PPI to Promote the Psychological Well-being of Children Living in Poverty

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Adolescent Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Positive Psychology

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04875507

PPI_poverty

Details and patient eligibility

About

Positive psychology interventions use positive psychology techniques to identify meaning and value in life events to raise positive feelings and emotions. Application of PPIs has steadily increased in clinical and non-clinical samples. However, that meta-analysis did not include any study in a Chinese population, and it remains unclear whether PPIs are applicable in the Hong Kong Chinese context.

Full description

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted. A convenience sample of 120 patients age 13 to 17 years with no cognitive and/or behavioral problem(s) will be recruited in secondary school around Kwai Chung Estate Participants will be randomized into experimental and control group. The experimental group, who will receive a 1.5-hour workshop covering positive psychology techniques delivered by a qualified research assistant, in groups of less than 5 people, and a booster intervention at 1 week. The control group will received no intervention. Data collection will be conducted at baseline, 1 week, 1month, 3months and 6 months for both groups.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age from 13-17
• Can read Chinese and speak Cantonese

Exclusion criteria

• with identified cognitive and/or behavioral problem(s)
• with identified mental problem(s)
• participating in any mental health service/programme and/or receiving any psychiatric medication.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Positive psychology

Active Comparator group

Description:

The experimental group(n=60), who will receive a 1.5-hour workshop covering positive psychology techniques delivered by a qualified research assistant, in groups of less than 5 people.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive Psychology

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive no intervention.