Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07303062

20-3652

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to learn if a parenting program called Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE) can help parents have more confidence in parenting their teen and improve their knowledge about normal teen development and teen mental health. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the AMP-CARE parenting program improve confidence in teen parenting and positive parenting?
• Does the AMP-CARE parenting program improve parent knowledge about mental health?

Researchers will compare participants who complete the parenting program to those who do not.

Participants will:

• Complete 2 surveys, one at the start of the study and one 6 -12 weeks later
• Half of the participants will be randomly picked to attend the 6 virtual AMP-CARE sessions right away.
• The other half will have the opportunity to attend AMP-CARE after they complete the second survey.

Full description

In this randomized controlled trial, 60 parents of teens, ages 11-14 years, will be randomized to either AMP-CARE or wait-list control to achieve the following aims:

AIM 1. To measure the impact of AMP-CARE on parent mental health literacy as measured by the Parental Child Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire (PCMHLQ).

AIM 2: To measure the impact of AMP-CARE on parenting self-efficacy as measured by the Parenting Self Efficacy Scale.

AIM 3: To measure the impact of AMP-CARE on promotive parenting practices assessed by the Positive Parenting and Parental Involvement subscales of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent or guardian of teen age 11-14 years
• Receiving primary care at selected study sites
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Parents of children with severe mental illness (indicated by psychiatric hospitalization in the last 12 months or previous diagnosis of psychosis)
• Parents of children with severe developmental delay (indicated by prior diagnosis of severe neurodevelopmental impairment, global developmental delay, severe expressive language delay)
• Not available at time group is scheduled

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

AMP-CARE

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will attend the 6 virtual sessions with a group of about 5-10 parents and 2 facilitators. The AMP-CARE group sessions are held for about 90 minutes once per week. Sessions include didactics, role playing, vignettes, and weekly home practice to build positive parenting techniques.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE)

Waitlist Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents in the control group will be offered the intervention after completing the second study questionnaire.