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Online Parent Education for Child Anxiety
Evaluating the Effects of Self-Guided Interventions for Parents of Young Children With Anxiety
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes
Full 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)
About the study
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.
What is being tested
- Project EMPOWER (behavioral)
- Being Brave Parent Education (behavioral)
- Sharing Feelings (behavioral)
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Participants: 90 · Started: Sep 1, 2025
Contact the study team
- Madelaine R Abel, PhD · Phone: 617-643-9435
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07153250
Locations in the U.S.
| Massachusetts | Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.