Recruiting

AMP-CARE

Sponsor:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Code:

NCT07303062

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE)

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this research study is to learn if a parenting program called Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE) can help parents have more confidence in parenting their teen and improve their knowledge about normal teen development and teen mental health. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Does the AMP-CARE parenting program improve confidence in teen parenting and positive parenting?
  • Does the AMP-CARE parenting program improve parent knowledge about mental health?

Researchers will compare participants who complete the parenting program to those who do not.

Participants will:

  • Complete 2 surveys, one at the start of the study and one 6 -12 weeks later
  • Half of the participants will be randomly picked to attend the 6 virtual AMP-CARE sessions right away.
  • The other half will have the opportunity to attend AMP-CARE after they complete the second survey.

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior

Study ID

NCT07303062

Start date

May 28, 2026

Status verified date

Sep, 2026

Completion date

Mar 1, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 1, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Parent or guardian of teen age 11-14 years
  • Receiving primary care at selected study sites
  • English speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Parents of children with severe mental illness (indicated by psychiatric hospitalization in the last 12 months or previous diagnosis of psychosis)
  • Parents of children with severe developmental delay (indicated by prior diagnosis of severe neurodevelopmental impairment, global developmental delay, severe expressive language delay)
  • Not available at time group is scheduled

Study Design

Enrollment

60 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: AMP-CARE

Parents will attend the 6 virtual sessions with a group of about 5-10 parents and 2 facilitators. The AMP-CARE group sessions are held for about 90 minutes once per week. Sessions include didactics, role playing, vignettes, and weekly home practice to build positive parenting techniques.

no intervention: Waitlist Control

Parents in the control group will be offered the intervention after completing the second study questionnaire.

Interventions

Adolescent Mental Health Parenting Program for Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (AMP-CARE)

The goals of AMP-CARE are to teach parents how to form a positive relationship with their teen and to teach about typical adolescent development and mental health. Each AMP-CARE session will be led by 1 or 2 trainers. About 4 to 13 parents will attend each virtual session lasting approximately 1.5 hours. Sessions will be weekly for 6 weeks. Participants are encouraged to practice the skills learned at AMP-CARE between the sessions.

Primary outcome measure

  • Parent Mental Health Literacy [ Time Frame: From enrollment to completion of AMP-CARE program or 6-12 weeks after enrollment. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

UNC Pediatrics at Panther Creek

Recruiting

Cary, North Carolina, United States, 27519

Contacts

Priyanka Rao, MD

(919) 481-4997priyanka_rao@med.unc.edu

UNC Children's Primary and Specialty Care at Carolina Pointe II

Recruiting

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27517

Contacts

Katherine Jordan, MD

(984) 974-6669katherine_jordan@med.unc.edu

Principal Investigator:

Yasamin Sanii, MD

More Information

Sponsor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Last update posted

Sep 18, 2026

Last verified

Sep, 2026

Keywords

  • teen parenting program
  • teen mental health
  • mental health stigma
  • positive parenting
  • parenting self-efficacy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-24. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on 2026-09-18. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.