None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The prevalence of mental health problems in youth is substantial; and efforts aimed at strengthening parenting skills and increasing knowledge on adolescent development hold much promise to prevent and mitigate adolescent mental health problems. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of a SMS-based mobile intervention that promotes parental competence and mental health literacy for preventing adolescent mental health problems. compared with a control group.
Interventions
Intervention: Participants will receive a tailored programme of text messages (SMS) via their mobile phone. The messages will provide instructional, informational, and emotional support. These will include evidence-based information on the nature and symptoms of depression, understanding treatment options, strategies to improve parent-child communication, parent self-care, and useful links to resources. Input and feedback on the content of the text messages have been obtained from parents and ca
Intervention: Participants will receive a tailored programme of text messages (SMS) via their mobile phone. The messages will provide instructional, informational, and emotional support. These will include evidence-based information on the nature and symptoms of depression, understanding treatment options, strategies to improve parent-child communication, parent self-care, and useful links to resources. Input and feedback on the content of the text messages have been obtained from parents and caregivers as part of the development phase via focus groups, and have been fine-tuned to meet the needs of parents of teenagers. The intervention will be delivered over 4 weeks, with participants receiving one text per day. Participants are able to choose the time period of which they wish to receive the text. Text messages will be one way, however participants are able to discontinue receving the text messages should they wish to by replying "STOP".. Participants will receive all the text-messages free of charge.
Sponsors
National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Parents/Caregivers will be eligible for inclusion in the study if they indicate at screening that they have an adolescent child aged between 10-15 years of age; have access to a mobile phone; are not currently receiving any professional assistance for their own and/or child’s mental health problems; possess adequate knowledge of the English language; and are willing to participate in the study and provide follow-up information at scheduled points of the study. Only one parent from two-parent households will be invited to participate.
Exclusion criteria
Parents/Caregivers that do not meet the inclusion criteria will be excluded from the study. Parents/Caregivers that show high level of stress as reported by the Parental Stress Index (i.e., equal and/or greater than 45) at screening will be excluded and directed to professional services.
Outcome results
None listed