Child Socioemotional and Behavioral Outcomes, Parent Emotion Regulation, Parenting
Conditions
Keywords
Online Parenting Intervention, Parent Emotion Regulation, Emotion Socialization, Preschool Children, Socioemotional Development, Parenting Skills
Brief summary
This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an online emotion regulation and parenting program for parents of children aged 2-6 years. The program is designed to help parents better manage their emotions and respond more adaptively to their children's emotional and behavioral needs. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group. The study will examine whether the intervention reduces parents' emotion regulation difficulties, improves their acceptance of children's negative emotions and their perceived ability to respond adaptively, and improves children's socio-emotional and behavioral outcomes.
Detailed description
This study is a randomized controlled trial evaluating an online parent-focused intervention that integrates emotion regulation strategies with parenting skills for parents of children aged 2-6 years. Eligible parents will complete a baseline assessment before being randomly allocated to either the intervention group or the control group. Participants assigned to the intervention group will receive an online micro-learning program consisting of brief sessions focused on parent emotion regulation, understanding and responding to children's negative emotions, and adaptive parenting strategies. Participants in the control group will not receive the intervention during the initial study period. Outcome assessments will examine changes in parents' emotion regulation difficulties, their acceptance of children's negative emotions, their perceived ability to respond adaptively to children's negative emotions, and children's socio-emotional and behavioral outcomes. Outcomes will be compared between the intervention and control groups over the study period.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALOnline Parent Emotion Regulation and Parenting Program
An online parent-focused program consisting of eight brief micro-learning sessions. The program provides strategies to help parents manage their emotional responses, understand and accept their negative emotions, and respond more adaptively to children's emotional and behavioral needs. Each session lasts approximately 5-8 minutes and is delivered online.
Sponsors
The University of Hong Kong
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Participants will be randomly assigned to either the online parent emotion regulation and parenting program or a wait-list control group and will be followed over the same study period.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Parent aged 18 years or older * A parent or primary caregiver of children aged 2-6 years * Able to read and understand Chinese * Willing to provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria
* Unable to provide informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change From Baseline in Parent Emotion Regulation Difficulties Assessed by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-16 (DERS-16) | Baseline and 2 months after randomization | Parent emotion regulation difficulties will be assessed using the 16-item Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16). Items are rated on a 5-point scale, with total scores ranging from 16 to 80. Higher scores indicate greater difficulties in emotion regulation. Change from baseline will be compared between the intervention and control groups. |
Countries
Hong Kong
Contacts
CONTACTLiuzhi Hong
CONTACTPatrick Ip
Outcome results
None listed