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The problem
Intervention: Parental use of digital tracking tools monitoring school performance, location, and finances
Who it was tested with: 525 Dutch parent-adolescent dyads (adolescents aged 11-18, mean age 14.1 years; 53% female) and a replication sample of 175 dyads.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"This is a multi-informant, cross-sectional survey study (2024) including 525 Dutch parent-adolescent dyads" with a comparison sample from 2019 to assess temporal changes. The study measures associations between tracking and well-being outcomes (anxiety, adjustment) but cannot establish causal relationships due to its cross-sectional design for the primary 2024 sample, placing it at PRE_POST tier rather than experimental.
Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference; limited to Dutch context; does not examine longitudinal effects or whether tracking reassures or reinforces parental fears over time; lacks objective measures of adolescent well-being beyond self-reported anxiety.
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