A Strength-based Parenting Program for Parents With Young Children From 3 to 6 Years Old

City University of Hong Kong

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Parenting Intervention

Treatments: Behavioral: The Strength-based parenting program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07397637

KeySteps@JCStrength-BasedStudy

2022-0114-007 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The parent education and family support component in phase 2 aims to strengthen protective factors of healthy child development and reduce risk factors of child abuse and neglect among disadvantaged families by providing community-based preventive interventions for children and their significant adults.

Participants include about 600 parents from randomly assigned 100 preschools to the four groups (group 1: hub + school support; group 2: school support; group 3: hub support; group 4: delay group).

The primary hypothesis is to examine the efficacy of the parenting programs for young children and their parents from K1 to K3. The programs are delivered by social workers at kindergartens or community hubs. The second aim/hypothesis of this project is to investigate the overall synergy impact of the community hub.

The success of the parent-child interactive program offers a foundation for the hub to further develop community-based parent education and family support programs that aim at building parents/caregivers' competence in optimizing child development and competence in caregivers and professionals through networking multiple ecological systems, i.e., family, school, and hub or other organizations in the community.

Full description

Community hubs could be scaled up as a key setting where majority of intervention shall take place in to build capacity of significant others. For instance, there it will be an arena for the community-based parent education and family support programs. Community hubs act as a connector to bridge services. Due to disparity in resources and knowledge, parents in poverty may need extra rapport to bridge them to various supportive services available in the hub/community for the children's optimum development. This child and family centered approach can help foster community cohesion and raise family and children well-being.

The parenting program is designed with an emphasis on strength-based parenting practice and both children and parents have parallel sessions on the same character strength and also joint sessions to optimize the impact. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parents whose children study in the 100 preschools taking part in the project

Exclusion criteria

• parents who do not give consent to take part

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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600 participants in 4 patient groups

Parent-Child Parallel Program in school and hub

Experimental group

Description:

It is an intervention for Parent-Child Parallel Program in both school and hub.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Strength-based parenting program

Parent-Child Parallel Program in school

Active Comparator group

Description:

The program is delivered in school.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Strength-based parenting program

Parent-Child Parallel Program in hub

Active Comparator group

Description:

The parenting program is delivered in hub.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Strength-based parenting program

Parent-Child Parallel Program with a delayed format

Active Comparator group

Description:

The parenting program will be delivered in a delayed format

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Strength-based parenting program