SIB-Time Web-application Tool for Typically Developing Siblings (SIBTime)

Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies

Status: Completed

Conditions: Family Relations; Sibling Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: SIB-Time Web-Application Tool

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04633473

MD015947

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the United States, over 32.7 million people have special health, developmental, and mental health concerns. Most of these people have typically developing brothers and sisters. Across the lifespan, siblings share high levels of involvement in each other's lives, and also many of the concerns that parents of children with special needs experience, including isolation, a need for information, concerns about the future, and caregiving demands. Brothers and sisters also face issues that are uniquely theirs including emotions (resentment, worry, embarrassment, guilt), peer issues, and family communication challenges. The team of researchers, developers, and consultants built and tested an assistive media enhanced web-application tool for developing knowledge, skills, and routines for attending to TD siblings' (ages 3-5) social-emotional health and well-being.

Full description

The investigators conducted a 4-week intervention to assess the English/Spanish, media-enhanced SIBTime web-application tool in terms of its relevance, acceptability, cultural appropriateness, and potential for efficacy to deliver a family-based intervention. The test used a within subjects pre-post design to detect changes in parent self-efficacy, family cohesion, and knowledge, and parent rating of sibling-parent relationship. Additionally, the investigators collected a post-test evaluation of consumer satisfaction and recommendations for modifications to the program.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Be the primary parent/guardian of a child with a disability
• Also be the primary parent/guardian of a typically developing child, 3-5 years old
• Speak English or Spanish
• Have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 1 patient group

SIBTime

Experimental group

Description:

43 primary parents were assessed at enrollment, then provided the dual-language, media-enhanced SIBTime technology for 4 weeks, and then re-assessed at 4 weeks (after treatment completion).

Treatment:

Behavioral: SIB-Time Web-Application Tool