The New Beginnings Podcast: Brief Audio Intervention for Parents From Divorced and Separated Families

Part of paid clinical trials in Tempe, Arizona.

Sponsor
Charla Aubrey Rhodes
Study ID
NCT07529548
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Acceptability
  • Appropriateness
  • Child Mental Health
  • Feasibility Study
  • Interparental Conflict
  • Parent Child Relationship
  • Parenting Behaviour
  • Parenting Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
8 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • New Beginnings Podcast Program — BEHAVIORAL
    Parents will listen to 5 episodes of the New Beginnings Podcast (NBP-P) over 5 weeks. They will listen to one episode per week.
  • No Interventions — OTHER
    Parents in the waitlist group will get access to the podcast after completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study.

Study Details

The goal of this study is to learn if the New Beginnings Podcast can help children whose parents are going through a divorce or separation. The podcast shares parenting strategies that have been shown to help in past in-person and online programs. This study will also look at how easy it is for parents to use the podcast and how helpful they find it. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Do parents find the podcast easy to use, helpful, and relevant? 2. Does listening to the podcast improve children's mental health? 3. Does the podcast help parents build stronger relationships with their children and reduce conflict between parents? Researchers will compare families who use the podcast to families on a waitlist to see if the podcast makes a difference. Participants will: 1. Listen to podcast episodes over the course of the study 2. Answer questions about their experiences with the podcast 3. Complete surveys about their child's well-being, their parenting, and family relationships This study will include 80 parents and their children.

Key Dates

Start date
Aug 15, 2025
Status verified
Aug 2025
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2026
Completion
Dec 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
80 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Podcast Program (Intervention Group)
    Parents in the intervention arm will receive access to five podcast episodes based on the original New Beginnings Program. The episodes teach core parenting skills designed to improve parent-child relationship quality, enhance communication, and reduce children's exposure to interparental conflict. Each episode includes both didactic instruction and audio demonstrations of parent-child interactions. Parents are encouraged to listen to one episode per week. Listening activity is tracked, but parents do not receive financial incentives for completing episodes. Episodes range from 10 to 25 minutes in length, and parents are encouraged to adjust the playback speed as needed to suit their preferences.
  • Experimental: Waitlist (Control Group)
    Waitlist (Control Group): Seven weeks after the initial survey, parents will complete a post-test survey. Upon completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study, all podcast episodes will be made available to the parent.

Primary Outcome Measure

Feasibility of Intervention [ Time Frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group Only ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
ASU Dept of PsychologyTempeArizona85281
Charla Rhodes, PhD
[email protected]
+44 797 685001

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