Effectiveness of Symptom Management Application on Parental Care Ability of Children With Tourette Syndrome

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Tourette Syndrome; Tic Disorder; Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Treatments: Other: health education instructions group; Behavioral: Symptom Management APP group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06613126

202102263B0C601

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study developed a Tourette Syndrome (TS) symptom management application (APP) to improve the care needs, sleep quality, anxiety, quality of life, and parenting relationship of parents of children with Tourette Syndrome.

Full description

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a common chronic neurodevelopmental disorder in children. Parents play critical roles in helping to manage their child's symptoms, leading to several issues associated with care needs and the parent-child interaction. This study adopted a randomized control study design. The investigators developed a TS symptom management APP based on symptom management theory and the relevant literature. The research subjects were parents of children with TS between 6 and 12 years old. The experimental group received TS symptom management APP intervention for four weeks. The experimental group recorded the patterns and treatments of tics at least twice a week and completed relevant readings on TS care information during these four weeks. The control group continued to receive outpatient verbal and paper health education guidance from healthcare providers. The participants in both groups were requested to complete the following questionnaires, including the care needs scale, WHOQOL-BREF, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Chinese version), Beck Anxiety Inventory (Chinese version), Parent-Child Relationship Quality Inventory, and the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale. These questionnaires were completed before the intervention and directly after the four-week intervention. The participants were completed again one month and three months after the intervention. To understand the users' satisfaction with this APP, only the participants in the experimental group were requested to complete the Inventory of Technology Acceptance Model when completing the questionnaires during the third posttest. The goal was to strengthen parents' symptom management ability and improve their psychosocial functions and children's disease severity.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Parents of children between 6-12 years old who are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome by pediatricians.
2. Parents who are the primary caregivers
3. Parents with normal cognitive functioning who can communicate in Mandarin.

Exclusion criteria

1. Children with Tourette Syndrome who are suffering from intellectual disability or critical diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

symptom management APP group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group(parents of children with TS between 6 and 12 years old) received TS symptom management APP intervention for four weeks. The experimental group recorded the patterns and treatments of tics at least twice a week and completed relevant readings on TS care information during these four weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Symptom Management APP group

Health education instructions group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group(parents of children with TS between 6 and 12 years old) continued to receive outpatient verbal and paper health education guidance from healthcare providers.

Treatment:

Other: health education instructions group