Parenting Stress mHealth

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-09-15

Study Completion Date

2026-07-31

Brief Summary

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Parenting stress is a well-documented barrier to youth engagement in community-based substance use treatment. The current project aims to develop and evaluate a mobile health parenting stress intervention for caregivers of justice-involved youth, a population with high rates of substance use and low rates of treatment engagement.

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Detailed Description

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Justice-involved youth exhibit high rates of substance use and mental health symptoms, yet few receive treatment during detention or community re-entry. Once released into the community, caregivers must facilitate youth's treatment engagement, mobilizing significant resources and facing many barriers (e.g., transportation, mistrust) to do so. Parenting stress, which is heightened during youth detention and community reentry, is associated with greater perceived barriers to treatment, less youth therapeutic change throughout treatment, and premature treatment dropout. Addressing parenting stress improves youth treatment engagement and outcomes among youth exhibiting antisocial behavior, yet given the many barriers to treatment, novel approaches to intervention are needed; mobile health (mHealth) technology is one promising approach. Caregivers of justice-involved youth and system stakeholders are interested in mHealth treatment and mHealth addresses instrumental barriers (e.g., transportation) to treatment. Advances in technology and community engaged research allow for active stakeholder collaboration in mHealth application development, with no technological expertise required, through participatory informatics; caregiver involvement increases the likelihood the intervention will be relevant and efficacious. The purpose of this mixed-methods K23 study is to 1) develop a mHealth parenting stress intervention using participatory informatics; 2) assess the feasibility and acceptability of the participatory informatics approach and the intervention; 3) evaluate the intervention's preliminary efficacy in reducing parenting stress and increasing youth engagement in substance use or dual diagnosis treatment post-detention through a pilot randomized controlled trial; and 4) understand systems-level factors that could influence eventual system adoption and sustainability.

Conditions

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Stress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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mHealth parenting stress app

mHealth parenting stress app intervention to reduce parenting stress and improving youth community-based treatment engagement.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

mHealth parenting stress app

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

mHealth parenting stress app intervention to reduce parenting stress and improving youth community-based treatment engagement.

Standard of care

Caregiver participants will receive an informational brochure describing ways to support one's adolescent during detention and community reentry and any other usual care.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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mHealth parenting stress app

mHealth parenting stress app intervention to reduce parenting stress and improving youth community-based treatment engagement.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Eligible caregivers must be the parent or legal guardian of a youth who is:

* currently detained in a juvenile detention center or correctional facility, mandated by the juvenile justice system to a congregate out-of-home placement (e.g., group home);
* 12-17 years old;
* has an identified substance use or substance use and co-occurring mental health need;
* and is scheduled to be released into the community to the care of the enrolled caregiver.

Eligible behavioral health providers (e.g., substance use counselor) must:

* Provide substance use or dual diagnosis treatment justice-involved youth and their caregivers,
* be over 18 years old,
* and speak English fluently.

Eligible juvenile probation officers must be:

* 18 years or older
* and speak fluent English.

Exclusion Criteria

* lack of proficiency in English
* and cognitive impairment or active psychosis which precludes provision of informed consent.

Caregivers who do not have access to a device with internet access will also not be eligible as this would preclude them from being able to participate in the mHealth intervention.

Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes