AI coach for parents: could an app tame tantrums?
NCT ID NCT07469215
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether adding an AI app to standard behavioral parent training helps families with children aged 5-12 who have disruptive behaviors like irritability or ADHD. Forty parents will either attend 8 weekly online training sessions alone or with 24/7 access to an AI virtual assistant for real-time coaching. Researchers will measure if the app is easy to use and whether it reduces child behavior problems and parental stress.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) with or without an AI app
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that an AI app makes parent training more effective and accessible, reducing children's disruptive behaviors and parental stress.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small pilot study with only 40 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The AI app may not provide significant extra benefit over standard training.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Apr 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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5 to 12 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Being a primary caregiver with a child aged 5 to 12 years exhibiting disruptive behaviors (e.g., symptoms of ODD, CD, IED, ADHD, and/or unspecified behavioral problems). * Having access to an electronic device and regular internet access. * Stable concomitant intervention including medications throughout the study. * Speak Spanish or Catalan language. * Signed informed consent by parents or legal guardians of the child. Exclusion Criteria: * Having ASD as primary diagnosis. * Psychosis, self-harming behaviors, severe mood disorder. * Known Intelligent quotient \< 70 * Caregivers and/or children receiving any concurrent psychological treatment. * No signing the informant consent.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hospital Sant Joan de Déu
RECRUITINGBarcelona, Barcelona, 08950, Spain
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