"The New Beginnings Podcast: A Small-scale Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting Podcast to Improve Outcomes for Children From Divorced Families"
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Feasibility of Intervention
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this study is to learn if the New Beginnings Podcast can help children whose parents are going through a divorce or separation. The podcast shares parenting strategies that have been shown to help in past in-person and online programs. This study will also look at how easy it is for parents to use the podcast and how helpful they find it.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Do parents find the podcast easy to use, helpful, and relevant?
- Does listening to the podcast improve children's mental health?
- Does the podcast help parents build stronger relationships with their children and reduce conflict between parents?
Researchers will compare families who use the podcast to families on a waitlist to see if the podcast makes a difference.
Participants will:
- Listen to podcast episodes over the course of the study
- Answer questions about their experiences with the podcast
- Complete surveys about their child's well-being, their parenting, and family relationships
This study will include 80 parents and their children.
详细描述
The adult (parent) participants who are enrolled in the randomized clinical trial will receive a podcast-based program that teaches several parenting skills that have demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness for improving child adjustment after divorce in the short- and long- term in previous randomized trials. The anticipated risks are considered minimal and reasonable in relation to the anticipated benefit of an intervention tailored to help after separation/divorce.
The child participants (aged 11-18, offspring of parent participants) will receive no direct benefits of participation but may receive indirect benefits from the proposed research through podcast-induced improvements in their parent's parenting (as described above).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •For Parents, eligibility criteria are:
- •divorced, separated, separated but never married, or divorcing/separating within the last two years;
- •one or more children between the ages of 8-18 years old;
- •have in-person contact with their child(ren) at least three hours per week or have at least one overnight visit every other week;
- •have access to a smartphone with internet that can play audio files;
- •English speaking.
- •For children, eligibility criteria are:
- •have a parent who is participating in the trial;
- •be between the ages of 8-18 and
- •have access to a computer to complete assessments. If a parent has more than one child aged 8-18 interested in participating, we will randomly select one child to ensure independence of responses.
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Podcast Program (Intervention Group)
Parents in the intervention arm will receive access to five podcast episodes based on the original New Beginnings Program. The episodes teach core parenting skills designed to improve parent-child relationship quality, enhance communication, and reduce children's exposure to interparental conflict. Each episode includes both didactic instruction and audio demonstrations of parent-child interactions.
Parents are encouraged to listen to one episode per week. Listening activity is tracked, but parents do not receive financial incentives for completing episodes. Episodes range from 10 to 25 minutes in length, and parents are encouraged to adjust the playback speed as needed to suit their preferences.
干预措施: New Beginnings Podcast Program (Behavioral)
Waitlist (Control Group)
Waitlist (Control Group): Seven weeks after the initial survey, parents will complete a post-test survey. Upon completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study, all podcast episodes will be made available to the parent.
干预措施: No Interventions (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility of Intervention
时间窗: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group Only
Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM) The FIM assesses the extent to which an intervention can be successfully used or carried out in a given context or setting (Weiner et al., 2017). It includes 4 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree). Item responses are averaged (range 1-5); higher scores indicate greater perceived feasibility. Psychometric evaluation shows acceptable reliability and validity alongside AIM and IAM.
Usability of Intervention
时间窗: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only
Intervention Usability Scale (IUS) Usability of the intervention will be assessed using the Intervention Usability Scale (IUS), a 10-item self-report questionnaire adapted from the System Usability Scale (SUS). Items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 0 to 4, with response options reflecting increasing agreement. Item scores span the full possible range (0-4). Item responses are averaged to compute a mean usability score (range 0-4), with higher scores indicating greater perceived usability. Emerging psychometrics support a two-factor structure ("Usable" and "Learnable") alongside a reliable total score (Lyon et al., 2021).
Acceptability of Intervention
时间窗: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only
Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) The AIM assesses perceived acceptability of an intervention among intended users/implementers (Weiner et al., 2017). It contains 4 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree). Scores are typically averaged (range 1-5), with higher values indicating greater acceptability. Initial development and testing demonstrated strong content validity, structural validity, reliability, known-groups validity, and responsiveness
Appropriateness of Intervention
时间窗: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only
Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM) The IAM assesses perceived appropriateness or fit of an intervention for a given setting, provider role, or target population (Weiner et al., 2017). It includes 4 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree). Item responses are averaged to produce a 1-5 score; higher values indicate the intervention is viewed as a better fit. Development work shows sound psychometric properties consistent with AIM and FIM.
次要结局
- Child Internalizing Symptoms (Child-Report)(Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7))
- Child Internalizing Symptoms (Parent-Report)(Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7))
- Child Externalizing Symptoms (Parent-Report)(Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7))
- Child Externalizing Problems (Child-Report)(Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7))
研究者
Charla Aubrey Rhodes
Co-Principal Investigator
Arizona State University