A Community-based Resilience Program of Only-child Loss Parents

NCT03328598 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: Central South University
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 144
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

This is a community-based participatory research aiming at helping the only-child loss parents to be happier and resilient from bereavement. It is a psycho-behavioral intervention research. There are two intervention programs in this study. One is derived from a foreign psychotherapy, developed by an American psychologist and has been testified the effectiveness in promoting happiness. Another one is developed by the researchers based on the previous cross-sectional survey and interviews with those bereaved parents. The researchers will apply randomized controlled trial to testify and compare those two intervention programs in a Chinese community.

Conditions

Resilience,Psychological; Bereavement; Happiness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change of psychological resilience

  Psychological resilience is a kind of ability to bounce back from adversity measured by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC).It is a self-reported scale by adding up 25 items and the total score ranges from 0-100, with higher score reflects higher resilience. The differences within two times frame are the changes of psychological resilience.

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Change of depression

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

• Change of subjective well-being

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

• Change of social avoidance

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

• Change of sleeping quality

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

• Change of post-traumatic growth

  Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention

Study Arms (3)

Positive psychology therapy group

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm will be given a positive psychological group intervention developed from an foreign psychotherapy.

Behavioral: Positive psychology therapy group

Resilience promotion therapy group

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm will be given a resilience group intervention developed from our pervious research results.

Behavioral: Resilience promotion therapy group

Controlled routine activity group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This arm will continue to participate in conventional community activities.

Other: Controlled routine activity

Interventions

Positive psychology therapy group BEHAVIORAL

This program is developed from a foreign group program based on positive psychology. The positive psychology therapy lasts 8 weeks, and has a group intervention in each week. The themes of each week are start-up, time gift, positive mind, three good things, a thankful heart, life train, active service, end-up.

Positive psychology therapy group

Resilience promotion therapy group BEHAVIORAL

The other one is developed from research team's previous research results. The resilience promotion therapy lasts 8 weeks, and also has a group intervention in each week. The themes of each week are start-up, mutual help, trust in yourself, thanksgiving feedback, care for yourself, emotional management, end-up.

Resilience promotion therapy group

Controlled routine activity OTHER

Conventional community activities is viewed as an active comparator for controlled group.

Controlled routine activity group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 49 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• has given birth to only one child;
• now has no living birth or adopted child;
• the bereaved mother is older than 49 years in this family(medically maximum age for fertility in China).

You may not qualify if:

• with serious mental disorders or physical illnesses;
• are not able to complete the intervention;
• are not able to finish questionnaire;
• with chewing functional disorder to collect saliva dehydroepiandrosterone.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Central South University: lead

Study Sites (2)

Central South University

Changsha, Hunan, 410013, China

Location

Yangguang Tianshi Care Center

Changsha, Hunan, 410013, China

Location

Related Publications (10)

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  BACKGROUND

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 19, 2017
• First Posted: November 1, 2017
• Study Start: December 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: January 24, 2018
• Study Completion: January 31, 2019
• Last Updated: August 30, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-08

Locations

CN (2)