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Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate the effects of a brief, individually-tailored web-based parenting program on parenting behaviours associated with adolescent depression and anxiety disorders. The program is designed to provide parents with personalised feedback about their current parenting, including what they are doing well and areas that they can improve in order to reduce their teenager’s risk of depression and anxiety. We aim to find out whether this program can help improve parenting behaviours associated with adolescent depression and anxiety, and in turn reduce risk of depression and anxiety in teenagers.
Interventions
The intervention consists of a brief web-based parenting program ('Partners in Parenting') which is part of a larger research translation program (Parenting Strategies; www.parentingstrategies.net).
Parents will first complete an approximately 20-minute online survey (developed specifically for use in this study) that assesses their current parenting practices against the recommendations in the Guidelines 'How to Prevent Depression and Clinical Anxiety in Your Teenager: Strategies for Parents' (
The intervention consists of a brief web-based parenting program ('Partners in Parenting') which is part of a larger research translation program (Parenting Strategies; www.parentingstrategies.net). Parents will first complete an approximately 20-minute online survey (developed specifically for use in this study) that assesses their current parenting practices against the recommendations in the Guidelines 'How to Prevent Depression and Clinical Anxiety in Your Teenager: Strategies for Parents' (Parenting Strategies Program, 2013; henceforth the Guidelines). Based on their responses to this survey, parents in the intervention group will then receive a once-off, individually-tailored feedback report that highlights areas where they are doing well (i.e., concordant with the Guidelines), as well as areas where they can improve (i.e., not concordant with the Guidelines). The messages in the feedback report are brief, with practical strategies provided in dot point form, and are designed to motivate behaviour change. Parents in the intervention group will view their feedback report online, and will also be emailed a copy of their feedback report as well as the Guidelines.
Sponsors
Dr Marie Yap
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Parent Participants: Parents or guardians of at least one child aged 12 to 15 years (inclusive), who reside in Australia, are fluent in English, have regular access to the internet and an email account. Adolescent Participants: Adolescent children of participating parents/guardians, aged 12 to 15 years (inclusive) on entry to the trial, who reside in Australia, are fluent in English, and have regular access to the internet. Only one parent and one adolescent per family can participate in the trial.
Exclusion criteria
Parents: 1. Parents who reside outside of Australia. 2. Parents who are not proficient in English. Adolescents: 1. Adolescents who reside outside of Australia. 2. Adolescents who are not proficient in English. 3. Adolescents who do not have parental consent to participate in the study; or who do not provide verbal assent to participate. Note: parents can still participate if their child does not participate. Parents and adolescents will not be excluded if the adolescent scores in the clinically elevated range (as determined by published clinical cut-off scores) on either the SMFQ or SCAS (either parent- or child-report form) at baseline. However, by assessing baseline symptoms, we will be able to conduct post-hoc analyses in which we exclude adolescents who scored above the clinical cut-off scores at baseline. The cut-off scores used are as follows: SMFQ (parent- or child-report versions): 8 or more SCAS (Child-report): For male children: Scores of 48 or more. For female children: Scores of 51 or more. SCAS (Parent-report): For male children: Scores of 24 or more. For female children: Scores of 26 or more.
Outcome results
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