NCT05900115

Feasibility Study of a Web-based Program to Help Parents of Middle School Students Effectively Communicate With Their Children About Substance Use

The Middle Years Study: A Feasibility Study of a Self-paced Program Designed to Provide Parents of Middle School-aged Students With Knowledge About Teen Substance Use and Practice in High Quality Parent-adolescent Communication Methods Delivered Through a Highly Interactive Web-based Software Application

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 576 (actual)
• Sponsor: Innovation Research & Training · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a web-based program for parents of middle school aged students. 286 parents and their child in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade will be asked to each complete two online questionnaires over the course of about a month, parents will also complete a web-based program between questionnaires. Researchers will compare the intervention and an active control to test the intervention program efficacy for improving outcomes related to parent-child communication, media message processing, and adolescent health.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and assess a self-administered, web-based program designed to increase parent knowledge about adolescent substance use, active media mediation skills, and practice high-quality parent-adolescent communication methods. The program will help parents of middle-school aged students, 6th-8th graders, communicate effectively about substance use and enhance media literacy skills to counter unhealthy media messages. Prevention efforts are most impacting for adolescents in middle school years as this is the time frame for growing independence, desire to fit-in and an increase risk for their own experimentation with substances.

Conditions

• Substance Use
• Parenting
• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Media Ready Parent	The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control Program	The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-08
• Primary completion: 2023-11-29
• Completion: 2023-11-29
• First posted: 2023-06-12
• Last updated: 2024-10-23
• Results posted: 2024-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States