Mobile Behavioral Parent Training for Childhood ADHD: Pilot Trial

Florida International University56 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

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.

Just-in-time intervention: Parenting StrategiesBEHAVIORAL

Parents will receive prompts via phone that provide parenting suggestions and parenting feedback when they are interacting with their child.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 7 YearsMax age: 12 Years

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Inclusion Criteria: * currently meets Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 diagnostic criteria for ADHD * ages 7 -12 * 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

Locations (1)

Center for Children and Families of Western New York

Buffalo, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Intervention Engagement

Number of mobile BPT sessions completed divided by the total number of sessions available.

Time frame: Through study completion, average of 10 weeks

Receipt of Prompts

Percent of prompts sent that were opened within 20 minutes of being sent

Time frame: Through study completion, average of 10 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Passive Audio Data- Positive Parenting

Parenting Behavior- Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System, number of labeled praises and unlabeled praises per hour during last week of study.

Time frame: During the last 1 week of study completion

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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