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

项目总结/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 儿童期的社会情绪、行为和学业问题，以及后来的社会心理问题。 包括青春期滥用药物的问题。行为睡眠问题在以下方面起着重要作用： 孩子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很大的价值， 由于在招募、参与和留住人才方面存在重大挑战，育儿计划的覆盖面受到限制 父母，这样，大多数父母谁可以受益于育儿援助从来没有得到它。 后勤障碍参加亲自育儿计划，以技术为基础的育儿干预提供 将基于证据的育儿支持带给广泛的父母的巨大潜力， 抚养孩子的挑战。然而，基于技术的方法面临着重大的参与， 挑战也是。此外，该领域缺乏能够为父母提供基于证据的支持的项目， 在现场的基础上，父母可以获得经验支持，如何培养健康的日常生活 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， 一个名为"谈话育儿"的父母工具，将为家庭提供有吸引力的，激励性的现场支持 建立健康的家庭生活习惯Talk Parenting将成为亚马逊“Alexa”的应用程序或“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， 常规，以培养健康的睡眠习惯，并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 原型谈话式父母教养技巧的可行性、可接受性和可用性，以及它对儿童的初步影响。 改善父母的做法，自我效能，和压力，儿童的行为和睡眠问题， 亲子关系将通过"开端计划"招募52个有3 - 5岁儿童的家庭作为样本 和其他家庭支持机构。将采用受试者内的前后设计来分析可用性， 满意度和初步效果。利益相关者咨询委员会还将提供商业反馈意见， 可行性第二阶段将完成一整套亲子活动，以进一步培养儿童的能力， 自我调节、心理社会调整和入学准备技能，包括早晨高峰的日常生活， 清理，功课，过渡，和“冷静下来”时，经历了强烈的情绪。建立 创新的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，帮助父母应对关键的育儿挑战。

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.