Mobile Behavioral Parent Training for Childhood ADHD: Pilot Trial

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Personalizing Behavioral Parent Training: Improving Reach and Outcomes for Families of Children With ADHD

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05955274
• Other study ID #: 1R34MH128513
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2024
• Est. completion date: August 2025

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: Florida International University
• Contact: Brittany Merrill, Ph.D.
• Phone: 716-359-5773
• Email: brmerril[@]fiu.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of the study is to develop and pilot a personalized behavioral parent training intervention for caregivers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The behavioral intervention will teach positive parenting through videos and quizzes that caregivers can access through a smartphone application. The program also gives parents and caregivers in-the-moment feedback their use of parenting strategies.

The main questions to answer are:

Is parenting feedback provided by a smartphone application acceptable to caregivers? Is the phone application usable and acceptable to parents and caregivers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

In the pilot trial, participants (parents/caregivers) will be randomly assigned to either (1) use the positive parenting intervention phone application (mobile Behavioral Parent Training: mBPT) or (2) use mBPT and receive brief, personalized phone prompts throughout their participation that target parenting behavior and intervention engagement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: August 2025
• Est. primary completion date: July 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 7 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently meets Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 diagnostic criteria for ADHD

• ages 7 -12

• has parent-reported impairment in homework performance defined as a score of 3 or greater on an Impairment Rating Scale measure (Fabiano et al., 2006) of homework performance

• has at least one parent or primary caregiver who is willing to participate and is able to access the intervention at home via smartphone.

Exclusion Criteria:

• N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mobile Behavioral Parent Training (mBPT)
The mobile phone application includes behavioral parent training content (for example, praise, effective commands, reward systems) delivered in videos, examples, and quizzes that parents/caregivers access.
• Just-in-time intervention: Parenting Strategies
Parents will receive prompts via phone that provide parenting suggestions and parenting feedback when they are interacting with their child.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Center for Children and Families of Western New York	Buffalo	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Florida International University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Intervention Engagement	Number of mobile BPT sessions completed divided by the total number of sessions available.	Through study completion, average of 10 weeks
Primary	Receipt of Prompts	Percent of prompts sent that were opened within 20 minutes of being sent	Through study completion, average of 10 weeks
Secondary	Passive Audio Data- Positive Parenting	Parenting Behavior- Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System, number of labeled praises and unlabeled praises per hour during last week of study.	During the last 1 week of study completion