The Effects of Dyadic Parent-child Self-compassion Program on Children' Psychological Well-being: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Psychological Well-Being

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-compassion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06255405

HE-SF2022/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Suboptimal psychological well-being in children can have substantial negative effects on their physical health, academic performance, and lifelong health. Preliminary evidence supports that self-compassion have positive impacts on psychological well-being in elderly, adults, and adolescents, but there is apparently lack of this kind of evidence in children. Involvement of parents in the program potentially optimize the effects, this study thus designs a dyadic parent-child self-compassion program (DPC-SC) and aim to examine its effects on children's psychological well-being.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 9 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: (Child)

• Study in Primary three or four.
• Can communicate in Cantonese.

Exclusion Criteria: (Child)

• Have emotional dysregulation
• Have past history of mental illness
• Recently experience trauma
• Are in an acute health crisis

Inclusion Criteria: (Parents)

• Is the primary caretaker of the children
• Is willing to interact and do the practices with their children
• Can communicate in Cantonese
• Commit to attend all sessions

Exclusion Criteria: (Parents)

• Have emotional dysregulation
• Have past history of mental illness
• Recently experience trauma
• Are in an acute health crisis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Dyadic parent-child self-compassion program will be provided.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-compassion

Waitlist control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group will be instructed to live their lives as usual, no intervention will be imposed during study period. They will be provided with the program after the study.