💬In plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
Children are highly sensitive to adversity during their first five years of life, with exposure to chronic parental mental illness (MI) consistently linked to socio-emotional impairments and mental health problems in children. Children born during the COVID-19 pandemic were exposed to unprecedented level of parental distress, with parental MI reported at three times the pre-pandemic rates. This situation underscored a pressing need for scalable solutions to foster positive mental health and developmental outcomes for a generation of children. In response, the investigators developed the Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM) program, an innovative mobile health (mHealth) solution for parents of young children. Clinical trials to date evaluating BEAM have shown promising results, demonstrating reductions in parent depression, anxiety, and harsh parenting practices. This tri
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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Moderate to severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, parenting stress, and/or anger (as measured by the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PSI, and PROMIS-Anger). Those who do not have moderate to severe symptoms will meet with a member of the program research team to determine eligibility. This eligibility decision will be based on clinical judgement, ensuring that those with need can participate.
2. Being a parent or primary caregiver of any gender to an 24- to 71-month-old (i.e., 2-5 year old) child.
3. Living in Manitoba.
4. Able to participate in check ins (15 to 60 minutes) via Zoom, phone, direct messaging with a parent peer coach.
5. 18 years or older.
6. Able to understand/read/speak in English.
7. Willing to complete four 45-min questionnaires.
8. At eligibility screening, a question asks if participants have access to an electronic device for viewing videos and participating in Zoom meetings. Participants who do not have access will be asked to contact the research team. The team may be able to accommodate a limited number of participants by providing relevant devices for the duration of the study.
9. Participants have IP addresses within Manitoba, Canada, as determined by IP address in REDCap at time of eligibility screener questionnaire completion. Participants will be required to securely upload a photo that includes both a valid piece of Manitoba government identification and the participant's face (i.e., a 'selfie').
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Living outside of Manitoba.
2. Being a parent or primary caregiver to a child outside of the ages of 24- to 71-months (i.e., 2-5 years).
3. Previously participated in an earlier BEAM trial.
4. Parents who report self-harm that required medical attention within the past six months or a suicide attempt within the past year will be ineligible to participate in BEAM unless the participant is engaged in individual therapy that attends to this acute risk level with one of the following professionals for the duration of the BEAM program: psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or psychotherapist. The research team will email all prospective participants who are pending eligibility to schedule a phone call. This call will determine whether it is feasible to connect the participant with an individual therapist to manage specific needs before engaging in the BEAM program, and discuss if the BEAM program is the right fit for the participant's present needs.
Co-parents will be permitted to participate in BEAM regardless of current mental health challenges. Therefore, co-parents are only subject to inclusion criterion (3) and criteria (5-9). Instead of meeting inclusion criteria (2), parenting partners must be a "co-parent (e.g., the child's mom, dad, step-parent) or other primary caregiver (e.g., the child's grandma, cousin, uncle, auntie)" to the corresponding participant's 24- to 71-month-old (i.e., 2-5 year old) child. Co-parents will not receive the same pre-trial screening as parent participants, and thus will not be subject to exclusion criteria.
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