Effects of a Brief Mindful Parenting Program for Hong Kong Chinese Impacted by Social Unrest

NCT04427683 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: SR2020.A6.004
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A four session mindful parenting workshop is designed to promote parental mental health during the social unrest in 2020. This study is conducted to investigate the outcome of the program. It is a randomised control trial design and will be conducted in five sites in Hong Kong. An estimated 340 parents will be recruited and randomised into an intervention group and a wait-list control group. The primary outcome is parental depression. Secondary outcomes include parental anxiety and post-traumatic stress, negative emotions, family functioning, family conflict and mindful parenting. Exposure to social unrest will be measured and the relationship to mental health and effects of the program will be examined.

Conditions

Mental Health Issue

Keywords

parent depression; parent mental health; mindfulness-based intervention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Depression

  Self-administered measure Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), 9 items, sum of scores range from 0 to 27, the higher the score, the more severe in depressive symptoms

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Anxiety

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

• Post-traumatic stress

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

• family functioning

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

• family conflict

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

• mindful parenting

  Change from pre-intervention (T0), to 1-month follow up (T1), and to 3-month follow-up (T2).

Study Arms (2)

Brief mindful parenting program

EXPERIMENTAL

The program will consist of a four-session and last for eight hours integrating mindfulness skills and psychoeducation in managing stress under social unrest and promoting strategies for emotion regulation, conflict management, and self-care.

Behavioral: Brief mindful parenting program

Wait-list control group

OTHER

A four-minute educational video will be distributed to the participants who accept the randomisation. It includes brief information on mental health. After the participants from experimental group complete the intervention, those in wait-list control group will receive the same intervention.

Behavioral: Brief mindful parenting program

Interventions

Brief mindful parenting program BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness exercise include formal and informal mindfulness exercises, and additional exercise for coping with anger and arousing emotions. Psychoeducation includes understanding relationship between thoughts and feelings, fight or flight responses and adaptive coping in parenting relationship.

Brief mindful parenting program; Wait-list control group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• parents of adolescents at aged between 10 to 21
• a score of PHQ-9 of 2 or above

You may not qualify if:

• parents with self-reported psychosis, alcohol or substance abuse, individual or family crisis in last six months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: lead

Study Sites (1)

LO, Herman Hay-ming

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Lo HHM, Lau ENS, Tam CHL, Ngai SW, Chan SHW, Leung BFH, Wong ET, Wong EWY, Wong GOC, Cho WC, Tsang AWK, Singh NN. Effects of a Mindful Parenting Workshop for Parents of Adolescents and Young Adults Following Social Unrest in Hong Kong. Mindfulness (N Y). 2022;13(1):248-261. doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01790-7. Epub 2021 Dec 2.

  PMID: 34873419 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Herman, Hay-ming LO, PhD

  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Recruited and eligible participants will be randomised into an intervention group and a wait-list control group.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 5, 2020
• First Posted: June 11, 2020
• Study Start: May 15, 2020
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2020
• Study Completion: September 30, 2020
• Last Updated: April 13, 2021

Record last verified: 2020-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

HK (1)