Janowski, Roselinde https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2082-9281
Green, Ohad
Shenderovich, Yulia
Stern, David
Clements, Lily
Wamoyi, Joyce
Wambura, Mwita
Lachman, Jamie M.
Melendez-Torres, G. J.
Gardner, Frances
Baerecke, Lauren
Te Winkel, Esmee
Booij, Anna
Setton, Orli
Tsoanyane, Sibongile
Mjwara, Sussie
Christine, Laetitia
Ornellas, Abigail
Chetty, Nicole
Klapwijk, Jonathan
Awah, Isang
Manjengenja, Nyasha
Sokoine, Kudely
Majikata, Sabrina
Cluver, Lucie D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents (Accelerate) Hub (ES/S008101/1)
LEGO Foundation (R75755/GA001)
Oak Foundation (OFIL-21-212)
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (16204)
European Research Council (ERC) under the Proof of Concept 2022-1 Call (101067451)
A private family trust which wishes to remain anonymous
Article History
Received: 25 October 2022
Accepted: 25 May 2023
First Online: 23 June 2023
Declarations
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: Ethics approval has been granted by Tanzania’s National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR/HQ/R.8 s/Vol.IX/3856) and the Departmental Research Ethics Committee at the University of Oxford (R69744/RE001). Written informed consent will be obtained from all participants in the study by research assistants at the in-person onboarding sessions. Before using ParentApp, participants will also be required to accept the app’s Terms and Conditions as well as Privacy Policy, which contain information regarding the study and how personal information from the app will be collected, used, and shared.
: Not applicable.
: ParentApp was developed and implemented by members of the research team. RJs doctoral work is based on this trial. JML is the CEO and LDC is a trustee of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH), a charity based in the United Kingdom. JML also receives occasional fees for providing training and supervision for PLH programmes. YS is supported by the Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) and the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health. DECIPHer is funded by Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales. The Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health has been established with support from the Wolfson Foundation. LDC, FG, JML, GJMT, YS have worked and/or currently work on other studies of PLH, as investigators, and the University of Oxford and Exeter, and Cardiff University receive research grants to support this work. OS receives consultancy fees for designing the app graphics and illustrations. The intellectual property of the intervention is owned by the developers of the original intervention as part of PLH. The app’s code is on Github under a GPL 3 license and the content of the programme is under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). No profit or financial gain will be made from the implementation and dissemination of the intervention. The sponsor and funders had no influence over the study design and will not be involved in its execution, analyses, interpretation of data, and dissemination of results.