# Digital implementation support strategies for caregiver home practice

> **NIH DA K01** · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · 2026 · $73,784

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
Many evidence-based preventative interventions have been developed to prevent substance use, physical and
mental illness, and promote positive educational and social outcomes among adolescents. Among these,
caregiver-mediated interventions boast strong effects that are mediated by effective parenting skills. However,
the impact of these interventions is severely limited by low rates of home practice of intervention skills among
caregivers. To address this research-to-practice gap, researchers have been investigating barriers and
facilitators of caregiver engagement, focusing in large part on intervention attendance. Strategies for increasing
caregivers' home practice of skills remain underexamined. Yet, caregiver home practice is a key component of
theorized intervention effectiveness and has been found to impact parenting behaviors and subsequent child
outcomes over and above that of attendance. Therefore, the next important step in supporting parenting
behavior change is to develop implementation support strategies for evidence-based interventions that target
caregiver home practice specifically. This K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award will develop
and pilot a digital behavior change intervention for use as an adjunct to an evidence-based preventative
intervention. The digital behavior change intervention aims to increase caregivers' home practice of
intervention skills. Informed by the theory of planned behavior, habit formation principles, and relapse
prevention theory, the intervention will leverage mobile health technologies (mHealth) to circumvent and
problem solve common barriers to home practice including home practice intention, frequency of practice,
home practice competence, and maintenance of intervention skills. The intervention will be developed as a
smartphone application (i.e., “app”) with components informed by a qualitative assessment of barriers to
caregiver home practice and refined through direct stakehol

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11410120
- **Project number:** 3K01DA055118-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
- **Principal Investigator:** Joanna Jandee Kim
- **Activity code:** K01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** DA
- **Fiscal year:** 2026
- **Award amount:** $73,784
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2026-01-01T00:00:00 → 2027-07-31T00:00:00

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11410120

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11410120, Digital implementation support strategies for caregiver home practice (3K01DA055118-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11410120. Licensed CC0.

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