Parenting Intervention
Conditions
Keywords
Parenting Intervention
Brief summary
The study will be conducted in three phases: assessments, group intervention and individual intervention. All participants will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour. The test group (Group A) will be assessed once at recruitment and after the last individual session. The control group (Group B) will undergo the same intervention as the test group after the test group completes the intervention and posttest, and will be assessed one additional time for pre-intervention status.
Interventions
OTHERpsychological intervention
All participants of the lighthouse parenting programme will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour.
Sponsors
Zhujiang Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Parents with children aged 2-14 years who exhibited parenting that were identified as being problematic (Parenting Stress Indicator PSI ≥ 86 (critical high level)).
Exclusion criteria
* Parents in the family with either parent and child who have a serious medical condition (e.g., cancer, heart disease, etc.), an acute psychotic episode, or difficulty engaging in group interventions may be excluded from participation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parenting stress | From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks | The Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (PSI/SF; Abidin, 1986) is employed to assess parenting stress. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parental mentalising | From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks | The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten, Mayes, Nijssens, \& Fonagy, 2017) is employed to assess parental mentalizing. |
| Quality of the parent-child relationship | From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks | The quality of the parent-child relationship is evaluated using the Multiperspective Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire (M-PCR; Müller \& Achtergarde, 2018). |
| parenting efficacy | From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks | The Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (Woolgar et al., 2023) is employed to assess parenting efficacy. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed