NCT05344885

A Pilot Trial Examining Digital Parent Training Programs

Examining the Impact of Intervention Design in Digital Parent Training for Child's Disruptive Behaviors: A Pilot Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Haifa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this pilot study is to preliminary examine the impact of a design mechanism aimed at increasing engagement in an unguided digital parent training program for child's behavior problems. Parents will be enrolled into one of two digital parent training intervention arms, dedifferentiated by their level of correspondence with the related deign mechanism.

Detailed description

The purpose of this pilot study is to preliminary examine the impact of a design mechanism aimed at increasing engagement in an unguided digital parent training program for child's behavior problems. The design mechanism manipulated in this pilot relates to the extent to which program design promotes a positive behavior change. To achieve these goal two unguided digital parent training interventions, differentiated by their level of design (DPT-Standard vs. DPT-Enhanced), will be tested. This pilot aims to recruit 40-60 parents who report behavior problems in their children who will randomly receive one of the two interventions for 10 weeks. The impact of DPT-E on user engagement and reported child behavior problems will be assessed based on comparison with DPT-Standard. Parental behaviors and sense of competence will be collected to assess the impact of intervention design on these mechanisms of change. In addition, the role of parents' motivation, and their ability to invest effort in making changes during the intervention will be assessed, to examine whether these variables moderate the impact of intervention's design on the aforementioned relationships. The investigators also aim to explore whether the relationship between usage and clinical outcomes is stronger in those using DPT-E compared with DPT-Standard.

Conditions

• Child Behavior Problem
• Parenting
• Engagement, Patient

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	DPT-Standard	The parent training intervention includes 7 modules, recommended to be completed within 7- to 10-weeks period. Module's content includes videos and texts guiding the parent through the training process; interactive features, such as multiple-choice questions with direct feedback. Additional features embedded within the platform include downloadable materials, and a Q\&A section that contains frequently asked questions.
BEHAVIORAL	DPT-Enhanced	DPT-Enhanced will include all the ingredients of DPT-Standard, but with additional features. The program itself is based on pre-defined decision rules that are either event or time based based on evidence based practice in promoting effective parental engagement. Each component includes a short learning phase, followed by a 1-2 week focusing phase. The focusing phase is designed to encourage and help parents to practice and acquire learned skills in their day-to-day lives, by making these skills more salient in their mind.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-28
• Primary completion: 2022-11-14
• Completion: 2022-11-14
• First posted: 2022-04-25
• Last updated: 2023-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel