A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Efficacy of the Lighthouse Parenting Programme in Addressing Parenting Difficulties in China

Zhujiang Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Parenting Intervention

Treatments: Other: psychological intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06858059

2024-KY-317-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 56 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

The test group (Group A)

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will be conducted in the form of assessments, group intervention and individual intervention . All participants will take part in full treatment over a period of five weeks. Each week, participants will engage in one group session lasting approximately 90 minutes and one individual session lasting approximately 60 minutes. A assessment will be conducted at the time of recruitment and following the final individual session.

Treatment:

Other: psychological intervention

The control group (Group B)

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group 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.