Clinical trial NCT06297135: A Feasibility Study of a Support Program for Building New Parent-child Behavioral Habits
Official title: Loving Habits: A Feasibility Study of a Support Program for Building New Parent-child Behavioral Habits
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: ADHD
Lead sponsor: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Miyazaki International College
name: Japan society for the promotion of science
First posted: 2024-03-07
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study evaluates the feasibility and preliminary impacts of a new parent support program consisting of a series of educational videos, delivered via a popular texting platform. For this pilot project, the program content is focused on teaching parents strategies to better manage one of the commonly reported challenges children face, a transition to a non-preferred activity. Parents with children demonstrating inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive behavior and experiencing difficulties with daily transition routines are invited to participate in the study.

Detailed description: This pilot study employs a pre-post, open trial design with the primary aim to investigate the feasibility of delivering parenting educational materials in an accessible format, i.e., a widely used testing platform. The training videos demonstrate the applications of antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques in a specific situation and encourage parents to build positive parenting habits. The program usability and satisfaction will be assessed through participant ratings. The study targets parents of children demonstrating inattention, hyperactive, and impulsive behavior. These families frequently experience difficulties managing everyday routines at home, yet the access to psychosocial treatment is limited. The investigators expect parents to engage well in the program delivered via digital media. Based on the existing literature on the effectiveness of behavior parent training delivered in traditional in-person format, a moderate effect size is expected in the pre-post measures of parenting practices and the child target behavior for this study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Parents with children aged 4-10, who experience difficulties with transitions. The program will be advertised that it was developed targeting children demonstrating behaviors consistent with ADHD, and the ADHD symptoms will be measured pre-post. However, children are not required to have a diagnosis of ADHD or show elevated levels of ADHD symptoms for the parents to sign up.

Exclusion Criteria:

Parents who do not understand Japanese (the language the program is offered in).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of videos viewed
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Percentage of completed daily ratings
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Participant satisfaction
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parent-rated child's difficulties with daily transitions
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Parent-rated child's impairment related to transition difficulties
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Positive parenting
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Negative parenting
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Parenting stress
timeFrame: 1 month
Other outcomes:
measure: ADHD symptoms
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: ODD symptoms
timeFrame: 1 month
Locations:
city: Onna
country: Japan
facility: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
state: Okinawa
city: Miyazaki
country: Japan
facility: Miyazaki International College
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