ArticleInternet interventions2023
The impact of therapeutic persuasiveness on engagement and outcomes in unguided interventions: A randomized pilot trial of a digital parent training program for child behavior problems.
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- Identifying Active Ingredients that Cause Change in Digital Parent Training Programs for Child Behavior Problems: A Qualitative Exploration.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Trial
- Mind the Gap: Exploring Parental Intentions, Actual Engagement, and Associated Outcomes in Tailored Digital Parent Training.Pediatric reports · 2026Article
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- The Impact of Mechanisms of Action on Adherence and Outcomes in Self-Guided Digital Mental Health Interventions: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial With Mediation Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Examining Differential Effects of Digital Parent Training for Child Behavior Problems on Maternal and Paternal Outcomes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Differences Between Stressed Parents and Their Children: A Brief Analysis on Parent-Child Depression, Stress, Aggression and Possible Roles of Digitalized Parenting Education.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Does human support add value to persuasive design-based digital mental health interventions? A propensity score matching study of a digital parenting program.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Are there unique facets of therapeutic alliance for users of digital mental health interventions? An examination with the eHealth Therapeutic Alliance Inventory.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Editorial for INVENT special issue of the ISRII 2022 meeting.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Digital Interventions for Combating Internet Addiction in Young Children: Qualitative Study of Parent and Therapist Perspectives.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2024Article
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Abstract
Understanding how to design engaging unguided digital health interventions is key in our ability to utilize digital tools to improve access to care. Therapeutic persuasiveness (TP) is a design concept that relates to how the digital intervention features as a whole should be designed to encourage users to make positive changes in their lives, while reducing the experienced effort required from them to engage in these activities. In our previous work, we examined the user traffic of publicly available programs, finding programs' TP quality to be a reliable, robust, and stable predictor of real-world usage; however, these findings have not been subject to experimental manipulation in a controlled trial. The current study examined the impact of TP quality in digital parent training programs (DPTs) aimed at treating child's behavior problems. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial comparing two interventions that utilize the same evidence-based content of established DPTs, but that differ in terms of the quality of TP (standard: DPT-STD; enhanced: DPT-TP). Altogether, parents from 88 families who have a child with behavior problems were enrolled in the study. Compared to DPT-STD (
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