4Rs for a Better Family

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Family Relations
• Interventions: Behavioral: family conflict intervention group; Behavioral: handicraft-making group

• Registration Number: NCT05977114
• Lead Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a family conflict intervention in Chinese New Arrival families in Hong Kong.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve adaptive parent-child conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to reduce parent-child conflicts compared to the control group?

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve adaptive parental conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to enhance family harmony compared to the control group?

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to enhance family resilience compared to the control group?

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups: the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group. For each group, parents will participate in 3 sessions independently, children will participate in 2 sessions independently, and parents and children will jointly participate in 1 session. Each session takes around 2 hours, and it takes 4 weeks to complete the full intervention. The family conflict intervention sessions include an introduction to the occurrence of family conflicts, communication skills training to prevent and address conflicts, and role play to practice the skills, etc.

Researchers will compare the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group to see if the family conflict intervention group is effective in promoting conflict resolution skills, reducing family conflicts, and enhancing family resilience.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-07-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-07-28
• Study First Posted: 2023-08-04
• Study Start: 2023-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-04-30
• Study Completion: 2024-06-30
• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-01
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 456

Inclusion Criteria

1. Parents who have newly arrived in Hong Kong for less than seven years, and their children who are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3; or
2. New arrivals who have settled in Hong Kong for less than seven years and are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3, and their parents; and
3. Parents and children must live together; and
4. Parents and children must participate together

Exclusion Criteria

1. Self-reported serious emotional or mental illness by parent or child, or
2. Children with special learning needs

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
4Rs Group	family conflict intervention group	-
4As Group	handicraft-making group	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parent-child conflicts	Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks	Parent-child conflicts are measured by the frequency and intensity of parent-child conflicts (Yau \& Smetana, 1996). Possible scores for conflict frequency range from 0 (not at all) to 4 (4 times or above). A higher score indicates a higher level of parent-child conflict frequency. Possible scores for conflict intensity range from 1 (none) to 5 (severe). A higher score indicates more severe parent-child conflicts.
The Chinese version of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II	Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks	Couple conflict and problem-solving will be measured by the subscale of the Chinese version of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II (ROC-II; Rahim, 1983; Chang \& Lu, 2007). The subscale includes 7 items. Each item is rated on a five-point scale. A higher score indicates a higher level of adaptive couple conflict resolution.
Parent-child conflict resolution	Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks	Parent-child conflict adaptive resolution strategy is measured by the subscale of the Parent-Child Conflict Response Strategy Scale (Sun, 2019). The four items are each rated on a five-point scale, which is from 1 (never) to 5 (always). A higher score indicates a higher level of adaptive parent-child conflict resolution.
Family Harmony Scale	Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks	Family Harmony will be measured by the Family Harmony Scale (Fabrizio et al., 2015). The scale includes 8 items. Each item is rated on a five-point scale. A higher score indicates a higher level of family harmony.
Family Resilience Quetionnaire	Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks	Family Resilience will be measured by the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire (Walsh, 2015). We selected 9 representative questions from the original questionnaire for our study. Each item is rated on a five-point scale. A higher score indicates a higher level of family resilience.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

International Social Service Hong Kong Branch; 🇨🇳 Hong Kong, China