Children with autism Family management Family Quality of Life Burden Children with autism Family management Family Quality of Life Burden
Conditions
Interventions
The family-
management education intervention will be adapted from the Building on Family Strengths program (Kieckhefer et al.,
2014)
guided by the FMSF and based on an intensive review of relevant literature about intervention studies for families with autistic or chronically ill children. In this study,
the intervention protocol will include four-
weekly face to face sessions and four-
weekly follow up by phone.
The program will include brief presentations by the researcher with common foundations of knowledge related to autism and family management,
structured parent discussions related to the topics,
discussion of parent development and individualized action plans. The program plan will include groups of 8 to 12 family members in four-
weekly sessions. Each session will last 60 minutes. Content for the brief presentations will be based on previously documented needs of parents of children with autism. This lecture will be offered us
additional references,
examples of successful strategies in managing children with autism,
action plan and evaluation form. Topics of each session are presented as bellow.
Session one: Introduction to the family management education program for families of children with autism. The objecti
management strategies.
Session two: The impact on family'
s emotional dimensions of parenting a child with autism and the impa
Experimental Behavioral
The Family Management Intervention
Sponsors
Graduate school, Burapha University
Nam Dinh University of Nursing
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) be the primary caregiver of three to eight years old children diagnosed as autism, (2) age 18 years or older, (3) a biological relationship with the child (can be mother, father or grandparent), (4) provding care to the children without receiving wage or any payment, (5) living at the same house with the child at least 6 months prior to the data collection, and (6) be able to read and write in the Vietnamese language. (7) have no serious health problems such as severe depression or serious health condition such as end stage renal disease.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Unable to complete all sessions of the intervention.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Family Quality of Life Before intervention, after intervention and 4 weeks after intervention the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Burden Before intervention, after intervention and 4 weeks after intervention the Caregiver Strain Questionnaire | — |
Countries
Thailand
Contacts
Public ContactAnh Mai
Nam Dinh University of Nursing
Outcome results
None listed