Utilizing Smart Speaker Technology to Deliver Parenting Education Support to Parents of Young Children

利用智能音箱技术为幼儿家长提供育儿教育支持

• 批准号: 10005826
• 负责人: CAROL W METZLER
• 金额: $ 25.2万
• 依托单位: OREGON RES BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION STRAT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-06 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005826
• 关键词: 5 year old; Active Learning; Address; Adolescence; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Child Health; Child Rearing; Childhood; Client; Computers; Country; Cues; Custom; Development; Devices; Economically Deprived Population; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Family; Feedback; Fostering; Goals; Hand; Head Start Program; Health behavior; Home environment; In Situ; Informal Social Control; Intervention; Letters; Logistics; Methods; Modeling; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting Education; Parents; Persons; Phase; Play; Problem Solving; Problem behavior; Psyche structure; Readiness; Reporting; Risk; Role; Sampling; Schools; Self Efficacy; Series; Services; Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Stress; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; Tablets; Technology; Telephone; Time; Voice; base; behavioral health; commercial application; design; evidence base; expectation; experience; externalizing behavior; family support; formative assessment; foster child; improved; innovation; interest; parental role; phase 1 study; programs; prototype; psychosocial; psychosocial adjustment; recruit; satisfaction; skills; sleep behavior; social disadvantage; success; support tools; tool; usability

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Children with externalizing behaviors and self-regulation difficulties as early as preschool are at elevated risk for socioemotional, behavioral, and academic problems throughout childhood, and for later psychosocial problems including substance abuse in adolescence. Behavioral sleep problems play an important role in children’s long-term adjustment as well. The presence of predictable, positive family routines improves children’s long-term trajectory for psychosocial and academic adjustment, especially in at-risk family environments. Evidence-based parenting programs have shown much value in addressing these problems, but the reach of parenting programs is limited by significant challenges in recruiting, engaging, and retaining parents, such that most parents who could benefit from parenting assistance never receive it. By overcoming logistical barriers to attending in-person parenting programs, technology-based parenting interventions offer significant potential for bringing evidence-based parenting supports to a broad range of parents experiencing challenges in raising their children. However, technology-based approaches confront significant engagement challenges as well. In addition, the field lacks programs that can bring evidence-based parenting supports to parents on an in-situ basis, such that parents can receive experiential support on how to foster healthy routines for their children. This proposed Phase I study will harness new innovative smart speaker technology to create a tool for parents, called “Talk Parenting”, that will provide families with engaging, motivating in-situ support on building healthy family routines. Talk Parenting will be an application, or “skill”, for the Amazon “Alexa” Echo smart speaker devices. Phase I will develop and evaluate feasibility of the first module, a guided Bedtime Routine to foster healthy sleep habits and provide experiential practice in self-regulation skills and a framework for positive parent-child interactions. Families will be able to access this in-situ support through hands-free simple voice commands and interactions with the smart speaker device. This project will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the prototype Talk Parenting skill, and its initial effects on improving parenting practices, self-efficacy, and stress, children’s behavioral and sleep problems, and the parent-child relationship. A sample of 52 families of 3-5-year old children will be recruited through Head Start and other family support agencies. A within-subjects, pre-post design will be employed to analyze usability, satisfaction, and preliminary effects. A stakeholder Advisory Board will also provide feedback on commercial feasibility. Phase II will complete the full suite of parent-child routines to further build children’s capacities in self-regulation, psychosocial adjustment, and school readiness skills, including routines for the morning rush, cleaning-up, schoolwork, transitions, and “calming-down” when experiencing strong emotions. Establishing feasibility and initial efficacy of the innovative Talk Parenting program will have important implications for harnessing new smart speaker technologies to assist parents in-situ with key parenting challenges.

项目摘要/摘要 具有外在行为和自我调节困难的儿童早在学龄前就处于较高的风险 整个儿童期以及以后的社会心理社会情感，行为和学术问题 包括青少年滥用药物的问题。行为睡眠问题在 儿童的长期调整。可预测的积极家庭常规的存在改善 儿童对心理和学术调整的长期轨迹，尤其是在高危家族中 环境。基于证据的育儿计划在解决这些问题方面表现出很大的价值，但是 育儿计划的覆盖范围受到招聘，参与和保留的重大挑战的限制 父母，大多数可以从育儿援助中受益的父母永远不会得到它。通过克服 参加面对面育儿计划的后勤障碍，基于技术的育儿干预措施提供 将基于证据的育儿支持带给各种父母经历的巨大潜力 抚养孩子的挑战。但是，基于技术的方法面临着重要的参与 挑战也是如此。此外，该领域缺少可以为循证育儿支持带来的计划 父母以原位为基础，以便父母可以在如何培养健康的日常活动方面获得专家支持 为他们的孩子。这项拟议的I阶段研究将利用新的创新智能扬声器技术来创建 父母的工具，称为“谈话育儿”，它将为家庭提供引人入胜，激励的现场支持 建立健康的家庭常规。谈论育儿将是亚马逊“ Alexa”的应用程序或“技能” 回声智能扬声器设备。第一阶段将开发和评估第一个模块的可行性，这是一个导向的睡前时间 养成健康睡眠习惯并提供自我调节技能的专家实践和 积极亲子互动的框架。家庭将能够通过 免提简单的语音命令和与智能扬声器设备的交互。这个项目将评估 原型育儿技巧的可行性，可接受性和可用性及其对 改善育儿做法，自我效能和压力，儿童的行为和睡眠问题，以及 亲子关系。将通过头开始招募52个3-5岁儿童的家庭样本 和其他家庭支持机构。主题内，将进行前设计以分析可用性， 满意度和初步效果。利益相关者咨询委员会还将提供有关商业的反馈 可行性。第二阶段将完成一套由父母的惯例，以进一步建立孩子的能力 自我调节，社会心理调整和学校准备技能，包括早上匆忙的惯例， 当经历强烈的情绪时，清理，功课，过渡和“平静下来”。建立 创新的谈话育儿计划的可行性和初始效率将对 利用新的智能扬声器技术，以协助父母原地应对关键的育儿挑战。