The goal of this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) is to develop, evaluate, and commercialize a linked parent-youth mobile app system, VillageWhere, to support the key treatment targets of evidence-based treatments for youth with conduct disorders: clear parental expectations, parental monitoring, discipline consistency, and parental support, while simultaneously cultivating intrinsic motivation in youth toward prosocial behaviors. When used in conjunction with an evidence-based treatment for delinquent youth, VillageWhere could help reduce treatment length and cost. When provided in non-evidence-based clinical settings, VillageWhere may increase access to state-of-the-art clinical techniques to those who might not otherwise receive them. Investigators will conduct usability and acceptability tests of new features with target-end-users (youth and their parents) and key stakeholders (i.e., probation officers, clinic administrators). Once usability and acceptability is achieved, investigators will conduct a 16-week randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing VillageWhere to an attention-control (placebo) mobile app. We expect that across four time points, VillageWhere use will result in greater improvements in parent management practices and youth autonomy support, parent-youth communication and connectedness, youth intrinsic motivation for positive behavior, and youth conduct problems than the placebo. The RCT will occur with 100 parent-youth dyads recruited from various treatment and probation settings, and represent clinically-significant conduct-problems of various clinically-significant severity levels.
Age range
13 Years
Sex
ALL
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Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Youth Self-Report (YSR)
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Self-Report of Delinquent Behavior Scale
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
GAIN Substance Frequency Scale
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) Perceived Competence Scale (PCS)
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Perceived Autonomy Support (PAS)
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Parent Locus of Control Scale
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).
Loeber Parenting Scale
Timeframe: Baseline (time 1), 4-week follow-up (time 2), 8-week follow-up (time 3), and 12-week follow-up (time 4).