Clinical Trial: VillageWhere: Innovative Mobile Technology for Youth With Conduct Disorder and Their Parents

Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Using Mobile Technology to Enhance MST Outcomes

Brief Summary: 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.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Evidence-Based Practice Institute, Seattle, WA

Current Primary Outcome:

• Change in Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses parent report of youth rule-breaking, aggressive, anxious/depressed, and drug/alcohol use behaviors
• Change in Youth Self-Report (YSR) [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses youth self-report of rule-breaking, aggressive, anxious/depressed, and drug/alcohol use behaviors
• Change in Self-Report of Delinquent Behavior Scale [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses youth delinquent behaviors
• Change in GAIN Substance Frequency Scale [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses youth alcohol and substance use
• Change in Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) Perceived Competence Scale (PCS) [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses youth intrinsic motivation for prosocial behaviors
• Change in Perceived Autonomy Support (PAS) [ Time Frame: baseline (time 1), 1-4 weeks (time 2), 5-8 weeks (time 3), and 9-16 weeks (time 4) ]
  Assesses youth perceived autonomy-supportive and controlling parent behaviors
• Same as current
  
  

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  Information By: Evidence-Based Practice Institute, Seattle, WA
  

  Dates:
  Date Received: February 16, 2017
  Date Started: March 1, 2018
  Date Completion: February 28, 2019
  Last Updated: February 22, 2017
  Last Verified: February 2017