VillageWhere: Innovative Mobile Technology for Youth With Conduct Disorder and Their Parents
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Psychiatric |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 13 - Any |
| Updated: | 2/28/2019 |
| Start Date: | July 16, 2018 |
| End Date: | February 28, 2020 |
| Contact: | Research Team |
| Email: | research@ebpi.org |
| Phone: | 206-455-7934 |
Using Mobile Technology to Enhance MST Outcomes
The goal of this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) is to develop, evaluate,
and commercialize a linked parent-youth mobile app system, VillageWhere, to support the key
treatment targets of evidence-based treatments for youth with conduct disorders: clear
parental expectations, parental monitoring, discipline consistency, and parental support,
while simultaneously cultivating intrinsic motivation in youth toward prosocial behaviors.
When used in conjunction with an evidence-based treatment for delinquent youth, VillageWhere
could help reduce treatment length and cost. When provided in non-evidence-based clinical
settings, VillageWhere may increase access to state-of-the-art clinical techniques to those
who might not otherwise receive them. Investigators will conduct usability and acceptability
tests of new features with target-end-users (youth and their parents) and key stakeholders
(i.e., probation officers, clinic administrators). Once usability and acceptability is
achieved, investigators will conduct a 16-week randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing
VillageWhere to an attention-control (placebo) mobile app. We expect that across four time
points, VillageWhere use will result in greater improvements in parent management practices
and youth autonomy support, parent-youth communication and connectedness, youth intrinsic
motivation for positive behavior, and youth conduct problems than the placebo. The RCT will
occur with 100 parent-youth dyads recruited from various treatment and probation settings,
and represent clinically-significant conduct-problems of various clinically-significant
severity levels.
and commercialize a linked parent-youth mobile app system, VillageWhere, to support the key
treatment targets of evidence-based treatments for youth with conduct disorders: clear
parental expectations, parental monitoring, discipline consistency, and parental support,
while simultaneously cultivating intrinsic motivation in youth toward prosocial behaviors.
When used in conjunction with an evidence-based treatment for delinquent youth, VillageWhere
could help reduce treatment length and cost. When provided in non-evidence-based clinical
settings, VillageWhere may increase access to state-of-the-art clinical techniques to those
who might not otherwise receive them. Investigators will conduct usability and acceptability
tests of new features with target-end-users (youth and their parents) and key stakeholders
(i.e., probation officers, clinic administrators). Once usability and acceptability is
achieved, investigators will conduct a 16-week randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing
VillageWhere to an attention-control (placebo) mobile app. We expect that across four time
points, VillageWhere use will result in greater improvements in parent management practices
and youth autonomy support, parent-youth communication and connectedness, youth intrinsic
motivation for positive behavior, and youth conduct problems than the placebo. The RCT will
occur with 100 parent-youth dyads recruited from various treatment and probation settings,
and represent clinically-significant conduct-problems of various clinically-significant
severity levels.
Parent Inclusion Criteria:
- English speaking
- owns an Android or iPhone-based smartphone with a data plan, is the primary user of
the phone, and uses it on a daily basis
- primary caregiver and has legal guardianship (custody) of a youth aged 13-18 with
conduct disorder.
Parent Exclusion Criteria:
- has an open case with child protective services
- does not have legal custody of the youth
- participated in Phase I project and/or the Phase II formative evaluation
Youth Inclusion Criteria:
- English speaking
- possesses and is the primary user of an Android or iPhone-based smartphone with a data
plan
- resides in the same household as the linked parent participant at least five days a
week
- actively (past two weeks) engaging in clinically significant conduct-problem behaviors
Note: Youth who have "stepped down" from a residential treatment or juvenile justice
facility in the past month but may not have exhibited conduct problem behavior within
the past 2 weeks will also be eligible, provided other criteria are met.
Youth Exclusion Criteria:
- resides with a secondary caregiver 3 or more days each week
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