Youth Health and Social Media

Youth Health and Social Media: Objective 2 Pilot Intervention

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Physical Activity; Sleep; Adolescent Behavior; Family and Household; Computer, Attitude to
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Family Media Use Plan; Behavioral: Media Use Resources Awareness

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 1520
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Wisconsin
    • Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705
      • University of Wisconsin Madison

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 17 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control (Track B assessed at Time 2); A survey regarding tech use, health behaviors and well-being including physical activity, anxiety, and sleep
Experimental: Online Family Media Use Plan (Track A); 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.	Behavioral: Family Media Use Plan; A tool developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics that engages teens and parent to discuss internet safety ideas and develop rules around technology use together.
Experimental: Media Use Resources Awareness (Track B assessed at Time 3); Resources offered to parents and teens that include tools and data for safe technology use among teens	Behavioral: Media Use Resources Awareness; Resources offered to parents and teens that include tools and publicly available resources for safe technology use among teens

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Technology and Media Use Rules	Increases in the number of positive responses to technology and media rules followed or maintained	4 months after initial baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in sleep behavior	Changes in sleep as measured by the 8 item Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS). Participants will assess their sleep behaviors by answering each item with "never", "seldom", "sometimes", "frequently", or "always". Items are scored from 0-4 (never= 0; seldom=1; sometimes=2; frequently=3; always=4) with a score above 16 indicating poor sleep behavior.	2 and 4 months after initial baseline (Time 2 and 3)
Changes in risk for Problematic Internet Use	Changes in problematic internet use symptoms as measured by the 18-item Problematic and Risky Internet Use Screening Scale (PRIUSS). For each item participants will select from "never", "rarely", "sometimes", "often", or "very often" in relation to their internet use over the last 6 months. Each option is coded with "never" equal to 1 and "very often" equal to 5. An overall composite score is calculated at the end, with an overall score of 25 indicating a risk for problematic internet use.	2 and 4 months after initial baseline (Time 2 and 3)

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in physical activity	Reported physical activity as measured by the 3 item Physical Activity Scale. Response options range from never (1) to 4 times or more a week (5) for each item. Higher scores indicating greater physical activity.	2 and 4 months after initial baseline (Time 2 and 3)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Collaborators: Facebook, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Megan Moreno, MD, MPH, MSeD, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Moreno MA, Binger KS, Zhao Q, Eickhoff JC. Effect of a Family Media Use Plan on Media Rule Engagement Among Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2021 Apr 1;175(4):351-358. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5629.

Helpful Links

• Family Media Use Plan

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 4, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): February 26, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 21, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): March 19, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 24, 2020
• Last Verified: November 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: internet; social media; family rules
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2018-0787; A536760 (Other Identifier: UW, Madison); SMPH/PEDIATRICS/GPAM (Other Identifier: UW, Madison)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No