Tele-Wellness Supported App for Family Child Care Home Providers and Families to Promote Health, Family Engagement, and School Readiness Amid COVID-19

Part of paid clinical trials in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sponsor
Johns Hopkins University
Study ID
NCT04453657
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Child Behavior
  • Social Competence
  • Stress, Psychological

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
3 Years - 99 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • FamilyChildCare (provisional name of app) — DEVICE
    Parents will provide their child(ren) access to a smartphone, tablet, or computer for approximately 30 minutes, three times per week for 15 weeks with a total dosage of instruction of about 22.5 hours. Parents and providers will receive self-care, parenting, and parent engagement tips and resources through push notifications twice a day. Additionally, daily reminders will be sent to parents through push notification to give their child(ren) access to the learning games. After 15 weeks of app engagement, the providers and parents will be contacted by the PI to notify them of the 15 week time mark and provide the information for post-surveys via Qualtrics.

Study Details

The investigators aim to deliver a tele-wellness supported app to Baltimore City's Family Child Care Home (FCCH) providers who are caring for children of Essential Personnel. Once a pre-survey is conducted, login information will be assigned to 30 Family Child Care Home providers and parents the FCCH serve. Providers and Parents will receive self-care and parenting/parent engagement support through the app and through a tele-wellness service, Ask a Nurse, provided by community health nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Children will have access to gamified learning materials in early literacy, math, social-emotional learning, and nutrition.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 4, 2021
Status verified
Sep 2025
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2026
Completion
Sep 30, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
270 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Arms

  • Experimental: Intervention
    There is only one arm in this study. All recruited and consented participants will fill out a pre-survey, engage with the digital toolkit for 15 weeks, then fill out a post-survey.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Perceived Level of Stress as assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale [ Time Frame: At pre and post surveys lasting 30-45 minutes each, up to 15 weeks apart ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Johns Hopkins School of NursingBaltimoreMaryland21205-

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