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NCT06145919
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Parent-Child Memory Study: Improving Future Thinking Among Mothers

Sponsor: Henry Ford Health System

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Summary

Parents of children from impoverished communities are disproportionately more likely to engage in harsh physical discipline, which can lead to serious clinical outcomes, including suicidal ideation and attempts. One mechanism linking low resource environments and maladaptive parenting strategies is maternal delay discounting, or the tendency to value smaller, immediate rewards (such as stopping children's misbehavior via physical means) relative to larger, but delayed rewards (like improving the parent-child relationship). This study will examine the efficacy of implementing a low-cost, brief intervention targeting the reduction of maternal delay discounting to inform broader public health efforts aimed at improving adolescent mental health outcomes in traditionally underserved communities.

Official title: Parent-Child Memory Study: Improving Future Thinking Among Mothers From a Traditionally Underserved Community to Reduce Harsh Parenting and Improve Child Outcomes - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Key Details

Gender

FEMALE

Age Range

5 Years - Any

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

144

Start Date

2024-02-06

Completion Date

2025-08-31

Last Updated

2025-05-14

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Future Thinking (EFT)

The adapted episodic future thinking (EFT) intervention will focus on generation of vivid, substance-free, rewarding events that could happen in the future with their children.

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Recent Thinking (ERT)

In the episodic recent thinking (ERT) condition, the participant will instead describe in vivid details events that have occurred in the recent past.

Locations (1)

Mothers of Joy Institute for Parenting and Family Wellness, Inc

Flint, Michigan, United States