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 早在学龄前就有外化行为和自我调节困难的儿童风险较高 儿童时期的社会情绪、行为和学业问题，以及后来的社会心理问题 问题包括青春期的药物滥用。行为睡眠问题在 儿童的长期适应也是如此。可预测的、积极的家庭惯例的存在改善了 儿童心理社会和学业适应的长期轨迹，特别是在高危家庭中 环境。循证育儿计划在解决这些问题方面显示出了很大的价值，但 育儿计划的影响范围受到招聘、参与和留住方面的重大挑战的限制 父母，以至于大多数可以从育儿援助中受益的父母永远得不到帮助。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 将循证育儿支持带给广泛经历的父母的巨大潜力 在养育孩子方面的挑战。然而，基于技术的方法面临着重大的参与 挑战也是如此。此外，该领域缺乏能够将循证育儿支持带给 在原地为基础的父母，这样父母可以在如何培养健康的日常生活方面得到经验上的支持 为了他们的孩子。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 这是一种为父母提供的工具，称为“谈论育儿”，它将为家庭提供引人入胜、激励人心的就地支持 关于建立健康的家庭惯例。对话育儿将是亚马逊的一项应用，或者说是一项“技能”。 Echo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，即指导睡前 培养健康睡眠习惯的例行公事，提供自我调节技能和 积极的亲子互动框架。家庭将能够通过以下方式获得这种现场支持 免提简单的语音命令和与智能扬声器设备的交互。该项目将评估 原型谈话父母教养技巧的可行性、可接受性和可用性及其对儿童的初步影响 改善育儿实践、自我效能感、压力、儿童行为和睡眠问题，以及 亲子关系。将通过Head Start招募52个3-5岁儿童家庭的样本 和其他家庭支持机构。将采用受试者内部、岗位前的设计来分析可用性， 满足感和初步效果。利益相关者咨询委员会还将就商业广告提供反馈 可行性。第二阶段将完成全套亲子程序，以进一步培养儿童在 自我调节、心理社会适应和学校准备技能，包括早上高峰的例行公事， 当经历强烈的情绪时，清理、课业、过渡和“平静”。建立 创新谈话育儿计划的可行性和初步效果将对以下方面产生重要影响 利用新的智能扬声器技术帮助现场父母应对关键的育儿挑战。