NCT06408818

Study of an Online Program to Help Parents Talk With Their Tween Children About Health, Gender, Body-Image, and Relationships

Online Parent Media Literacy Program to Promote Preadolescent Health

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 390 (actual)
• Sponsor: Innovation Research & Training · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Parent-Child Relations
• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Media Aware Parent - Tween	Media Aware Parent - Tween, is an online program for parents of tweens ages 9-12 designed to help parents have effective conversations with their child about body image, sexual development, gender stereotypes, romantic relationships, and media.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control Resource	Parents will have access to medically-accurate information about topics such as body image, sexual development, gender stereotypes, and romantic relationships.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-06
• Primary completion: 2025-03-24
• Completion: 2025-03-24
• First posted: 2024-05-10
• Last updated: 2025-07-10
• Results posted: 2025-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States