Recruiting

New Beginnings Podcast

Sponsor:

Charla Aubrey Rhodes

Code:

NCT07529548

Conditions

Parent Child Relationship

Parenting Intervention

Parenting Behaviour

Interparental Conflict

Feasibility Study

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

New Beginnings Podcast Program

No Interventions

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this study is to learn if the New Beginnings Podcast can help children whose parents are going through a divorce or separation. The podcast shares parenting strategies that have been shown to help in past in-person and online programs. This study will also look at how easy it is for parents to use the podcast and how helpful they find it.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Do parents find the podcast easy to use, helpful, and relevant?
2. Does listening to the podcast improve children's mental health?
3. Does the podcast help parents build stronger relationships with their children and reduce conflict between parents?

Researchers will compare families who use the podcast to families on a waitlist to see if the podcast makes a difference.

Participants will:

1. Listen to podcast episodes over the course of the study
2. Answer questions about their experiences with the podcast
3. Complete surveys about their child's well-being, their parenting, and family relationships

This study will include 80 parents and their children.

Conditions

Parent Child Relationship

Parenting Intervention

Parenting Behaviour

Interparental Conflict

Feasibility Study

Study ID

NCT07529548

Start date

Aug 15, 2025

Status verified date

Aug, 2025

Completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

For Parents, eligibility criteria are:

1. divorced, separated, separated but never married, or divorcing/separating within the last two years;
2. one or more children between the ages of 8-18 years old;
3. have in-person contact with their child(ren) at least three hours per week or have at least one overnight visit every other week;
4. have access to a smartphone with internet that can play audio files;
5. English speaking.

For children, eligibility criteria are:

1. have a parent who is participating in the trial;
2. be between the ages of 8-18 and
3. have access to a computer to complete assessments. If a parent has more than one child aged 8-18 interested in participating, we will randomly select one child to ensure independence of responses.

Exclusion Criteria:

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Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Podcast Program (Intervention Group)

Parents in the intervention arm will receive access to five podcast episodes based on the original New Beginnings Program. The episodes teach core parenting skills designed to improve parent-child relationship quality, enhance communication, and reduce children's exposure to interparental conflict. Each episode includes both didactic instruction and audio demonstrations of parent-child interactions.

Parents are encouraged to listen to one episode per week. Listening activity is tracked, but parents do not receive financial incentives for completing episodes. Episodes range from 10 to 25 minutes in length, and parents are encouraged to adjust the playback speed as needed to suit their preferences.

experimental: Waitlist (Control Group)

Waitlist (Control Group): Seven weeks after the initial survey, parents will complete a post-test survey. Upon completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study, all podcast episodes will be made available to the parent.

Interventions

New Beginnings Podcast Program

Parents will listen to 5 episodes of the New Beginnings Podcast (NBP-P) over 5 weeks.

They will listen to one episode per week.

No Interventions

Parents in the waitlist group will get access to the podcast after completion of the post-test survey or withdrawal from the study.

Primary outcome measure

  • Feasibility of Intervention [ Time Frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group Only ]
  • Usability of Intervention [ Time Frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only ]
  • Acceptability of Intervention [ Time Frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only ]
  • Appropriateness of Intervention [ Time Frame: Collected at Post-test only (Week 7) for Intervention Group only ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Charla A Rhodes, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

‪(602) 767-2426‬carhode1@asu.edu

Locations

ASU Dept of Psychology

Recruiting

Tempe, Arizona, United States, 85281

Contacts

Charla Rhodes, PhD

+44 797 685001aubrey.rhodes@kcl.ac.uk

More Information

Sponsor

Charla Aubrey Rhodes

Last update posted

Apr 14, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2025

Keywords

  • Parenting
  • Divorce
  • Separation
  • Separated and Divorced Parents
  • Podcast
  • Prevention
  • Parenting Intervention
  • New Beginnings Program
  • Child Mental Health

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Charla Aubrey Rhodes on 2026-04-14.