Clinical trial NCT05535387: Integrated Smart Speaker Promoting Positive Parenting Among Caregivers of Youth With Challenging Behaviors
Official title: Integrated Smart Speaker/Mobile Application to Promote Positive Parenting Among Caregivers of Youth With Challenging Behaviors
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Conduct Disorder
Lead sponsor: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc.
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2022-09-10
Enrollment: 23
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This project will develop and evaluate the feasibility of an integrated smart speaker and mobile/web-based application, "FamilyNet" (FN) to assist parents in implementing empirically supported behavioral parenting strategies to promote positive behavior change in their children. The FamilyNet system will help parents to create a positively framed, individualized behavioral plan for their child(ren), and then provide prompts, reminders, and tracking tools to help them effectively implement that plan. Once developed, FamilyNet will be field tested for usability and usefulness with a group of parents who have children ages 10-17 years exhibiting challenging behaviors. Establishing feasibility of this innovative parenting tool will have important implications for harnessing smart speaker and mobile/web technologies to provide parents in-situ support with parenting challenges; parents' effective implementation of empirically supported parenting strategies is likely to increase children's prosocial behaviors and reduce problematic behaviors, thus reducing their risk for long-term behavioral problems.

Detailed description: This project will develop and establish feasibility of an integrated smart speaker and mobile/web application, FamilyNet, designed to help parents utilize best practices in behavioral parent training to create and implement personalized behavior plans for their children. The FamilyNet system will integrate mobile app, smart speaker technology, and website technologies to assist families in creating their behavior plan, and then will track compliance, timelines, incentives, and other details to assist parents in following through and maintaining the behavior change program that they have created. After development, the intervention program will be pilot-tested with up to 35 families of youth ages 10-17 with challenging behaviors.

Primary parents will complete measures of parenting practices and child behavior prior to using the FamilyNet system, and again after having access to the program for 4 weeks. During the intervention period, user information will be tracked. Post-intervention measures will also include primary parents' perceptions of usability and acceptability of and satisfaction with the FamilyNet system. Children will also complete satisfaction questionnaires at the post- intervention assessment. Data will be analyzed to determine the degree to which families are able to utilize the FamilyNet interface and report finding it helpful.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

1. Primary parent/caregiver who has a child ages 10- to 17-years-old who lives with them at least half the time
2. Has a smartphone and access to email
3. Speaks English

Exclusion criteria:

a. The target-age child has a developmental disability severe enough that the child is unable to speak and/or follow simple directions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Emotional Problems Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Conduct Problems Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Hyperactivity Subscale
timeFrame: Time Frame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Peer Problems Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Prosocial Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 11-17 - Total Difficulties Score
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Program Acceptability - Parent Perception of Improvement
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Program Acceptability - Parent Satisfaction Subscale - Parent Report
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Program Acceptability - Child Satisfaction Subscale - Child Report
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: System Usability Scale - Parent Report
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: System Usability Scale - Child Report
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parenting Practices Inventory - Inconsistent Discipline Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Parenting Practices Inventory - Positive Reinforcement Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: CASY Child-Parent Relationship Scales - Parent-Child Conflict subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: CASY Child-Parent Relationship Scales - Positive Family Relations Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Program-Targeted Parenting Practices - Frequency Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Program-Targeted Parenting Practices - Parental Self-Efficacy Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Parent Daily Report of Child Behavior, Positive Behavior Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Parent Daily Report of Child Behavior, Negative Behavior Subscale
timeFrame: Baseline (T1), 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Families' Usage of the FamilyNet Program - Number of Families that Used the Program
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
measure: Families' Usage of the FamilyNet Program - Number of Times the Program was Used
timeFrame: At 4 weeks after baseline (T2)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Springfield
country: United States
facility: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc.
state: Oregon
Study officials:
affiliation: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc.
name: David R. Smith, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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