Effectiveness of a Web-based Intervention on Parental Psychological Flexibility and Emotion Regulation

Universidad de Almeria

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Parents

Treatments: Behavioral: Group parenting intervention; Behavioral: Web parenting intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04267523

Psy001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to validate a web-based clinical intervention for families with children suffering neurodevelopmental or behavioral disorders to promote psychological flexibility and emotion regulation strategies in parents.

Full description

Family context, and specifically parents' educational styles (PE) can act as a protective or risk factor for the maintenance and development of various disorders in childhood. When the child is diagnosed of a disease, disorder or difficulty, parents can develop a series of beliefs that will mediate their PEs, their barriers and their emotional repertoire. It can worsen the family climate, lead to maladaptive behaviors, and finally, lead to difficulties in adherence to treatment due to possible avoidance patterns. Several studies indicate that these patterns are mediated by a regulation of dysfunctional emotions in parents by not tolerating the discomfort caused by the suffering of their children.

This project aims to validate a web-based clinical intervention for families with children suffering neurodevelopmental or behavioral disorders to promote psychological flexibility and emotion regulation strategies in parents. Clinical intervention is focused in improving emotion regulation and positive parenting strategies using third-wave/contextual therapies. The intervention consist in 6 sessions with a duration of 1.5 hours. This study compare a a face-to-face parenting intervention group with a web-based parenting intervention. The first hypothesis is that both parental interventions will improve the educational styles, emotional competencies and well-being of parents in pos-test and 3-month follow up assessment. Second, web-based intervention will be more efficient in comparison with face-to-face intervention.

Enrollment: 110 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

A. Be a parent/guardian of a child between 0 and 12 years old. B. Be a parent/guardian of a child who obtains a limit score on any of the scales of the Difficulties and Capabilities Questionnaire (SDQ).

C. Obtain a high score in parental inflexibility / emotional distress through the Parental Acceptance Questionnaire in any of its subscales.

D. Parents/guardians have a device that provides access to the web-based intervention.

E. They agree to participate in the study by signing the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

A. The parent/guardian is in a process of separation or negligent parenting, this aspect will be assessed from a clinical trial in the initial interview.

B. The parent/guardian has serious psychological or substance use problems or disorders that may hinder their participation in the study.

C. The parent/guardian presents Spanish comprehension barriers.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Web-based parenting intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Families randomized to this intervention group will receive a self-administered web-based parenting intervention. Parents have access to a weekly 6-modules parenting intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Web parenting intervention

Face-to-face parenting intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Families randomized to this intervention group will receive a face-to-face group parenting intervention. Groups will meet weekly for 120 minutes for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group parenting intervention