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Improving Future Thinking Among Mothers to Reduce Harsh Parenting and Improve Child Outcomes

NCT05229146 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2025-03-14

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Summary

Parents of children from impoverished communities are disproportionately more likely to engage in harsh physical discipline, which can lead to serious clinical outcomes, including suicidal ideation and attempts. One mechanism linking low resource environments and maladaptive parenting strategies is maternal delay discounting, or the tendency to value smaller, immediate rewards (such as stopping children's misbehavior via physical means) relative to larger, but delayed rewards (like improving the parent-child relationship). This study will examine the efficacy of implementing a low-cost, brief intervention targeting the reduction of maternal delay discounting to inform broader public health efforts aimed at improving adolescent mental health outcomes in traditionally underserved communities.

Conditions

  • Behavioral Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Future Thinking

Episodic future thinking (EFT) includes a focus on generating detailed and vivid descriptions of future events. For the current intervention, EFT will be modified to have mothers describe specific events with their children.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Kansas

    collaborator OTHER

  • Michigan State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Henry Ford Health System

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-02
Primary Completion
2023-11-21
Completion
2023-11-21

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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