NCT07529548

The New Beginnings Podcast: Brief Audio Intervention for Parents From Divorced and Separated Families

"The New Beginnings Podcast: A Small-scale Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting Podcast to Improve Outcomes for Children From Divorced Families"

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charla Aubrey Rhodes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to learn if the New Beginnings Podcast can help children whose parents are going through a divorce or separation. The podcast shares parenting strategies that have been shown to help in past in-person and online programs. This study will also look at how easy it is for parents to use the podcast and how helpful they find it. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Do parents find the podcast easy to use, helpful, and relevant? 2. Does listening to the podcast improve children's mental health? 3. Does the podcast help parents build stronger relationships with their children and reduce conflict between parents? Researchers will compare families who use the podcast to families on a waitlist to see if the podcast makes a difference. Participants will: 1. Listen to podcast episodes over the course of the study 2. Answer questions about their experiences with the podcast 3. Complete surveys about their child's well-being, their parenting, and family relationships This study will include 80 parents and their children.

Detailed description

The adult (parent) participants who are enrolled in the randomized clinical trial will receive a podcast-based program that teaches several parenting skills that have demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness for improving child adjustment after divorce in the short- and long- term in previous randomized trials. The anticipated risks are considered minimal and reasonable in relation to the anticipated benefit of an intervention tailored to help after separation/divorce. The child participants (aged 11-18, offspring of parent participants) will receive no direct benefits of participation but may receive indirect benefits from the proposed research through podcast-induced improvements in their parent's parenting (as described above).

Conditions

• Parent Child Relationship
• Parenting Intervention
• Parenting Behaviour
• Interparental Conflict
• Feasibility Study
• Acceptability
• Appropriateness
• Child Mental Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	New Beginnings Podcast Program	Parents will listen to 5 episodes of the New Beginnings Podcast (NBP-P) over 5 weeks. They will listen to one episode per week.
OTHER	No Interventions	Parents in the waitlist group will get access to the podcast after completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-15
• Primary completion: 2026-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2026-04-14
• Last updated: 2026-04-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States