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.

项目概要/摘要 早在学前班就有外化行为和自我调节困难的儿童面临较高的风险 针对整个童年时期的社会情感、行为和学业问题，以及后来的心理社会问题 包括青春期药物滥用在内的问题在睡眠行为中起着重要作用。 孩子们的长期适应能力也会得到改善。 儿童心理和学业调整的长期轨迹，特别是在高危家庭中 基于证据的育儿计划在解决这些问题方面显示出很大的价值，但是 育儿计划的影响力因招募、参与和保留方面的重大挑战而受到限制 大多数可以从育儿援助中受益的父母却从未克服过这一困难。 参加现场育儿计划的后勤障碍，基于技术的育儿干预措施提供 为广大经历过这种情况的父母提供基于证据的育儿支持的巨大潜力 然而，基于技术的方法面临着巨大的参与度。 此外，该领域还缺乏可以为人们带来基于证据的育儿支持的计划。 家长现场指导，以便家长可以获得有关如何培养健康习惯的经验支持 这项拟议的第一阶段研究将利用新的创新智能扬声器技术来创造 一种名为“Talk Parenting”的家长工具，将为家庭提供有吸引力的、激励性的现场支持 Talk Parenting 将成为亚马逊“Alexa”的一项应用程序或“技能”。 Echo 智能扬声器设备第一阶段将开发并评估第一个模块（引导就寝时间）的可行性。 培养健康睡眠习惯并提供自我调节技能和睡眠习惯的体验式练习 家庭将能够通过这种现场支持获得积极的亲子互动框架。 该项目将评估免提简单的语音命令以及与智能扬声器设备的交互。 原型谈话育儿技能的可行性、可接受性和可用性，及其对孩子的初步影响 改善养育方式、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 Head Start 招募 52 个 3-5 岁儿童家庭样本。 和其他家庭支持机构将采用受试者内的事前设计来分析可用性， 利益相关者咨询委员会还将提供商业反馈。 第二阶段将完成全套亲子活动，进一步培养孩子的能力。 自我调节、社会心理调整和入学准备技能，包括早高峰的日常安排， 清理、功课、过渡以及在经历强烈情绪时“平静下来”。 创新的谈话育儿计划的可行性和初步成效将对 利用新的智能扬声器技术现场协助父母应对关键的育儿挑战。