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Study of an Online Program to Help Parents Talk With Their Tween Children About Health, Gender, Body-Image, and Relationships

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Status

Completed

Conditions

Parenting
Parent-Child Relations
Communication

Treatments

Behavioral: Active Control Resource
Behavioral: Media Aware Parent - Tween

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT06408818
TweenHealthStudy-R21-23-006-01
5R21HD108440-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to learn if Media Aware Parent - Tween, an online program for parents of children ages 9-12, helps parents have effective conversations with their child about health and media.

Full description

Parent-child pairs (N=300 pairs) will be recruited to participate in a randomized controlled trial. Parent consent and parent permission and youth assent will be sought. Participant pairs will be randomized into one of two study arms: intervention and active control. All participants will complete a web-based pre-test questionnaire. Youth and parents will then receive access to their randomly assigned resource. Approximately four weeks after completing the pre-test questionnaire, all participants will complete a web-based post-test questionnaire.

Enrollment

390 patients

Sex

All

Ages

9+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • The adult must be the legal guardian of a child ages 9 to 12 years old.
  • 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 written 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

  • Only one parent-child pair per family may participate in the study. If the parent has more than one child aged 9 to 12 that is willing to participate, the parent will be prompted to select the child participant based on the following: if the parent's last name begins with a letter from A to M, select the youngest eligible child willing to participate or if the parent's last name begins with a letter from N to Z, select the oldest eligible child willing to participate.
  • 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.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

390 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Program: Media Aware Parent -Tween
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will have access to an intervention between pre-test and post-test assessments. The intervention, Media Aware Parent -Tween, is an online program for parents of tweens ages 9-12 designed to help parents have effective conversations with their child about body image, sexual development, gender stereotypes, romantic relationships, and media.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Media Aware Parent - Tween
Active Control Resource
Active Comparator group
Description:
Parents will have access to medically-accurate information about topics such as body image, sexual development, gender stereotypes, and romantic relationships.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Active Control Resource

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Tracy M Scull, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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