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New paper: a parent intervention to promote adolescent sleep health

20 November 2024

New paper finds that a new parent intervention may support adolescents in changing sleep behaviour, and post intervention there was improved communication and less conflict between parents and adolescents.

Improving parent-adolescent conversation to promote adolescent sleep health behaviour change

The Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I) was developed to target parent–adolescent conversations that promote adolescent health behavior change.

Highlights

  • A new parent intervention may support adolescents in changing sleep behavior.
  • Post PBC-I, parents did not increase overall use of behavior change techniques.
  • Post PBC-I, parents used more positive and less negative communication.
  • Post PBC-I, parent and adolescent coercion and conflict outcomes were reduced.

Revised open access version now available:

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