RECRUITING Not applicable ClinicalTrials.gov

Online Parent Education for Child Anxiety

Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT07153250

Registry updated: 2026-10-06

Recruiting for Similar Conditions?

Sponsors are looking for patients like you. See if you qualify for compensated research studies.

Description

The investigators are doing this research to test whether parents of children ages 2-7 can better manage their child's anxiety by completing a brief, online, self-guided parent education program. One way to provide anxiety management skills to more children, and to potentially prevent worsening outcomes, is to offer online and self-guided educational programs that parents can complete without a clinician. This randomized trial will evaluate the effects of two brief, online, self-guided parent education programs designed to improve parents' understanding of anxiety and teach parents way to help their children cope with anxiety. Parents will be randomly assigned to one of the three programs. The main aim of the study is to examine whether the parent programs, compared to an educational control reduce parental accommodation of anxiety across a 1-, 4-, and 8-month follow-up period. As a secondary aim, the investigators will explore whether the parent programs reduce children's anxiety symptoms over the 8-month follow-up period. Results will inform the development of a scalable, low-cost model for promoting access to evidence-based treatment to young children.

Interventions

Project EMPOWER (Behavioral)
Project EMPOWER is a web-based, self-administered program for parents that takes about 20 minutes to complete.
Being Brave Parent Education (Behavioral)
Being Brave Parent Education is an online, self-guided program which consists of three brief video-recorded lessons (approximately 20 minutes each) with accompanying knowledge checks and workbook on implementing parent-directed cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Sharing Feelings (Behavioral)
A self-guided 20-minute educational control, that teaches parents about the importance of sharing feelings and about helpful versus unhelpful expression of emotion.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Parents will be eligible to participate if: 1. Their child is between the age of 2 and 7 years-old 2. Their child scores in the elevated range on an age-approrpiate anxiety screening measure 3. Parents are English-speaking 4. Parents are over the age of 18 years old Exclusion Criteria: Parents will be excluded if: (1) Their child shows symptoms of suicidal or homicidal ideation, psychosis, or primary severe mood or behavior disorder (i.e., if treatment for another disorder other than anxiety is indicate prior to treatment for anxiety)

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Partner with Nurenyx

Showcase your study to thousands of motivated patients matching your criteria.

Learn More

Official Source

Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

View Official Record

Accelerate Your Clinical Trial Recruitment