Parenting Stress mHealth

Description

Parenting stress is a well-documented barrier to youth engagement in community-based substance use treatment. The current project aims to develop and evaluate a mobile health parenting stress intervention for caregivers of justice-involved youth, a population with high rates of substance use and low rates of treatment engagement.

Conditions

Stress

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Parenting stress is a well-documented barrier to youth engagement in community-based substance use treatment. The current project aims to develop and evaluate a mobile health parenting stress intervention for caregivers of justice-involved youth, a population with high rates of substance use and low rates of treatment engagement.

Reducing Parenting Stress to Facilitate Justice-Involved Youth's Treatment

Parenting Stress mHealth

Condition
Stress
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

San Francisco

UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States, 94131

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * currently detained in a juvenile detention center or correctional facility, mandated by the juvenile justice system to a congregate out-of-home placement (e.g., group home);
  • * 12-17 years old;
  • * has an identified substance use or substance use and co-occurring mental health need;
  • * and is scheduled to be released into the community to the care of the enrolled caregiver.
  • * Provide substance use or dual diagnosis treatment justice-involved youth and their caregivers,
  • * be over 18 years old,
  • * and speak English fluently.
  • * 18 years or older
  • * and speak fluent English.
  • * lack of proficiency in English
  • * and cognitive impairment or active psychosis which precludes provision of informed consent.

Ages Eligible for Study

12 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of California, San Francisco,

Johanna B Folk, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of California, San Francisco

Study Record Dates

2025-09-30