Feasibility Study: Being a Parent - Helping Your Child With Fears and Worries

NCT05790343 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: BAPHYC - April 2022 V1.0
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Emotional disorders are among the most common childhood mental health difficulties. The majority of adult emotional disorders begin before age 14 years. Most children and families across the population do not receive the proven evidence-based interventions available, particularly those from socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods and excluded, Black and Minoritised populations. Families from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Black and minoritised communities can often feel judged, mistrustful, and blamed for their children's behavioural difficulties making them reluctant to engage in parenting supportEven when available, research shows that over one-third of parents receiving traditional specialist delivered evidence-based parenting do not gain the expected outcomes. Undertaking a group-based parenting intervention to help parents understand and deal with their children's anxiety issues. The aim of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a new parent-led parenting intervention, being a Parent Helping your Child (BAPHYC) that is intended to improve childhood anxiety and to use the findings to inform the planning and conduct of a definitive randomised control trial. Being a Parent- Helping your Child (BAPHYC) has been developed from two well-established evidence-based parenting programmes. It is a parent-led, group format manualised parenting programme intended to improve childhood anxiety in children aged 5-12 years consisting of eight two-hourly weekly sessions peer-facilitated by two trained parent group leaders. The particants of BAPHYC participants are mothers, fathers and other carers who have principal parenting responsibility for a child with anxiety. The specific study objectives are to:

1. 1.Establish initial evidence about reach and engagement, delivery, acceptability and impact of BAPHYC
2. 2.Establish the feasibility of proposed recruitment pathways and measure completion
3. 3.Acquire a fine grain understanding of parents' experiences of the BAPHYC intervention, research procedures and themes arising from BAPHYC implementation.
4. 4.Assess participant recruitment, engagement, intervention and measure completion, and intervention acceptability rates against a priori feasibility parameters.
5. 5.Obtain data that will be used in future trial recruitment and planning.

Conditions

Feasibility; Anxiety; Empowerment; Peer Influence

Keywords

Peer led intervention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Child Anxiety Impact Scale for Parents - change is being assessed

  A 27-item parent-report measure assessing the impact of anxiety symptoms on the psychosocial functioning of children and adolescents (Langley, Bergman, McCracken, \& Piacentini, 2004). It provides a quantitative measure of anxiety related functional impairment related to specific situations from multiple psychosocial domains (School, Social, Home/Family). It was designed as both a baseline measure and to evaluate treatment response. The respondents are asked to rate how much difficulty the child has had completing each activity due to his or her anxiety symptoms during the last month. Each item is scored on a 4-point Likert scale ("0" not at all, "1" just a little, "2" pretty much, "3" very much). Sum of subscales, or overall total score of the scale

  "baseline, pre-intervention/procedure/surgery" and "immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery"

Other Outcomes (7)

• Treatment Acceptability Rating Scale

  "immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery"

• Concerns About My Child (CAMC) - Change is being assessed

  "baseline, pre-intervention/procedure/surgery" and "immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery"

• Parenting Scale (PS, 8) - Change is being assessed

  "baseline, pre-intervention/procedure/surgery" and "immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery"

Study Arms (1)

BAPHYC

Parents of children, aged 5-12 years, who have anxiety problems.

Behavioral: BAPHYC

Interventions

BAPHYC BEHAVIORAL

Nine weekly peer led group meetings

BAPHYC

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Parent or parental caregiver including non-biological caregiver, for index child aged 5-12 years

You may qualify if:

• Parent/ primary caregiver, including non-biological caregiver, for index child aged 5-12 years.
• Parent-reported difficulties and concerns in managing anxiety of an index child. In households with more than one child aged 5-12 years, we ask the parents to nominate an index child whose behaviour was of greatest concern.
• Parent/ primary caregiver must have proficient written and spoken English.
• Parent/ primary must have capacity to provide informed consent to participate.

You may not qualify if:

• Families where the parent/ parental caregiver:
• The nominated index child of the parent/ primary caregiver has a primary neurodevelopmental condition such as autism, for which parent is likely to require specialist parenting intervention.
• The parent / primary caregiver is unable to attend weekly course sessions of the BAPHYC intervention.
• The parent / primary caregiver is not living with the index child and is unlikely to have sufficient contact to implement parenting skills acquired during the BAPHYC intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• King's College London: lead
• University of Oxford: collaborator
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders; Empowerment

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders; Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Crsipin Day

  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Bernadette Khoshaba

CONTACT

+442078480877; bernadette.khoshaba@kcl.ac.uk

Karen Yirmiya

CONTACT

karen.yirmiya@kcl.ac.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: FAMILY BASED
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 2, 2023
• First Posted: March 30, 2023
• Study Start: September 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: March 31, 2024
• Study Completion: July 31, 2024
• Last Updated: July 21, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share