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Loving Habits: A Feasibility Study of a Support Program for Building New Parent-child Behavioral Habits

NCT ID: NCT07291453

Last Updated: 2025-12-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

250 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-10-04

Study Completion Date

2026-09-30

Brief Summary

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This study evaluates the feasibility and preliminary impacts of a new parent support program consisting of a series of educational videos, automatically delivered via a popular texting platform. The program content is focused on teaching parents strategies to better manage interactions with children in challenging situations many children experience, e.g., a transition to a non-preferred activity, waiting for delayed reward. Parents with children demonstrating inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive behavior and experiencing difficulties with these daily challenges are invited to participate in the study.

Detailed Description

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This study employs a pre-post, open trial design with the primary aim to investigate the feasibility of delivering parenting educational materials in an accessible format, i.e., a widely used messaging platform. The training videos demonstrate the applications of antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques in a specific situation and encourage parents to build positive parenting habits. The program usability and satisfaction will be assessed through participant ratings. The study targets parents of children demonstrating inattention, hyperactive, and impulsive behavior. These families frequently experience difficulties managing everyday routines at home, yet the access to psychosocial treatment is limited. The investigators expect parents to engage well in the program delivered via digital media. Based on the existing literature on the effectiveness of behavior parent training delivered in traditional in-person format, a moderate effect size is expected in the pre-post measures of parenting practices and the child target behavior for this study.

Conditions

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ADHD

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Following-through module

Parents will receive information about strategies during situations requiring following through on/completing tasks

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Parent Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Waiting module

Parents will receive information about strategies during situations requiring waiting

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Parent Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Overcoming challenges module

Parents will receive information about strategies during situations where a child finds it challenging to engage in tasks/behaviors, due to the the difficulty level or past failure

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Parent Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Transition module 1

Parents will receive information about strategies during situations where a child transitions from a preferred activity to a non-preferred activity over six videos.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Parent Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Transition module 2

Parents will receive information about strategies during situations where a child transitions from a preferred activity to a non-preferred activity over two videos.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Parent Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Interventions

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Behavioral Parent Training

Teaches parents antecedent- and reinforcement-based behavior management techniques and provide support to manage their stress

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- Parents with children aged 4-10 who experience difficulties in situations targeted by the program.

\*Note: The program will be advertised that it was developed targeting children demonstrating behaviors consistent with ADHD, and the ADHD symptoms will be measured pre-post. However, children are not required to have a diagnosis of ADHD or show elevated levels of ADHD symptoms for the mothers to sign up.

Exclusion Criteria

\- Parents who do not understand Japanese (the language the program is offered in).
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Emi Furukawa

Senior Staff Scientist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Onna, Okinawa, Japan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Japan

Central Contacts

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Emi Furukawa, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +81989668814

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Emi Furukawa, PhD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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HSR-2025-003

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id