Mindfulness-based Intervention and Young Children's Screen Time

NCT07083661 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: RD/2025/1.7
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

This research proposal aims to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on reducing young children's screen time (ST) and caring parents' psychological and social issues in Hong Kong.

Conditions

Screen Time Exposure

Keywords

screen time exposure

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• Screen time exposure - frequency

  Children's screen time exposure including frequency will be record in terms of times per week

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Screen time exposure - duration

  Duration will be record in terms of minutes

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Screen time exposure - nature and content

  Screen time exposure, nature, and content require the parent to provide the types and names of the shows watched by their young children.

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Screen time exposure - viewing behavior

  The parents are required to provide the information on young children's viewing behavior, including singing, role play, discussing issues or discussing the films and shows by selecting from the questionnaire.

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Change in parental stress level

  The Parenting Stress Index - short form. It is a 36-item 5-point Likert scale with three 12-item subscales. Each item is scored from 1 to 5 (1 = "strongly disagree", 5 = "strongly agree"). The lowest score is 36, and the highest score is 180. Higher scores indicated higher parenting stress, and the cutoff point is \>90.

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Change in social support adquency level

  The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Questionnaire is a 12-item questionnaire. Each item is scored from 1 to 7 (1 = "strongly disagree", 7 = "strongly agree"), the lowest score is 12 and the highest score is 84. A higher score defines higher social support from family, friends and significant others.

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in children disruptive behavior

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

• Change in parent-child relationships

  Baseline, week 6, week 18

Other Outcomes (6)

• Feasibility of the study - recruitment and retention rate

  week 6, week 18

• Feasibility of the study - attendance rates

  week 6, week 18

• Feasibility of the study - time required to recruit to target sample size

  week 6, week 18

Study Arms (2)

Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention consists of 6-session mindfulness-based intervention. Each session last for 2 hours. The training will be led by an experience certified mindfulness teacher.

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)

Waistlist control group

NO INTERVENTION

Participants will be required to maintain their usual daily activities without begin any mindfulness and skills programme for 6-week

Interventions

Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE) BEHAVIORAL

Participants will receive a 6-week MORE group training by integration of mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme.

Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 2 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• parent-child dyads resident in Hong Kong;
• child being between 2 and 6- year; and
• child with normal intellectual ability.

You may not qualify if:

• children with major developmental problems, history of domestic violence, drug abuse, or mental illness in the family;
• being unable to communicate and understand Cantonese as the intervention will be conducted in Cantonese; and
• parent-child dyads previous participation in mindfulness-based training for less than 6 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hong Kong Metropolitan University: lead

Study Officials

• Yuen Ling Leung, Doctor of Nursing

  Hong Kong Metropolitan University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Yuen Ling Leung, Doctor of Nursing

CONTACT

39708751; lleung@hkmu.edu.hk

Sze Him, Isaac Leung, PhD in Statistics

CONTACT

3943 9423; shleung@cuhk.edu.hk

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 4, 2025
• First Posted: July 24, 2025
• Study Start: August 1, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 30, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026
• Last Updated: July 24, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share