Digital Prompts to Increase Engagement With the Headspace App and for Stress Regulation Among Parents: Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the interrelated health of children and parents, strategies to promote stress regulation are critically important in the family context. However, the uptake of preventive mental health is limited among parents owing to competing family demands.

Objective

In this study, we aim to determine whether it is feasible and acceptable to randomize digital prompts designed to engage parents in real-time brief mindfulness activities guided by a commercially available app.

Methods

We conducted a 30-day pilot microrandomized trial among a sample of parents who used Android smartphones. Each day during a parent-specified time frame, participants had a 50% probability of receiving a prompt with a message encouraging them to engage in a mindfulness activity using a c

SUBMITTER: Militello L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8981020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature