Feasibility Study of a Web-based Program to Help Parents of Middle School Students Effectively Communicate With Their Children About Substance Use

NCT ID: NCT05900115

Last Updated: 2024-10-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 576 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-05-08
• Study Completion Date: 2023-11-29

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a web-based program for parents of middle school aged students. 286 parents and their child in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade will be asked to each complete two online questionnaires over the course of about a month, parents will also complete a web-based program between questionnaires. Researchers will compare the intervention and an active control to test the intervention program efficacy for improving outcomes related to parent-child communication, media message processing, and adolescent health.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and assess a self-administered, web-based program designed to increase parent knowledge about adolescent substance use, active media mediation skills, and practice high-quality parent-adolescent communication methods. The program will help parents of middle-school aged students, 6th-8th graders, communicate effectively about substance use and enhance media literacy skills to counter unhealthy media messages. Prevention efforts are most impacting for adolescents in middle school years as this is the time frame for growing independence, desire to fit-in and an increase risk for their own experimentation with substances.

Conditions

Substance Use; Parenting; Communication

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Web-based intervention

The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Media Ready Parent

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.

Active Control Program

The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Active Control Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.

Interventions

Media Ready Parent

The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Active Control Program

The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• The adult must be the legal guardian of a child in 6th, 7th or 8th grade (known hereafter as "parent").
• The parent must be able and willing to receive email and text communication as part of the study.
• The parent-child pair must have access to a smartphone with internet connection as the resource review will be completed online in a format that is best viewed on a smartphone.
• The parent-child pair must be fluent in English as the study materials are conducted in English.
• The parent must indicate that they will give the child participant privacy to complete the questionnaires
• Both the adult and child must agree to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

• In an effort to ensure diversity in parent gender and race/ethnicity, not all eligible pairs who are interested in participating will be enrolled in the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Innovation Research & Training

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

innovation Research and Training

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

5R21DA052737-02

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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MiddleYearsStudyR21-23-003-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id