Be Good Parents (Parent Education)

NCT02986009 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: FC2016
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 353
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The collaborator has its vision as "To have children, individuals, families and migrants across countries live in dignity and harmony, and be contributing members to a just, humane and caring society." Parents are very significant in the families as they need nurturing, discipline, teaching, monitoring, and managing their children as well as their families. Capable and competent parents bring good child outcome and happy family. The investigators planned to serve targeted parents in two areas as 1. Emotion management and 2. Information on community resource. In the first set, the participants are expected to improve their emotion management leading to a more effective parenting. In the second set, the participants would acquire more information that enables them to better use the community resources. To work closely with the collaborator, and based on the previous results of an effective parenting intervention, the investigators will modify the intervention to tailor the needs of targeted parents. The objectives are:

1. 1.After completing the parenting intervention, 150 participants will, 1.1. To increase participants' emotion management strategies by 20%, 1.2. To enhance positive affect by 10%, 1.3. To decrease negative affect by 10%, 1.4. To enhance satisfaction with the parent-child relationship by 10%, 1.5. To increase subjective happiness by 8%, 1.6. To enhance family harmony by 5%, These levels of positive effects of the program were projected from the investigators' published findings.
2. 2.After joining the information sessions about education, health care, housing, employment, and community facilities, another 150 participants will, 2.1 To know more information of Hong Kong by 50%, 2.2 To know more information of Mainland China by 50%, 2.3 To use more community resources either in Hong Kong or Mainland China by 50%.

Conditions

Parenting

Keywords

emotion management; positive and negative affect; satisfaction with parent-child relationship; subjective happiness; family harmony

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Frequency of emotion management strategies as assessed by 10 self-developed items

  Example items include "stop thinking about the situation and do something else", "relax to calm down", "think of the reasons for child's behavior", "talk to family or friends", and "manage anger when child misbehaves"

  1 month

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Positive and negative affect as assessed by 10 items from the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

  1 month

• Satisfaction with parent-child relationship as assessed by a single item from the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale

  1 month

• Subjective happiness as assessed by four-item Subjective Happiness Scale

  1 month

• Family harmony as assessed by Generic Family Harmony Scale

  1 month

• Knowledge of Hong Kong as assessed by 20 self-developed questions

  1 month

Study Arms (2)

Parenting

EXPERIMENTAL

To receive the parenting intervention

Behavioral: Parenting

Information

EXPERIMENTAL

To receive the information intervention

Behavioral: Information

Interventions

Parenting BEHAVIORAL

The parenting intervention consists of four weekly sessions, each lasting two hours. The intervention was designed according to the parenting characteristics of Chinese parents in Hong Kong. The four sessions cover: 1) response modification ("stop and rest"), 2) relaxation/enhancing positive moods ("relax and play"), 3) cognitive reframing ("think"), and 4) using social support ("talk and share). Discussion, practice, and questions are involved in each session.

Parenting

Information BEHAVIORAL

The information intervention consists of four weekly sessions, each lasting for two hours. The contents cover information and resources about education, medical care, housing, employment, and community facilities available in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Information

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• The parents of cross-boundary and new arrival children whose children born or moved to Hong Kong with the one-way exit permits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• City University of Hong Kong: lead
• International Social Service Hong Kong Branch: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Psychological Tests

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• Nancy Xiaonan Yu

  City University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2016
• First Posted: December 7, 2016
• Study Start: March 2, 2017
• Primary Completion: November 29, 2017
• Study Completion: January 15, 2018
• Last Updated: January 25, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)