None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Children are spending increasing amounts of time with screens. Both International and national guidelines suggest limits for screen time for children 5-12 years old, still many children exceed these limits. However, time is only part of the issue, and other factors also need to be considered. Therefore, it is essential to support their parents to promote healthier habits in their children when interacting with screens. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the Healthy Screentime Habits Seminar (HSHS) through a randomised controlled trial (RCT) involving 500 parents of children aged 5 to 12 years old. It is expected that, when compared to waitlist group, parents who participate in HSHS would report improved parent, child, and family outcomes at post-intervention and 3-month follow-up. The initial evidence of the efficacy of the seminar would inform future research and scaling up implementation.
Interventions
The Healthy Screentime Habits Seminar (Turner et al., 2025) is a recent addition to the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program’s Seminar Series. This seminar aims to build parents’ capacity to support their children in developing healthy screen habits, particularly by strengthening their knowledge, skills, and confidence. The seminar is delivered live by experienced, accredited practitioners via videoconferencing software. The content of the seminar includes: What is a reasonable amount of screenti
The Healthy Screentime Habits Seminar (Turner et al., 2025) is a recent addition to the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program’s Seminar Series. This seminar aims to build parents’ capacity to support their children in developing healthy screen habits, particularly by strengthening their knowledge, skills, and confidence. The seminar is delivered live by experienced, accredited practitioners via videoconferencing software. The content of the seminar includes: What is a reasonable amount of screentime?, Why do screentime problems happen?, Preventing problems with screentime, Teaching healthy screentime habits, Managing conflict over screentime, Helping your child to be responsible and safe online, and Take-home messages. This seminar takes 90-120 minutes, including Q&A (1 x 2 hr session). For this study, each seminar will be conducted in an interactive group audio-visual format via The University of Queensland's Zoom platform. To assess or monitor adherence to the intervention, online attendance will be recorded.
Sponsors
Triple P International (TPI)
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Parents will need to have a child aged between 5 and 12 years old. Parents will need to be adults to be included in the study, i.e., 18 years old and older. As participants will complete online surveys in English at three points (T1, T2, and T3), it is expected that parents will need to have adequate English proficiency, basic computer skills and access to reliable Internet.
Exclusion criteria
Expectant parents (i.e., pregnant mothers and their partners without a born child yet) and adolescent parents will be excluded from this study (i.e., age under 18 year).
Outcome results
None listed