Screen Time ExposureNCT07083661
Mindfulness-based Intervention and Young Children's Screen Time
A study testing Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) in people with Screen Time Exposure, run by Hong Kong Metropolitan University at 1 site in Hong Kong.
Trial summary
This research proposal aims to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on reducing young children's screen time (ST) and caring parents' psychological and social issues in Hong Kong. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 2 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Screen Time Exposure
- What is being tested?
- Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 60 participants
- Where
- 1 siteHong Kong
- Study dates
- 20 Aug 2025to 31 Dec 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 2 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- parent-child dyads resident in Hong Kong;
- child being between 2 and 6- year; and
- child with normal intellectual ability.
Who cannot join
- children with major developmental problems, history of domestic violence, drug abuse, or mental illness in the family;
- being unable to communicate and understand Cantonese as the intervention will be conducted in Cantonese; and
- parent-child dyads previous participation in mindfulness-based training for less than 6 months.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
Hong Kong1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Hong Kong
Yuen Ling LEUNG, (852)39708751
About this study
Official title: Mindfulness-based Intervention on Parent Empowerment in Reducing Young Children's Screen Time (MORE): a Mixed Method Study
This research proposal aims to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on reducing young children's screen time (ST) and caring parents' psychological and social issues in Hong Kong.
Read the detailed description
The research design was a two-arm waitlist, randomised controlled study with a focus group interview with 60 participants. The intervention integrates the mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme, and is named as MORE (i.e. Mindfulness-based intervention On parent empowerment in REducing children's screen time). The intervention consists of 6 weeks of MBI training, each lasting for 2 hours, led by an experienced certified mindfulness teacher. The intervention programme consists of three components: (1) skill part - 4 lessons talk about parenting skills (Praising, token system, response cost, planned ignorance, quiet zone); (2) skill part - 2 lessons talk about child-parent communication (building relationship, communication strategies); and (3) mindfulness part - mindfulness-based training. The primary outcomes are young children's ST and children's disruptive behaviour. Feasibility outcomes include recruitment rate, retention rate, and acceptability of the interventions. Secondary outcomes include parent-child relationships, parents' perceptions of their abilities to manage the demands of parenting, parental stress level, and social support adequacy. The proposal also includes plans for focus group interviews with participants to gather qualitative data. Analyses will include descriptive statistics, Pearson's chi-square test, Pearson's product-moment correlations, One-way ANOVA. A p-value < 0.05 will be taken as the level of statistical significant. The 95% Confidence interval (CI) around the differences will be calculated. For qualitative data, the results will be analyzed descriptively and narratively. The proposal highlights the potential of MBI for reducing young children's ST, as well as improving children-parent relationships, enhancing the efficacy and satisfaction level of the parents, and reducing the stress level of the parents.
- Conditions
- Screen Time Exposure
- Being tested
- Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)
- Keywords
- screen time exposure
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)Behavioural
Participants will receive a 6-week MORE group training by integration of mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) | Experimental | The intervention consists of 6-session mindfulness-based intervention. Each session last for 2 hours. The training will be led by an experience certified mindfulness teacher. Receives: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) |
| Waistlist control group | No intervention | Participants will be required to maintain their usual daily activities without begin any mindfulness and skills programme for 6-week |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Screen time exposure - frequency
Children's screen time exposure including frequency will be record in terms of times per week
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Screen time exposure - duration
Duration will be record in terms of minutes
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Screen time exposure - nature and content
Screen time exposure, nature, and content require the parent to provide the types and names of the shows watched by their young children.
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Screen time exposure - viewing behavior
The parents are required to provide the information on young children's viewing behavior, including singing, role play, discussing issues or discussing the films and shows by selecting from the questionnaire.
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Change in parental stress level
The Parenting Stress Index - short form. It is a 36-item 5-point Likert scale with three 12-item subscales. Each item is scored from 1 to 5 (1 = "strongly disagree", 5 = "strongly agree"). The lowest score is 36, and the highest score is 180. Higher scores indicated higher parenting stress, and the cutoff point is >90.
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Change in social support adquency level
The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Questionnaire is a 12-item questionnaire. Each item is scored from 1 to 7 (1 = "strongly disagree", 7 = "strongly agree"), the lowest score is 12 and the highest score is 84. A higher score defines higher social support from family, friends and significant others.
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Secondary outcomes (2)
Change in children disruptive behavior
The Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory is a 36-item questionnaire that consists of two subscales: the intensity scale and the problem scale. The intensity scale assesses the common child behavior problems frequency from 1 to 7 (1 = "never", 7 = "always"), and the problem scale assesses the extent to which the parents find the troublesome behavior in "yes" or "no". The lowest score is 36, and the highest score is 252. Higher scores indicate more child behavior problems.
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Change in parent-child relationships
The Parenting Sense of Competence Scale is a 6-point Likert scale with 15-item. Each item is scored from 1 to 6 (1 = "strongly disagree", 6 = "strongly agree"), the lowest score is 15, and the highest score is 90. A higher score represents a better parent-child relationship
Measured: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 Jul 2025
- Study start20 Aug 2025
- Primary completion30 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion31 Dec 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Screen Time ExposureStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Yuen Ling Leung, Doctor of Nursing, Principal investigator, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07083661
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- RD/2025/1.7
- Status last verified
- Jul 2025
- First submitted
- 4 Jul 2025
- Last updated
- 8 Jul 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 8 Jul 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Mindfulness-based Intervention on Parent Empowerment in Reducing Young Children's Screen Time (MORE): a Mixed Method Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07083661
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- RD/2025/1.7
- Conditions
- Screen Time Exposure
- Keywords
- screen time exposure
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Hong Kong Metropolitan UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 20 Aug 2025 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 31 Dec 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 24 Jul 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This research proposal aims to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on reducing young children's screen time (ST) and caring parents' psychological and social issues in Hong Kong.
Detailed description
The research design was a two-arm waitlist, randomised controlled study with a focus group interview with 60 participants. The intervention integrates the mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme, and is named as MORE (i.e. Mindfulness-based intervention On parent empowerment in REducing children's screen time). The intervention consists of 6 weeks of MBI training, each lasting for 2 hours, led by an experienced certified mindfulness teacher. The intervention programme consists of three components: (1) skill part - 4 lessons talk about parenting skills (Praising, token system, response cost, planned ignorance, quiet zone); (2) skill part - 2 lessons talk about child-parent communication (building relationship, communication strategies); and (3) mindfulness part - mindfulness-based training. The primary outcomes are young children's ST and children's disruptive behaviour. Feasibility outcomes include recruitment rate, retention rate, and acceptability of the interventions. Secondary outcomes include parent-child relationships, parents' perceptions of their abilities to manage the demands of parenting, parental stress level, and social support adequacy. The proposal also includes plans for focus group interviews with participants to gather qualitative data. Analyses will include descriptive statistics, Pearson's chi-square test, Pearson's product-moment correlations, One-way ANOVA. A p-value < 0.05 will be taken as the level of statistical significant. The 95% Confidence interval (CI) around the differences will be calculated. For qualitative data, the results will be analyzed descriptively and narratively. The proposal highlights the potential of MBI for reducing young children's ST, as well as improving children-parent relationships, enhancing the efficacy and satisfaction level of the parents, and reducing the stress level of the parents.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) | Experimental | Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)The intervention consists of 6-session mindfulness-based intervention. Each session last for 2 hours. The training will be led by an experience certified mindfulness teacher. |
| Waistlist control group | No intervention | –Participants will be required to maintain their usual daily activities without begin any mindfulness and skills programme for 6-week |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 2 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- parent-child dyads resident in Hong Kong;
- child being between 2 and 6- year; and
- child with normal intellectual ability.
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- children with major developmental problems, history of domestic violence, drug abuse, or mental illness in the family;
- being unable to communicate and understand Cantonese as the intervention will be conducted in Cantonese; and
- parent-child dyads previous participation in mindfulness-based training for less than 6 months.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)Participants will receive a 6-week MORE group training by integration of mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme. | Behavioural | Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) |
Primary outcome
Screen time exposure - frequency
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Children's screen time exposure including frequency will be record in terms of times per week
Screen time exposure - duration
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Duration will be record in terms of minutes
Screen time exposure - nature and content
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Screen time exposure, nature, and content require the parent to provide the types and names of the shows watched by their young children.
Screen time exposure - viewing behavior
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
The parents are required to provide the information on young children's viewing behavior, including singing, role play, discussing issues or discussing the films and shows by selecting from the questionnaire.
Change in parental stress level
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
The Parenting Stress Index - short form. It is a 36-item 5-point Likert scale with three 12-item subscales. Each item is scored from 1 to 5 (1 = "strongly disagree", 5 = "strongly agree"). The lowest score is 36, and the highest score is 180. Higher scores indicated higher parenting stress, and the cutoff point is >90.
Change in social support adquency level
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Questionnaire is a 12-item questionnaire. Each item is scored from 1 to 7 (1 = "strongly disagree", 7 = "strongly agree"), the lowest score is 12 and the highest score is 84. A higher score defines higher social support from family, friends and significant others.
2 secondary outcomes
Change in children disruptive behavior
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Change in parent-child relationships
Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 8 Jul 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Yuen Ling Leung, Doctor of Nursing principal investigator
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) in people with Screen Time Exposure, run by Hong Kong Metropolitan University at 1 site in Hong Kong.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Jul 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Hong Kong. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Yuen Ling Leung, Doctor of Nursing (39708751, lleung@hkmu.edu.hk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Screen time exposure - frequency (time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18). The study lists 6 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 8 Jul 2026.