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Digital Parenting Education: Impact on Mothers' Social Media Use and Children's Tech Attitudes

NCT07008651 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 152

Last updated 2025-06-06

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Summary

The aim of the study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of mothers regarding social media addiction and their children's technology use.

The research is a randomized controlled trial. The universe of the research consists of all family health center affiliated with the Artvin Provincial Health Directorate, and the sample consists of mothers with healthy preschool children (3-6 years old) registered in family health center No. 1, determined by drawing lots.

The sample size was determined as 152 participants, with 76 assigned to the experimental group and 76 to the control group. The digital parenting training to be given to mothers consists of 8 sessions of 20 minutes each. The digital parenting training content, presentation and brochure were prepared according to the Ministry of Family and Social Services' "Parental Guide for Protecting Children from Digital Risks", the Ministry of Health's "Technology Addiction Parental Guide" and the Presidency's Directorate of Communications' "Social Media Usage Guide". Opinions of 10 experts were received for the prepared training presentation and brochure. As a result of the evaluation, descriptive statistics; number (N) and percentage (%) for variables between groups, mean, standard deviation (SD), minimum (min), maximum (max) values for numerical data and significance level will be stated as p\<0.05.

Conditions

  • Parenting
  • Social Media Addiction
  • Internet Addiction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Digital parenting education

Description: The digital parenting training to be given to mothers consists of 8 sessions of 20 minutes each. In the first week of the training process, a meeting will be held with the mothers in the experimental group and a brief introduction will be made to the subject. In the second week, information will be provided on the following topics: "Definition and Roles of Digital Parenting", "How Does the Use of Information Technologies Affect the Parent-Child Relationship?", "How Does the Use of Information Technologies Affect Children's Behavior?", "How Should Social Media Be Used Properly?", "What are the Opportunities and Risks of Information Technologies for Parents and Children?", and "What Should Parents Pay Attention to in the Use of Information Technologies?" in the sixth week. In the eighth week, "Question and Answer/Closing" will be conducted to collect post-test data and end the training session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Artvin Coruh University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fatma GUDUCU TUFEKCI, Professor · Ataturk University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-27
Primary Completion
2025-09-18
Completion
2025-12-19

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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