Youth Health and Social Media

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Family and Household; Computer, Attitude to; Adolescent Behavior; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Media Use Plan; Behavioral: Media Use Resources Awareness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03881397

2018-0787

A536760 (Other Identifier)

SMPH/PEDIATRICS/GPAM (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is test the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Family Media Use plan among teens and their parents through a randomized intervention and assess impact on outcomes including family media rules and health behavior outcomes.

Full description

For this study there will be three time points of data collection and participant contact by Qualtrics:

Time 1: Baseline

Participants (teen and parent dyads) will be randomized into one of two tracks:

Track A: Family Media Use Plan intervention Track B: Awareness intervention (delayed start intervention)

The track A group will complete a survey regarding technology rules, tech use, and health behaviors, as well as the Family Media Use Plan embedded into the survey. Track B group will only complete the baseline survey.

Time 2: Follow Up Survey: 4-6 weeks after baseline

Track A group will complete a follow-up survey similar to the baseline with additional follow-up questions around their use of the family media use plan.

The track B group will complete a similar survey and receive the Awareness Intervention, providing resources available regarding youth and media use .

Time 3: Follow Up Survey: 3-4 months after baseline

All participants will be asked to complete their corresponding tracks (track A or track B) survey again to understand use media use and health behaviors change over time.

Track A or B designated questions are labeled within each uploaded survey.

Enrollment: 1,520 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking and between the ages of 12 and 17
• Parents must be English speaking and have a child between the ages of 12 and 17

Exclusion criteria

• n/a

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,520 participants in 3 patient groups

Control (Track B assessed at Time 2)

No Intervention group

Description:

A survey regarding tech use, health behaviors and well-being including physical activity, anxiety, and sleep

Online Family Media Use Plan (Track A)

Experimental group

Description:

The Online Family Media Use Plan group will receive a link to American Academy of Pediatrics Family Media Use plan at the end of the survey, which describes internet safety ideas for teens and parents to review and create together.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Media Use Plan

Media Use Resources Awareness (Track B assessed at Time 3)

Experimental group

Description:

Resources offered to parents and teens that include tools and data for safe technology use among teens

Treatment:

Behavioral: Media Use Resources Awareness