bridges
* Parent of a child aged 11-17 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

- Decline to download the home practice app on their personal smartphone.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Acceptability of the intervention
timeFrame: Post-intervention, approximately 2-3 months post baseline
measure: Intervention Feasibility
timeFrame: Post-intervention, approximately 2-3 months post baseline
measure: Home practice of skills
timeFrame: 3 times during the intervention, up to 8 weeks
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Locations:
city: Tempe
country: United States
facility: Arizona State University
state: Arizona
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