Primary and secondary prevention for children of mentally ill parents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Parents (up to 65 years) with minor children (3-18 years), who are in the hospital as in-patients. Adolescents (aged 12-18) of these parents who have at least one parent are mentally ill can participate in a coaching session.Diagnosis-spanning except gerontopsychiatry

• Registration Number: DRKS00011533
• Lead Sponsor: Vitos Gießen Marburg, Klinik Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-04-28
• Study Completion: 2018-08-31
• Results First Posted: 2023-07-12
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 104

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria parents:
- Patients as inpatients at the clinic of Vitos
Kurhessen
- (step) parents (up to 65 years) with minor
children (3 to 18 years) without any diagnostic
restriction
- ability to consent

Inclusion criteria for participation in the prevention program (evaluation)

children / teenagers
- lives with at least one parent
- 10 to 18 years
- at least one parent is mentally ill
- sufficient knowledge of German

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria

Parents:
- can not be consented
- lack of language skills
- intelligence reduction
- acute / emergency treatment, self- and / or
hazardous to the environment

Exclusion criteria
Children / Youth:
- no consent or withdrawal of the
approval
- intelligence reduction
- psychiatric history of the
child / youth,
- suicidality (in this
case direct transition to children's and
children's youth psychiatry part of the
continuous providing consulting services).

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary endpoint: Internalizing abnormalities of the youth self report (YSR) questionnaire should be reduced in the intervention group versus control group. The size of the effect should be a group difference with the effect intensity 0.5 (this is to be seen as a clinically relevant effect strength (Norman et al., 2003).<br><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary endpoints: Significant group differences are expected in favor of the intervention group with regard to perceived parent relationships, information on the disease and specific stresses and coherence.<br>As a tertiary endpoint, an improved self-awareness is expected (the construct has strong trait aspects). Trauma experience is used for subgroup analyses.