A Scaleable Video Coaching Intervention for Opioid-using Mothers

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Substance Use; Child Behavior; Parent-Child Relations; Substance Abuse
• Interventions: Behavioral: The Healthy Toddler Program; Behavioral: Filming Interactions to Nurture Development

• Registration Number: NCT04749771
• Lead Sponsor: University of Oregon

Brief Summary

This study will adapt and evaluate a novel, innovative, and highly scalable parenting intervention that employs video coaching to target responsive parenting, Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND), among women who have been referred to or are in treatment for opioid misuse/addiction.

Detailed Description

The overall objective of this study is to conduct a randomized trial with a sample of opioid-using women who are in or have been referred for treatment through outpatient and inpatient services and have a child aged 0-36 months. We will use a longitudinal design with an active control condition to test the central hypothesis that associations between (a) increases in responsive caregiving and (b) subsequent caregiver opioid addiction recovery, psychological well-being, and child developmental and biobehavioral outcomes (secondary targets), will be partially mediated through (c) changes in caregiver executive functioning, reward responsiveness, and parent self-concept. The rationale for this work is that it simultaneously addresses the unmet needs of a large, significantly underserved population and allows for a rigorous test of our conceptual model, which specifies hypothesized underlying mechanisms and differential impact.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-08
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-11
• Study Start: 2021-06-04
• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-03-27
• Last Update Posted: 2023-03-29
• Primary Completion: 2025-05-31
• Study Completion: 2025-05-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Must be an adult (18-50 years of age)
• Must be the biological parent of a child between the ages of 0-48 months of age
• Must have received, or be currently receiving, treatment for a substance use disorder for any DSM-5 class of substance use disorder except caffeine or tobacco. This includes alcohol, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics/anxiolytics, and stimulants.
• Must have their child at least two days each week at study entry

Exclusion Criteria

• Metal implants, metal fragments, pacemakers, or other electronic medical implants
• Claustrophobic
• Weigh > 550 lbs
• Women who are or think they may be pregnant
• History of neurological disorders
• Left-handed

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
The Healthy Toddler Program (HTP)	The Healthy Toddler Program	HTP, the active control intervention, consists of weekly sessions alternating between (a) coaching sessions covering one of five domains of child development (Motor, Cognitive, Language, Play, and Social-Emotional and (b) observation sessions that will include a review of the prior coaching session and an observation and discussion of the caregiver-child interaction. This intervention will consist of 10 sessions each lasting 25-30 minutes. The coach will not engage in any filming or video coaching, but will be able to discuss caregiving concerns. HTP materials are adapted from the Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum developed by Florida State University's Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy.
Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND)	Filming Interactions to Nurture Development	FIND is a brief video coaching intervention which involves feedback provided by the coach to the caregiver using brief film clips derived from video of caregiver-child interaction. The coaching focuses on showing caregivers instances in which they are engaging in developmentally-supportive interactions during coaching sessions. FIND is delivered over 10 weekly sessions lasting 30-45 minutes. The process begins with an initial session in which the coach provides an overview, records 10-15 minutes of caregiver-child interaction, then introduces the concept of serve and return. The video is edited to show brief clips in which the caregiver is engaged in the first of five specific caregiver-based components of serve and return. The next week, the FIND coach reviews the edited clips in detail with the caregiver. Sessions continue, alternating between filming and coaching sessions until all five components have been covered sequentially.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Communicative skills assessed via the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI)	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI) are parent- report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers.; The infant form (Level I), designed for children between 8 and 18 months, contains an 89-word vocabulary checklist with separate columns for comprehension and production. There are two equivalent forms of the toddler form (Level II, Forms A and B), both designed for children between 16 and 30 months. Each form contains 100 vocabulary items.; Use appropriate norming tables for girls and boys to furnish raw score values for every 5th percentile level from the 5th to the 99th rank.
Observed Parental Self-Concept	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline)	The PSET involves visual presentation of single words or short phrases in the parenting domain (e.g., kind, supportive, enforces rules) seen under two different instruction conditions. The identity condition will ask participants to indicate via a button press whether the word or phrase describes them as a parent (left index finger = yes, right index finger = no). The control condition will ask participants to indicate via a button press whether the word or phrase is a quality that can change for a parent (yes/no). Scores are percent endorsement of developmentally-supportive (DS) and developmentally-unsupportive (DU) items in each condition. The key neural contrasts are neural activation during the presentation of (a) identity \> control trials and (b) identity-yes \> identity-no trials.
Self-report of income, occupation and financial strain via the ECHO measure (Income, Occupation, Financial Strain)	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	This measure is a 9-item self-report of income, occupation and financial strain.
Coded rate of responsive caregiving via conversational turns	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	Conversational turns is a simple coding scheme designed to record timing, quantity, and length of caregiver and child utterances.
Incidence of parenting stress via the Parent Stress Index-IV	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	Items are on a 5-point scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." Higher scores indicated greater parenting stress.; The measures includes three subscales and a total score: * Parental distress (12 items) sum score ranging between 12-60; * Parent-child dysfunctional interaction (12 items) sum score ranging between 12-60; * Difficult child (12 items) sum score ranging between 12-60; * Total score (36 items) sum score ranging between 36-180
Caregiver's perceived sense of competency in parenting via the Parent Sense of Competency scale (PSOC)	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The Parenting Sense of Competence (PSOC) questionnaire is filled out by the caregiver to assess parents' sense of competence and enjoyment of parenting. This is an adapted version of the PSOC (original PSOC has 17 items, Johnston \& Mash, 1989), with 18 items and simplified language for lower reading levels.; These items are answered on a 4-point scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." Scoring for some items is reversed so that, for all items, higher scores indicate greater parenting self-esteem. Nine (9) items (#s 2,3,4,5,8,9,13,15 and 17) on the PSOC are reverse coded.; Subscales include: Satisfaction: Mean score of 2,3,4,5,9,13,15,17, and 18 (Range = 1-4) Efficacy: Mean score of 1,6,7,8,10,11,14, and 16 (Range = 1-4) Total Score: 18 - 72, scored responses summed
Assessment of the caregivers motivation via measurement on the Behavioral Inhibition System and Behavioral Activation System (BIS/BAS) scale	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The BIS/BAS Scale is a 24-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure two motivational systems: the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and the behavioral activation system (BAS). Participants respond to each item using a 4-point Likert scale. The scale has four subscales.; One subscale corresponds to the BIS. Seven items contribute to this score. The remaining three subscales correspond to three components of BAS.; BAS Drive measures the motivation to follow one's goals. Four items contribute to this score.; BAS Reward Responsiveness measures the sensitivity to pleasant reinforcers in the environment. Four items contribute to this score.
Assessment of emotional or behavioral problems in children as assessed by the SDQ-Infant questionnaire	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire. 25 items are asked on a 3-point scale from not-true to certainly true. Followed by 5 items assessing difficulties with emotions, concentration, behavior or being able to get along with people.
Assessment of parent's warmth and hostility towards their child through the use of the Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The Iowa family interaction rating scales were used to assess parent's warmth and hostility towards their partner, their perceived warmth and hostility received from their partner, and warmth and hostility towards their child. The questionnaire is divided into 3 parts; the first 10 questions ask how you have behaved towards your partner, the next 10 ask how your partner has behaved towards you, and the final 10 questions ask how you have behaved towards your child.; There are 2 scales for each part of the questionnaire, warmth (6 items) and hostility (4 items). For both scales each item has a possible 7 responses. Each scale reverse scored and then summed by adding each item score, giving a possible range of 0-42 for the warmth scale and 0-28 for the hostility scale. Higher scores indicate higher levels of warmth/hostility respectively.
Measurement of Opioid Craving via Opioid Craving Scale	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The Opioid Craving Scale is a modification of the Cocaine Craving Scale (Weiss et al., 1995, 1997, 2003) used to measure opioid craving. The scale consists of three items rated on a visual analogue scale from 0-10
Measurement of social support via the Social Support Questionnaire	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	Measures social support, yielding scores for: * Perceived number of social supports; * Satisfaction with social support that is available Questionnaire consists of 27 items with 2-part responses (listing the people they can turn to and rely upon and how satisfied they are with the social supports).; Each item is scored based on the number of support persons listed, and the satisfaction scale scored on a scale of 1 to 6 (1 = very satisfied and 6 = very dissatisfied). The overall number and satisfaction scores are summed and divided by 27.
Self-report of commitment and support in regards to family members as assessed by the Cohesion subscale of the Family Enviornment Scale	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	The Family Environment Scale (FES) is a self-report 90-item instrument developed to assess the social climates of families focusing on the measurement and description of interpersonal relationships among family members on the directions of personal growth and the basic organizational structure of the family.; The Cohesion subscale is a 9-item scale intended to measue the degree of commitment and support that family members provide each other. Respondents rate statements on a scale from mostly true to mostly false.
Observed level of inhibitory control via the Stop Signal Task	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline)	Inhibitory control will be assessed by the Stop Signal Task (SST) during an MRI scan. The task speed adjusts based on performance and a single response time score will be outputted for each participant. The key neural measure is the degree of blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) signal during stop trials relative to go trials (i.e., the "stop \> go" contrast over the entire trial period).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of early adversity assessed via the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)	Baseline	The ACE is a 10-item measure of childhood adversity and is often used as a predicter of poorer outcomes later in life. The higher the score out of 10, the more likely for poor outcomes.; Sum the scores of all responses 1-10 for total ACE score. Reverse code the emotional neglect question, question 10, which counts as an ACE if either sub-question is answered "No." The developers suggest not including the supplemental questions in the Total ACE score. They recommend remaining true to the original ACE 10 categories so we can compare data across sites. If desired, you can sum the scores on the supplementary questions, and create a supplementary grand total to examine separately.; TotalACES=total ACE score TotalSupp=sum of supplemental questions TotalAll=Sum of ACE score and supplemental question score
Mobile Messaging for Responsive Caregiving (MMRC)	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	Caregiver's self-reported rate of responsive caregiving interactions between child and caregiver.
Intervention Dosage as assessed by number of sessions complete	Assessed at the conclusion of the intervention, directly before endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline)	Intervention Dosage is assessed by the number of completed sessions for each intervention.; Total FIND Sessions Complete = Count of sessions complete (0-10) Total HTP Sessions Complete = Count of sessions complete (0-10)
Assessment of mental health domains across psychiatric conditions via the use of the PhenX Broad Psychopathology questionnaire	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	This measure consists of 23 questions that assess 13 psychiatric domains, including depression, anger, mania, anxiety, somatic symptoms, suicidal ideation, psychosis, sleep problems, memory, repetitive thoughts and behaviors, dissociation, personality functioning, and substance use. Each item inquires about how much (or how often) the individual has been bothered by the specific symptom during the past 2 weeks.
Assessment of unpredictability and fragmentation of early-life environments in infants and children through the use of the Questionnaire of Unpredictability in Childhood (QUIC)	At Baseline	The QUIC, a reliable and valid self-report assessment of exposure to unpredictability in the social, emotional, and physical domains during early life, is a brief, comprehensive, and promising instrument for predicting risk for mental illness. The QUIC consists of an overall score and five separate subscale scores. Higher scores indicate more exposure to unpredictability in childhood. To obtain the overall score or subscale scores, reverse score select items (indicated by an R after the item number) and then calculate the sum of the items in each scale: Parental monitoring and involvement = 1R + 3R + 4R + 5R + 6R + 7R + 9R + 10R + 14R Parental predictability = 2 + 8R + 11 + 12 + 15R + 16 + 17R + 31 + 32 + 33 + 34 + 35 Parental environment = 18 + 19 + 21 + 22 + 28R + 29 + 30 Physical environment = 13 + 20 + 26 + 27 + 36R + 37 + 38 Safety and security = 23 + 24 + 25 Overall = Sum of all subscales.
Demographic information	Baseline	Demographic information including socioeconomic status, age and sex of caregiver and child, education level, race/ethnicity
Self-reported substance use and treatment history as assessed by questionnaire modified from PhenX and iOpen	Change from baseline at endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline) and 6 months post-endpoint	Questionnaire developed from PhenX and iOpen to assess substance use and treatment history.
Intervention Fidelity assessed through use of a fidelity criteria rubric	Assessed at the conclusion of the intervention, directly before endpoint (3-4 months post-baseline)	Intervention Fidelity is assessed by the number of required items completed from a checklist of required actions for the given intervention.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Oregon; 🇺🇸 Eugene, Oregon, United States