OBJECTIVE Parents have profound impacts on adolescents' health behaviors. Yet parents receive minimal training in the elements of conversations that optimally inspire their children toward engaging in healthy behaviors. The current study examines a novel interpersonal target: parent-adolescent conversations about adolescent health behavior change. Derived from advances in the science of behavior change, the Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I) contains conversational elements (e.g., behavior change techniques, positive communication strategies) hypothesized to reduce parent-adolescent coercion and conflict and facilitate upward spirals of healthy behavior change in adolescents. METHOD/DESIGN The first phase of the study involves the development of the PBC-I in a small case series (N = 12 dyads). The second phase involves an open trial of the PBC-I (N = 36 dyads). Adolescents will receive six 50-min sessions of the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention to improve sleep while their parents receive six50-min sessions of the PBC-I. Parent-adolescent dyads will be assessed before and after the intervention. The primary analysis will examine whether postintervention use of behavior change techniques and positive communication strategies by parents is higher than preintervention use and whether increased use by parents predicts more positive conversational behaviors, less parent-adolescent conflict, higher adolescent motivation for change, and improved adolescent sleep. DISCUSSION This research provides an initial test of the hypothesis that improving the parent-adolescent conversation will improve adolescent sleep health behavior. While sleep-related health behaviors are the focus of this study, the research is designed to be relevant to a broad range of health behavior change in young people. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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家长行为改变干预（PBC-1）的公开试验：研究方案。

目的父母对青少年的健康行为产生深远的影响。然而，父母在谈话内容中接受的培训最少，可以最大程度地激发孩子养成健康的行为。当前的研究检验了一个新颖的人际交往目标：关于青少年健康行为改变的父母－青少年对话。源自行为改变科学的进步，“父母行为改变干预”（PBC-I）包含一些对话元素（例如，行为改变技术，积极的沟通策略），旨在降低父母与青少年之间的强迫和冲突并促进健康行为的螺旋上升青少年的变化。方法/设计研究的第一阶段涉及小病例系列（N = 12 dyads）中PBC-1的开发。第二阶段涉及PBC-1的公开试验（N = 36双）。青少年将接受六次每次50分钟的经诊断性睡眠和昼夜节律干预以改善睡眠，而其父母则接受六次50分钟的PBC-1。干预前后将评估父母-青少年双性体。初步分析将检查父母干预后对行为改变技术和积极沟通策略的使用是否高于干预前对父母的使用，以及父母对使用行为的增加是否预示着更多积极的对话行为，父母与青少年之间的冲突减少，青少年改变的动机更高以及青少年改善睡觉。讨论本研究提供了以下假设的初步检验：改善父母与青少年的对话将改善青少年的睡眠健康行为。尽管与睡眠有关的健康行为是本研究的重点，但该研究旨在与年轻人中广泛的健康行为变化相关。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。