SBIR/ STTR Family Check-up Online
A Digital Health Technology to Prevent Family Violence and Improve Child Mental Health
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interventional
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Brief Summary
The Family Check-Up Online, a digital health intervention, was designed to improve child mental health through family-centered intervention. The Family Check-Up is grounded in over 25 years of evidence-based research and has been shown to improve child mental health and behavior including depression and conduct problems. The investigators were supported by an SBIR Phase I award (R43MH132191) to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the digital health product in schools and to adapt the product based on findings of that work. Findings from that project suggested the model is a good fit for schools, with school providers stating a need for family-centered interventions that target child behavior and mental health, but with few resources or evidence-based programs available. The research team received feedback that suggests the model should be evaluated as both an uncoached version and coached version, delivered with provider support. In the current project, the investigators plan to continue work in schools to develop the model for commercialization, including understanding the process for embedding the FCU Online into current student support systems and implementation factors that lead to maintenance of the model in schools. The investigators plan to conduct a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the FCU Online when delivered by real world providers. Thirty providers (N=600 students/families) will be randomly assigned to receive training in the FCU Online coached vs. uncoached models. The research team will then evaluate outcomes including family relationships, parenting skills, and child mental health and behavior. The investigators predict that the FCU Online will improve child mental health and behavior, and will test for moderators such as provider training and child baseline risk. Findings will have implications for commercialization of the product in schools and implementation of the model in a range of different school settings.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Jan 2025
Typical duration for not_applicable
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
January 20, 2025
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
February 11, 2025
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
March 14, 2025
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 31, 2026
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 31, 2027
April 29, 2026
April 1, 2026
1.9 years
February 11, 2025
April 27, 2026
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (6)
Change from Baseline in Child Depression (Parent report)
Parents report on their child's depression using the two item PHQ-2. Scores for the individual items range from 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly all) and are summed together. Higher scores indicate greater child depression.
baseline, 6 months
Change from Baseline in Child Anxiety (Parent report)
Parents report on their child's anxiety using the two item GAD-2. Scores for the individual items range from 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly all) and are summed together. Higher scores indicate greater child anxiety.
baseline, 6 months
Change from Baseline in Positive Parenting (Parent report)
Parents report on their use of positive parenting skills using a modified version of the Parenting Young Children scale. Parents are asked to indicate the frequency with which they used positive parenting skills (such as encouragement and praise, relationship building, giving clear directions, and using rewards for positive behavior) over the past month using a 5-pt scale (0=Never/ 1=Rarely/ 2= Sometimes/ 3=Often/ 4=Very Often). Responses to these 10 items are summed. Higher scores indicate frequent use of positive parenting skills.
baseline, 6 months
Change from Baseline in Rules and Consequences (Parent report)
Parents report on the extent to which they enforced rules and consequences for negative behavior over the past month using a 13-item scale developed for this project. Parents are asked to indicate the frequency with which they monitored their child's behavior, set clear rules, applied logical consequences, and ignored annoying behavior using a 5-pt scale (0=Never/ 1=Rarely/ 2= Sometimes/ 3=Often/ 4=Very Often). Responses are summed and higher scores indicate more consistent use of rules and consequences.
baseline, 6 months
Change from Baseline in Positive Communication (Parent report)
Parents report on the extent to which positive communication occurred with their child over the past month using a 12-item scale developed for this project. Parents are asked to indicate the frequency with which they communicated calmly and clearly, listened to their child, and mitigated conflict using a 5-pt scale (0=Never/ 1=Rarely/ 2= Sometimes/ 3=Often/ 4=Very Often). Responses are summed and higher scores indicate more positive communication within the family.
baseline, 6 months
Change from Baseline in Supporting School Success (Parent report)
Parents report on the ways they support their child's school success over the past month using a16-item scale developed for this project. Parents are asked to indicate the frequency with which their family followed regular morning, meal, sleep, school, and homework routines using a 5-pt scale (0=Never/ 1=Almost Never/ 2= Sometimes/ 3=Frequently/ 4=Almost Always). Responses are summed, and higher scores indicate more frequent use of routines that support school success.
baseline, 6 months
Study Arms (4)
FCU Online with telehealth coaching
EXPERIMENTALFCU Online Digital intervention with telehealth coaching. This arm includes usage of the digital intervention plus telehealth support from a parenting coach.
FCU Online
EXPERIMENTALFCU Online digital intervention. This arm includes use of the digital intervention only (i.e., no telehealth coaching).
Providers participating in feasibility/ acceptability interviews
NO INTERVENTIONSchool-based providers will be interviewed to help the research team identify feasible and acceptable implementation strategies for delivery of the basic and supported FCU Online models as routine school services.
Parents participating in feasibility/ acceptability interviews
NO INTERVENTIONParents of middle school-aged students will be interviewed to help the research team identify feasible and acceptable implementation strategies for delivery of the basic and supported FCU Online models as routine school services.
Interventions
The Family Check-Up Online is a digital intervention that includes an assessment, computer-generated feedback, and intervention modules that focus on improving family relationships and parenting skills in order to reduce child mental health problems and to improve child self-regulation. These modules include Healthy Behaviors for Stressful Times, Positive Parenting, Rules and Consequences, Supporting School Success, and Communication.
This intervention is the Family Check-Up Online plus telehealth support from a parenting coach. The Family Check-Up Online is a digital intervention that includes an assessment, computer-generated feedback, and intervention modules that focus on improving family relationships and parenting skills in order to reduce child mental health problems and to improve child self-regulation. These modules include Healthy Behaviors for Stressful Times, Positive Parenting, Rules and Consequences, Supporting School Success, and Communication. A coach based at the child's school meets with caregivers via telehealth modality to provide motivation and to help caregivers tailor the content of the modules to their specific child and family's needs.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- A caregiver must have a child between the ages of 11 and 14 enrolled at a participating school;
- the caregiver must be the parent or legal guardian of the youth;
- the caregiver must have a smartphone with text messaging capability and access to email; and
- the youth must be identified by school providers as needing or being eligible for Tier 2 or Tier 3 supports or services.
You may not qualify if:
- the caregiver is unable to read in either English or Spanish; or
- the family is already participating in another study of the University of Oregon's Prevention Science Institute.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of Oregonlead
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)collaborator
Study Sites (1)
Prevention Science Institute
Eugene, Oregon, 97403, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Anne M Mauricio, PhD
University of Oregon
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Lisa A Reiter, PhD
Northwest Prevention Science
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Elizabeth A Stormshak, PhD
Northwest Prevention Science
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
February 11, 2025
First Posted
March 14, 2025
Study Start
January 20, 2025
Primary Completion (Estimated)
December 31, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
December 31, 2027
Last Updated
April 29, 2026
Record last verified: 2026-04
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
- Time Frame
- Individual-level data will be released 12 months after the final participant has completed a given wave of data collection. This will allow time for data cleaning, and also provides a brief window for the investigative team to analyze and publish key findings prior to sharing the data, but still makes the data available to external researchers in a timely manner. After the grant award ends, if no additional external support is available to provide access to the data, the investigators will partner with the University of Oregon Libraries to host the data enclave and provide access to the data in perpetuity.
- Access Criteria
- External researcher requests for de-identified individual-level data must be accompanied by a signed Data Use Agreement, and researchers must document that they are working under an institution with a Federal Wide Assurance (FWA).To optimize usage of the data, the website at Northwest Prevention Science, Inc. will provide clear instructions for accessing the data.
External researchers will have access to de-identified, individual-level data, and members of the general public will have access to metadata, descriptive data, and summary data. External researcher requests for individual-level data must be accompanied by a signed Data Use Agreement, and researchers must document that they are working under an institution with a Federal Wide Assurance (FWA). University of Oregon Information Services staff will develop and maintain the enclave to host and provide access to de-identified study data. The data enclave will be accessible to qualified researchers through a web portal that has capabilities to send and receive data by using encrypted secure transmission protocols.