DAILY GROWTH: CO-DESIGNING A NEW PERSONALISED PARENTING APP TO PREVENT CHILD MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Elizabeth Westrupp, PhD
March 12, 2025
This presentation introduce thes ‘Daily Growth’ parenting app, funded by an NHMRC Ideas grant. Daily Growth is a partnership between Deakin University, Meli, and the external Aboriginal organisation, Wayapa Wuurrk. The Daily Growth app provides 3-minute daily videos personalised to individual parent needs, offering a combination of three programs: ‘Emotion Coaching’, ‘Active Play’ and the Aboriginal-derived earth connection mindfulness practice, ‘Wayapa Wuurrk’. The presentation describes findings from a series of co-design studies (end-user interviews, co-design workshops, pilot studies), the main Daily Growth randomised controlled trial design (n=2,000), and a series of sub-studies focussed on developing and testing brief-behavioural messaging, and implementation strategies.
About the presenter
Associate Professor Liz Westrupp is a child clinical psychologist and co-leads Intervention Sciences in SEED Lifespan at Deakin University. A/Prof Westrupp’s research has focussed on understanding how parents shape and influence child development; and designing and trialling parenting support programs in the community.