Clinical trial NCT06408818: Study of an Online Program to Help Parents Talk With Their Tween Children About Health, Gender, Body-Image, and Relationships
Official title: Online Parent Media Literacy Program to Promote Preadolescent Health
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting
Parent-Child Relations
Communication
Keywords: Preadolescent Health
Media Literacy
Parent-Child Communication
Gender Stereotypes
Body-Image
Puberty
Sexual Health
Relationship Health
Lead sponsor: Innovation Research & Training
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
First posted: 2024-05-10
Enrollment: 390
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 9
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The goal of this study is to learn if Media Aware Parent - Tween, an online program for parents of children ages 9-12, helps parents have effective conversations with their child about health and media.

Detailed description: Parent-child pairs (N=300 pairs) will be recruited to participate in a randomized controlled trial. Parent consent and parent permission and youth assent will be sought. Participant pairs will be randomized into one of two study arms: intervention and active control. All participants will complete a web-based pre-test questionnaire. Youth and parents will then receive access to their randomly assigned resource. Approximately four weeks after completing the pre-test questionnaire, all participants will complete a web-based post-test questionnaire.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The adult must be the legal guardian of a child ages 9 to 12 years old.
* The parent must be able and willing to receive email and text communication as part of the study.
* The parent-child pair must have access to a smartphone with internet connection as the resource review will be completed online in a format that is best viewed on a smartphone.
* The parent-child pair must be fluent in English as the study materials are written in English.
* The parent must indicate that they will give the child participant privacy to complete the questionnaires.
* Both the adult and child must agree to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Only one parent-child pair per family may participate in the study. If the parent has more than one child aged 9 to 12 that is willing to participate, the parent will be prompted to select the child participant based on the following: if the parent's last name begins with a letter from A to M, select the youngest eligible child willing to participate or if the parent's last name begins with a letter from N to Z, select the oldest eligible child willing to participate.
* In an effort to ensure diversity in parent gender and race/ethnicity, not all eligible pairs who are interested in participating will be enrolled in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from pretest in child report of frequency of parent-child communication
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in parent report of frequency of parent-child communication
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of general parent-child communication quality
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in parent report of general parent-child communication quality
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of parental media mediation
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in parent report of parental media mediation
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of awareness of family media rules
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in parent report of awareness of family media rules
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of acceptance of gender stereotypical roles
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of attitudes toward puberty
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
measure: Change from pretest in child report of body-esteem
timeFrame: Pretest and Posttest (about four weeks after pretest questionnaire completion)
Secondary outcomes:
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Locations:
city: Durham
country: United States
facility: innovation Research and Training
state: North Carolina
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