The New Beginnings Podcast: Brief Audio Intervention for Parents From Divorced and Separated Families
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: New Beginnings Podcast Program, No Interventions.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Intervention, Parenting Behaviour, Interparental Conflict. Basic parameters: from 8 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
"The New Beginnings Podcast: A Small-scale Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting Podcast to Improve Outcomes for Children From Divorced Families"
Overview
The goal of this study is to learn if the New Beginnings Podcast can help children whose parents are going through a divorce or separation. The podcast shares parenting strategies that have been shown to help in past in-person and online programs. This study will also look at how easy it is for parents to use the podcast and how helpful they find it. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Do parents find the podcast easy to use, helpful, and relevant? 2. Does listening to the podcast improve children's mental health? 3. Does the podcast help parents build stronger relationships with their children and reduce conflict between parents? Researchers will compare families who use the podcast to families on a waitlist to see if the podcast makes a difference. Participants will: 1. Listen to podcast episodes over the course of the study 2. Answer questions about their experiences with the podcast 3. Complete surveys about their child's well-being, their parenting, and family relationships This study will include 80 parents and their children.
Detailed description
The adult (parent) participants who are enrolled in the randomized clinical trial will receive a podcast-based program that teaches several parenting skills that have demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness for improving child adjustment after divorce in the short- and long- term in previous randomized trials. The anticipated risks are considered minimal and reasonable in relation to the anticipated benefit of an intervention tailored to help after separation/divorce.
The child participants (aged 11-18, offspring of parent participants) will receive no direct benefits of participation but may receive indirect benefits from the proposed research through podcast-induced improvements in their parent's parenting (as described above).
Interventions
- Behavioral New Beginnings Podcast Program
Parents will listen to 5 episodes of the New Beginnings Podcast (NBP-P) over 5 weeks. They will listen to one episode per week. - Other No Interventions
Parents in the waitlist group will get access to the podcast after completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study.
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility of Intervention [Time frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group Only]
- Usability of Intervention [Time frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only]
- Acceptability of Intervention [Time frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only]
- Appropriateness of Intervention [Time frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Child Internalizing Symptoms (Child-Report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7)]
- Child Internalizing Symptoms (Parent-Report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7)]
- Child Externalizing Symptoms (Parent-Report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7)]
- Child Externalizing Problems (Child-Report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 0) and Post-Test (Week 7)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
For Parents, eligibility criteria are:
- divorced, separated, separated but never married, or divorcing/separating within the last two years;
- one or more children between the ages of 8-18 years old;
- have in-person contact with their child(ren) at least three hours per week or have at least one overnight visit every other week;
- have access to a smartphone with internet that can play audio files;
- English speaking.
For children, eligibility criteria are:
- have a parent who is participating in the trial;
- be between the ages of 8-18 and
- have access to a computer to complete assessments. If a parent has more than one child aged 8-18 interested in participating, we will randomly select one child to ensure independence of responses.
Exclusion criteria
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Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- ASU Dept of Psychology — Tempe
Publications
- Wolchik SA, Sandler IN, Winslow EB, Porter MM, Yun-Tein J. Effects of an asynchronous, fully web-based parenting-after-divorce program to reduce interparental conflict, increase quality of parenting and reduce children's post-divorce behavior problems. Fam Court Rev. Published online 2022.
- Wolchik SA, Sandler IN, Weiss L, Winslow E. New Beginnings: An empirically-based program to help divorced mothers promote resilience in their children. In: Briesmeister JM, Schaefer CE, eds. Handbook of Parent Training: Helping Parents Prevent and Solve Problem Behaviors. John Wiley & Sons Inc.; 2007:25-62.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07529548 · STUDY00017352