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Digital Behavioral Parenting Programs With and Without Added Emotion Regulation Strategies to Manage Anger in Parenting
Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
Summary
This pilot randomized controlled trial evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of two digital parenting interventions for parents experiencing difficulties with anger in parenting. The interventions are internet-delivered adaptations of evidence-based parenting programs, collectively called the Supporting Healthier Interactions in Families by Online Tools (SHIFT) parenting programs. The main questions the study aims to answer are: 1. Are the study procedures and design feasible for a full-scale RCT? 2. Are the SHIFT parenting programs feasible and acceptable? 3. How do therapists and parents experience the SHIFT parenting programs? 4. Is participation in one of the SHIFT parenting programs, relative to the other and relative to waitlist control, associated with improvements in parent-reported intervention outcomes? 5. Is participation in the SHIFT parenting programs, relative to each other and waitlist control, associated with improvement in weekly measures of target mechanisms? Researchers will compare the two programs against each other and against a waitlist control. The first intervention (SHIFT) is a behavioral parent training (BPT) program with parenting strategies to manage child behavior problems. The second intervention (SHIFT+) includes the same BPT strategies with emotion regulation (ER) techniques from anger-management treatments. Participants will: * Be randomized to SHIFT, SHIFT+ or waitlist control. * Take part in one of the digital interventions and receive support in text messages and phone calls from a therapist at family support services in Swedish municipalities. Some participants will take part in the intervention after the waitlist period. * Respond to questionnaires and take part in interviews.
Official title: Digital Parenting Programs to Manage Anger in Parenting: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Behavioral Parent Training With and Without Added Emotion Regulation Strategies and a Waitlist Control
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
90
Start Date
2026-09-07
Completion Date
2027-12-31
Last Updated
2026-08-31
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Online Behavioral Parent Training Program
A 6-week digital parent training program incorporating core components from established behavioral parent training programs. Delivered via a secure digital platform with one module per week, text-based therapist support from family support workers, and two brief check-in telephone calls. Strategies include: strengthening parent-child relationship (e.g., child-directed play), understanding how parents' behavior triggers and reinforces child behavior, selective attention and praise for positive behavior, preparations and effective commands, and natural consequences.
Online Behavioral Parent Training + Emotion Regulation Program
A 6-week digital program that integrates the same parenting strategies as SHIFT with additional emotion regulation strategies from anger-management treatments. Matched to SHIFT in duration and therapist contact. Emotion regulation strategies include: early identification and interruption of anger escalation, emotional awareness and self-validation, cognitive reappraisal, effective communication, and managing vulnerability to anger.
Locations (5)
Danderyds kommun
Danderyd, Sweden
Gislaveds kommun
Gislaved, Sweden
Linköpings kommun
Linköping, Sweden
Österåkers kommun
Österåker, Sweden
Uppsala kommun
Uppsala, Sweden