Digital Universal Parenting Program for Positive Parenting Behaviors

The goal of this study is to evaluate use and feasibility of digitally-delivered universal parenting program, which aims to promote positive parenting among guardians with 3 years-old children.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Parenting
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Digitally Delivered Parent Training

Detailed Description

The study will use a single-arm study design.The participants will use the universal parenting program for 8-weeks.

The intervention is a digital parent training program which focuses on positive parenting and encouraging to develop parenting skills that strengthen the relationships and communication with their children. The topics includes for example reinforcing child´s positive behavior, reducing conflict situations and planning situations advanced, managing daily transitions, and being present to child. The program includes 5 themes with recommended length of 1 week each. Each theme includes theory material, videos, examples, video practices and exercises. The program is fully digital and provided in a dynamic, web-based format. SMS and email reminders will be sent regularly during the program.

Recruitment: All parents with a 3-year old child who is participating in annual health checkup in child health clinic are considered eligible to the study and are asked to participate if they fulfil inclusion criteria and do not meet the exclusion criteria.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 1500
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Kaisa Mishina, PhD; Phone Number: 358503101358; Email: kaemka@utu.fi

Study Locations

• Finland
  • Turku, Finland
    • Recruiting
    • Kaisa Mishina
    • Contact: Kaisa Mishina
  • Turku, Finland
    • Recruiting
    • Wellbeing service counties
    • Contact: Kaisa Mishina

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Guardians having a child aged 3 years participating to annual health checkup in child health clinic.
• At least one of the guardians is able to understand the languages that intervention is provided in

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to read Finnish, Swedish, or English, as these are the languages that the intervention is provided in.
• No internet access

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; Participants assigned to this condition will receive the 8-weeks intervention	Behavioral: Digitally Delivered Parent Training; The intervention is a universal, digitally delivered parenting program, including 5 themes with recommended length of 1 week each. The total length of the intervention is 8 weeks. The program focuses on positive parenting, encouraging to develop parenting skills that strengthen their relationships and communication with their children.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Child´s affective reactivity	The Affective Reactivity Index (ARI-P)	From baseline to 8-weeks follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Behaviour of the child	10 questions about child´s behavior, focusing especially for child´s hyperactivity and conduct problems.	From baseline to 8-weeks follow-up
Daily activities	A questionnaire adapted from the Barkley Home Situations Questionnaire, which asks the parent to rate whether the child's behavior causes problems during specified daily routines	From baseline up to 8-weeks
Completion rates	Completion and non-completion of the intervention for eight-week period by using the data recorded of the intervention platform	From baseline up to 8-weeks
Intervention satisfaction	Questions related to satisfaction toward the intervention and acknowledged support in specific areas of parenting provided in the intervention	8-weeks follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Turku
• Investigators: Study Director: Andre Sourander, Professor, MD, University of Turku

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 29, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 19, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 19, 2024
• Last Verified: August 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Parenting; Parent-Training
• Other Study ID Numbers: BePresent

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No