Clinical trial NCT06305429: Encouraging Positive Parenting Habits
Official title: Encouraging Positive Parenting Habits Through Digital Media: Feasibility Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: ADHD
Keywords: ADHD
Parent Training
Treatment Access
Lead sponsor: D'Or Institute for Research and Education
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
First posted: 2024-03-12
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 4
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Open, single-group trial
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study evaluates the feasibility and preliminary impacts of a new parenting program consisting of a series of educational videos, automatically delivered via a popular texting platform. The program content for the feasibility study is focused on teaching parents strategies to better manage one of the commonly reported challenges that children face, a transition to a non-preferred activity. Parents with young children experiencing behavior difficulties with daily transition routines are invited to participate in the study.

Detailed description: This feasibility study employs a pre-post, open trial design with the primary aim to investigate the feasibility of the automated delivery of parenting educational materials via a widely used texting 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 daily interactions of the participants with the program and post-program questionnaires. The study targets parents of children demonstrating behavioral difficulties managing everyday routines at home, while having difficulty accessing traditional forms of psychosocial treatment. In particular, children of ADHD often experience these difficulties, potential participants are informed that the program is for children demonstrating behaviors consistent with ADHD, and ADHD symptoms will be evaluated pre- and post-program participation, although the presence of the disorder will not be required for the program participation. 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, the investigators expect a moderate effect size in the pre-post measures of parenting practices and the child target behavior for this study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parents of children aged from 4 to 10 years old
* Parents experiencing behavior difficulties with daily transition routines (parent-report).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Parents that do not have the children living with them at least 5 days per week every week;

  * While participating parents are informed that the program was developed for children demonstrating symptoms of ADHD, the low symptom number will not be used as an exclusion criteria.

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: Inconsistent parenting
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Use of physical control
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Hostility toward child
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Parent Stress
timeFrame: 1 month
Other outcomes:
measure: ADHD symptoms
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: ODD symptoms
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Irritability
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Proactive parenting
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Use of positive reinforcement
timeFrame: 1 month
Locations:
city: Brazil
country: Brazil
facility: Instituto D&#39;or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR)
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