Jockey Club Support Project

NCT07136064 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: Jockey Club Support Project
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 450
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.

Conditions

Family Relations; Resilience; Emotion Regulation

Keywords

cross-boundary families; resilience; emotion regulation; randomized controlled trial

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• Resilience

  Participants' psychological resilience will be measured by the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Participants will report their perceived psychological resilience of self on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = strongly disagree; 4 = strongly agree). Higher total scores indicate higher levels of psychological resilience.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Cognitive Emotion Regulation

  Participants' use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies will be measured by corresponding subscales of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The study will employ five subscales, including acceptance, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, and putting into perspective, as these strategies are the targets of the intervention. Each subscale includes four items. Participants will report their use of each strategy on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = almost never; 5 = almost always). Higher scores for each subscale indicate more use of the corresponding cognitive emotion regulation strategy.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Behavioral Emotion Regulation

  Participants' use of adaptive behavioral emotion regulation strategies will be measured by corresponding subscales of the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ). The study will employ two subscales (seeking distraction and putting into perspective) as these strategies are the targets of the intervention. Each subscale includes four items. Participants will report their use of each strategy on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = almost never; 5 = almost always). Higher scores for each subscale indicate more use of the corresponding behavioral emotion regulation strategy.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Affective Experiences

  Participants' affective experiences will be measured by the International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Short Form (I-PANAS-SF). Participants will report their experienced positive and negative affect on a 10-item, 5-point Likert scale (1 = never; 5 = always). Higher scores indicate higher levels of positive or negative affect.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Depression and Anxiety Symptoms

  Participants' depression and anxiety symptoms will be measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4). On this 4-point Likert scale from 0 to 3, participants will report their frequency of depression and anxiety symptoms. Higher scores indicate more severe symptoms.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Well-being

  Participants will also complete the 5-item WHO Well-Being Index (WHO-5). They will report their well-being with a 6-point Likert scale (0 = at no time; 5 = all of the time). Higher scores indicate higher levels of well-being.

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Family Resilience

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Family harmony

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Parent-Child Conflicts

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Parenting Self-Efficacy

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Parental Stress

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

Other Outcomes (1)

• Sense of Community

  Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Arm

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.

Behavioral: Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.

Behavioral: Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training

Interventions

Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training BEHAVIORAL

This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.

Control

Emotion Regulation Skills Training BEHAVIORAL

This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.

Intervention Arm

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• have at least one child between the fifth and twelfth grade;
• can participate in the intervention with their child;
• are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
• live in Shenzhen.
• are between the fifth and twelfth grade;
• are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
• live in Shenzhen.

You may not qualify if:

• (a) those who have current diagnoses of severe physical or mental illnesses;

Sponsors & Collaborators

• City University of Hong Kong: lead
• The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust: collaborator
• International Social Services Hong Kong Branch: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

International Social Service Hong Kong Branch

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emotional Regulation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Self-Control; Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Nancy X Yu, Doctoral

  City University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Nancy X Yu, Doctoral

CONTACT

85234429436; nancy.yu@cityu.edu.hk

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 13, 2025
• First Posted: August 22, 2025
• Study Start: November 15, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2028
• Last Updated: February 12, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-02

Locations

CN (1)