Healthy Parent Carers: a research study to test ways to improve the health and wellbeing of parent carers of disabled children and whether the trial design is acceptable to participants

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Public health; parent carers of children with special educational needs or disability; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN15144652
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Exeter

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788323 protocol (added 05/12/2019) 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34301334/ results (added 26/07/2021) 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34316380/ (added 29/07/2021) 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34433591/ process evaluation (added 27/08/2021)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-10-25
• Study Completion: 2020-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 7 September 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 93

Inclusion Criteria

1. Parent carers of children with special educational needs and disabilities aged up to 25 years consistent with the current UK Department of Health and Department of Education Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) legislation and The Children’s Act 2014
2. Willing and able to attend the programme group meeting sessions on arranged dates/times subject to allocation

Exclusion Criteria

Not able to communicate in English. This is necessary in the feasibility study because the programme has not yet been translated into other languages and SW England is not ethnically diverse. This criterion will not be used for the national definitive trial as the trialists can translate the programme and purposively recruit in black and minority ethnic communities, for instance in collaboration with Include Me TOO (www.includemetoo.org.uk).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> Current primary outcome measures as of 22/05/2019:<br> Mental wellbeing is measured using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) at baseline, post-intervention and 6 months post-intervention.<br><br> Previous primary outcome measures:<br> Mental wellbeing is measured using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) at baseline, 15 weeks post-randomisation and 40 weeks post-randomisation<br>