None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Triple P - Positive Parenting Program,as the first evidence-based public health model, has been disseminated to a number of countries across various cultures. However, the effectiveness with Chinese parents in Mainland China has never been tested, yet there's no evidence-based parenting program in Mainland China. Moreover, it is also unknown if Triple P can have any effects on children's academic lives. This research project aims to test the effectiveness of a Triple P variant - Group Triple P with Chinese parents and on children's academic outcomes in Shanghai, Mainland China. A randomized control research design will be employed. It is expected that in comparison to parents in a waitlist control group, parents who receive Group Triple P training (intervention group) will report a significant increase in parenting efficacy, parental teamwork and parent involvement, and a significant decrease in dysfunctional parenting practices, parental stress, and child emotional and behavioral problems. Also the children of these parents will report significant improvement of parenting of their parents, significant increase in academic self-regulation, and significant decrease in learning stress. These changes are predicted to be maintained at 6-month follow-up assessment.
Interventions
An intervention of Group Triple P will be delivered as group training and telephone consultations, which teaches parents parenting strategies to develop desirable relationship with child, to promote child positive behaviors and to manage child difficult behaviors. Participating parents will be assigned randomly to two groups, intervention group and waitlist control group. The intervention group will immediately receive the Group Triple P training, which will last for 8 weeks, while the waitlist
An intervention of Group Triple P will be delivered as group training and telephone consultations, which teaches parents parenting strategies to develop desirable relationship with child, to promote child positive behaviors and to manage child difficult behaviors. Participating parents will be assigned randomly to two groups, intervention group and waitlist control group. The intervention group will immediately receive the Group Triple P training, which will last for 8 weeks, while the waitlist group will receive the same training afterwards. The Group Triple P intervention includes 8 sessions, with 4 x 2 hours group training which will be provided in the first four weeks, and then 4 X 15-30 minutes telephone consultations for the later 4 weeks. Session attendance will be recorded to monitor parents' adherence. The program will be provided by a trained practitioner in Chinese.
Sponsors
Dr Alina Morawska (The primary supervisor of Mingchun Guo)
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
25 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
(1) Parents are currently living together with their children; (2) Parents need to report being worried about child's academic learning; (3) Child of parents is studying in grade 1 - 3 of primary schools; (4) Parents are literate in Chinese and can read and write Chinese.
Exclusion criteria
(1)Parents or carers having a child with health problems or disabilities (including intellectual and learning disabilities); (2)Parents or carers do not live currently with their child; (3)Parents or carers are currently receiving on-going support from other programs or professionals in regards to their child's learning.
Outcome results
None listed