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The Middle Years Study: A Feasibility Study of a Self-paced Program Designed to Provide Parents of Middle School-aged Students With Knowledge About Teen Substance Use and Practice in High Quality Parent-adolescent Communication Methods Delivered Through a Highly Interactive Web-based Software Application
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Media Ready Parent and Active Control Program for Substance Use and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 576 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a web-based program for parents of middle school aged students. 286 parents and their child in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade will be asked to each complete two online questionnaires over the course of about a month, parents will also complete a web-based program between questionnaires. Researchers will compare the intervention and an active control to test the intervention program efficacy for improving outcomes related to parent-child communication, media message processing, and adolescent health.
Study Details
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Interventions
The intervention is a web-based resource that provides parents with media literacy and media mediation skills, knowledge about adolescent development and substance use, and practice in high quality parent-child communication.
The active control is a web-based resource that contains PDFs of medically accurate information about adolescent substance use.