NCT03926221

Parent-Adolescent Interpersonal Processes in the Science of Behavior Change

Completed NA Last updated 5 November 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I) and Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention (TranS-C) in Sleep Deprivation in 112 participants. Completed in 26 August 2020.

Timeline

1 December 2018

Primary endpoint
11 August 2020

26 August 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of California, Berkeley
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	112
Start date	1 December 2018
Primary completion	11 August 2020
Estimated completion	26 August 2020
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I) and Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention (TranS-C)

Conditions studied

• Sleep Deprivation — all drugs for Sleep Deprivation →
• Adolescent Behavior — all drugs for Adolescent Behavior →

Sponsor

University of California, Berkeley

Who can join

Adults 10 to 18, any sex, with Sleep Deprivation or Adolescent Behavior. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study seeks to examine a novel interpersonal target; namely, parent-teen conversations about youth health behavior change. The rationale is that parents have profound impacts on teen risk and vulnerability. Yet parents receive minimal training in the elements of conversations that optimally inspire their children toward engaging in healthy behaviors. A theoretically grounded and reliable taxonomy of behavior change techniques (BCTs) will be used as a basis for scientifically deriving the conversational elements, or micro-mechanisms, that reduce parent-teen conflict and facilitate upward spirals of healthful behavior change. This proposal builds on pilot data from a recently completed NICHD-funded R01 in which a sleep treatment improved sleep and reduced risk on selected outcomes in youth. While sleep-related health behaviors will be the focus of this R21, the research is designed to be relevant to a broad range of health behavior change. As part of an Administrative Supplement to the R21 awarded in Fall, 2019, two changes are made. First, measures of psychophysiology have been added to the Hot Topics Task. Second, an independent sample of teens who are healthy sleepers (n = 20), and their parents, will be tested on the protocol twice, 9 weeks apart. This comparison group is included to control for the passage of time and for completing the protocol twice. They do not receive an intervention.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Open trial of the Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I): Study protocol.
   Dong L, Fine ER, Michie S, Zhou Q, et al · · 2020 · cited 3× · PMID 32833480 · DOI 10.1037/hea0000873
2. Improving Parent-Adolescent Conversation to Promote Adolescent Sleep Health Behavior Change: An Open Trial of the Parent Behavior Change Intervention.
   Dong L, Gumport NB, Fine ER, Michie S, et al · · 2025 · PMID 40541373 · DOI 10.1016/j.beth.2024.10.004