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Parent-Child Memory Study: Improving Future Thinking Among Mothers

NCT06145919 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2025-05-14

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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

  • Behavior, Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Future Thinking (EFT)

The adapted episodic future thinking (EFT) intervention will focus on generation of vivid, substance-free, rewarding events that could happen in the future with their children.

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Recent Thinking (ERT)

In the episodic recent thinking (ERT) condition, the participant will instead describe in vivid details events that have occurred in the recent past.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Kansas

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    collaborator OTHER

  • Michigan State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Henry Ford Health System

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-06
Primary Completion
2025-08-31
Completion
2025-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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