Mobile Behavioral Parent Training for Childhood ADHD: Pilot Trial
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
The goal of the study is to develop and pilot a personalized behavioral parent training intervention for caregivers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The behavioral intervention will teach positive parenting through videos and quizzes that caregivers can access through a smartphone application. The program also gives parents and caregivers in-the-moment feedback their use of parenting strategies.
The main questions to answer are:
Is parenting feedback provided by a smartphone application acceptable to caregivers? Is the phone application usable and acceptable to parents and caregivers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
In the pilot trial, participants (parents/caregivers) will be randomly assigned to either (1) use the positive parenting intervention phone application (mobile Behavioral Parent Training: mBPT) or (2) use mBPT and receive brief, personalized phone prompts throughout their participation that target parenting behavior and intervention engagement.
| Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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N/A |
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Active Comparator: mBPT only
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Behavioral: Mobile Behavioral Parent Training (mBPT)
The mobile phone application includes behavioral parent training content (for example, praise, effective commands, reward systems) delivered in videos, examples, and quizzes that parents/caregivers access.
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| Experimental: mBPT and just-in-time adaptive intervention
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Behavioral: Mobile Behavioral Parent Training (mBPT)
The mobile phone application includes behavioral parent training content (for example, praise, effective commands, reward systems) delivered in videos, examples, and quizzes that parents/caregivers access.
Behavioral: Just-in-time intervention: Parenting Strategies
Parents will receive prompts via phone that provide parenting suggestions and parenting feedback when they are interacting with their child.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Intervention Engagement [Through study completion, average of 10 weeks]
Number of mobile BPT sessions completed divided by the total number of sessions available.
- Receipt of Prompts [Through study completion, average of 10 weeks]
Percent of prompts sent that were opened within 20 minutes of being sent
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Passive Audio Data- Positive Parenting [During the last 1 week of study completion]
Parenting Behavior- Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System, number of labeled praises and unlabeled praises per hour during last week of study.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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currently meets Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 diagnostic criteria for ADHD
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ages 7 -12
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has parent-reported impairment in homework performance defined as a score of 3 or greater on an Impairment Rating Scale measure (Fabiano et al., 2006) of homework performance
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has at least one parent or primary caregiver who is willing to participate and is able to access the intervention at home via smartphone.
Exclusion Criteria:
- N/A
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | Center for Children and Families of Western New York | Buffalo | New York | United States | 14226 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Florida International University
Investigators
None specified.Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 1R34MH128513