A Community-based Resilience Program of Only-child Loss Parents

Central South University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Happiness; Resilience,Psychological; Bereavement

Treatments: Other: Controlled routine activity; Behavioral: Positive psychology therapy group; Behavioral: Resilience promotion therapy group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03328598

Central South University

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a community-based participatory research aiming at helping the only-child loss parents to be happier and resilient from bereavement. It is a psycho-behavioral intervention research. There are two intervention programs in this study. One is derived from a foreign psychotherapy, developed by an American psychologist and has been testified the effectiveness in promoting happiness. Another one is developed by the researchers based on the previous cross-sectional survey and interviews with those bereaved parents. The researchers will apply randomized controlled trial to testify and compare those two intervention programs in a Chinese community.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 49+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria(made according to the official documents):

1. has given birth to only one child;
2. now has no living birth or adopted child;
3. the bereaved mother is older than 49 years in this family(medically maximum age for fertility in China).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. with serious mental disorders or physical illnesses;
2. are not able to complete the intervention;
3. are not able to finish questionnaire;
4. with chewing functional disorder to collect saliva dehydroepiandrosterone.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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144 participants in 3 patient groups

Positive psychology therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will be given a positive psychological group intervention developed from an foreign psychotherapy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive psychology therapy group

Resilience promotion therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will be given a resilience group intervention developed from our pervious research results.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resilience promotion therapy group

Controlled routine activity group

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm will continue to participate in conventional community activities.

Treatment:

Other: Controlled routine activity