A Psychological Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Mainland New Immigrants to Hong Kong

NCT02986022 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HCPF2016
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 241
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: Resilience is important for successful adaptation. The investigators' resilience intervention was effective in enhancing resilience, emotional functioning, and adaptation in Mainland immigrants. In the present proposal, the investigators will work with the International Social Service to scale up application of this intervention in immigrants, and develop the training infrastructure to ensure that the evidence-based intervention can be sustained despite turnover of interventionists. Objectives:

1. 1.We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the resilience intervention with the resilience + information intervention (a compound module) among 200 new immigrants,
2. 2.The resilience intervention will enhance participants' resilience by 5%, and decrease their depressive symptoms by 20% and adaptation difficulties by 10% after the completion of the intervention,
3. 3.The resilience + information intervention will have higher increases in resilience and more decreases in depressive symptoms and adaptation difficulties compared to the resilience intervention, and
4. 4.To establish a sustaining mechanism which ensures that these two interventions can continue to be used in routine services.

Conditions

Resilience

Keywords

Self-efficacy; optimism; altruism; goal setting

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Resilience as assessed by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale

  1 month

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Depressive symptoms as assessed by Patient-Health Questionnaire-9

  1 month

• Adaptation difficulties as assessed by Sociocultural Adaptation Scale

  1 month

• Knowledge measured using the items developed in our previous study

  1 month

Study Arms (2)

Resilience

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will receive four sessions covering Resilience intervention content

Behavioral: Resilience

Resilience+Information

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will receive four sessions covering Resilience intervention and Information intervention contents.

Behavioral: Resilience; Behavioral: Information

Interventions

Resilience BEHAVIORAL

Self-efficacy, optimism, altruism, goal setting

Resilience; Resilience+Information

Information BEHAVIORAL

Information and resources about education, medical care, housing, employment, and community facilities available in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Resilience+Information

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong from Mainland China less than 3 years ago
• have least a primary school education

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

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

Conditions

Altruism

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

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: December 7, 2016
• Primary Completion: February 8, 2018
• Study Completion: March 31, 2018
• Last Updated: July 18, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)