NCT03065517

VillageWhere: Innovative Mobile Technology for Youth With Conduct Disorder and Their Parents

Using Mobile Technology to Enhance MST Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 226 (actual)
• Sponsor: Evidence-Based Practice Institute, Seattle, WA · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) is to develop, evaluate, and commercialize a linked parent-youth mobile app system, VillageWhere, to support the key treatment targets of evidence-based treatments for youth with conduct disorders: clear parental expectations, parental monitoring, discipline consistency, and parental support, while simultaneously cultivating intrinsic motivation in youth toward prosocial behaviors. When used in conjunction with an evidence-based treatment for delinquent youth, VillageWhere could help reduce treatment length and cost. When provided in non-evidence-based clinical settings, VillageWhere may increase access to state-of-the-art clinical techniques to those who might not otherwise receive them. Investigators will conduct usability and acceptability tests of new features with target-end-users (youth and their parents) and key stakeholders (i.e., probation officers, clinic administrators). Once usability and acceptability is achieved, investigators will conduct a 16-week randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing VillageWhere to an attention-control (placebo) mobile app. We expect that across four time points, VillageWhere use will result in greater improvements in parent management practices and youth autonomy support, parent-youth communication and connectedness, youth intrinsic motivation for positive behavior, and youth conduct problems than the placebo. The RCT will occur with 100 parent-youth dyads recruited from various treatment and probation settings, and represent clinically-significant conduct-problems of various clinically-significant severity levels.

Conditions

• Child Behavior Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	VillageWhere App	VillageWhere is a mobile phone app for use on both Android and iOS platforms by youth with conduct disorders and their parents.
DEVICE	Attention-Control Placebo App	Mobile phone app for use on both Android and iOS platforms.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-16
• Primary completion: 2020-02-28
• Completion: 2020-02-28
• First posted: 2017-02-28
• Last updated: 2022-06-02
• Results posted: 2022-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States