The Parental Journey. Digital Tool for Security in Parenthood, a Way to Promote Public Health. A Pilot Study.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 主要终点
- The Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionnaire - SPSQ
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this randomized clinical pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility and experience of the internet-based parental support program "Parenting - a journey together". This program is intended to be delivered via the national Support and Treatment Platform and used within primary care to enhance traditional parental support within child health care when needed. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Is the digital parental support intervention feasible and helpful within primary care?
- How do parents perceive the program "Parenting - a journey together"?
- Does the program increase the sense of parental ability and security in parenting by reflecting on attitudes and approaches in interaction with the child?
Participants in this study will be parents of children aged 2-5 years who have expressed interest in participating in the study and in the parental support program. Participants will be randomized into either the intervention group or the control group. Participants will be asked to complete validated questionnaires measuring the parent-child relationship, perceived parental ability, stress, and well-being before and after the parental support program, and again after 3 months. These results will then be compared with those of the control group.The knowledge gained from the pilot study can contribute to the development of digital parental support interventions within primary care. If the pilot study proves that the interactive digital parenting program is feasible for use in child health centers and is perceived as helpful by parents, a larger randomized controlled (RCT) study, (not included in this application) will be conducted to evaluate its effectiveness.
详细描述
Research question / Hypothesis / Theoretical framework:
Can a digital interactive parental support program be a tool to use within child health care to increase the feeling of security and competence in parenthood?
Additional research questions for the pilot study:
- What is the percentage of those asked who agree to participate?
- Can the execution of planned outcome measures be measured practically?
- Is the intervention practically feasible with the resources that can be expected in a larger study?
- How many parents terminate their participation in the study after they have been included?
- How common is the occurrence of unexpected problems?
- What change is observed between baseline and follow-up measurement of outcome measures in the two different groups?
Study Design:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Adult parents (or another adult who is a primary caregiver) to children within pediatric healthcare services with children aged 2-5 years old.
- •The parents are not participating in other parental support programs or interventions from Child Health Care psychologists, as this would complicate the evaluation of the effects of each intervention.
- •Parents who speak Swedish, due to the fact that "Parenting - a journey together" has not yet been translated into other languages.
- •Parents who respond affirmatively to the inclusion questions, indicating that they perceive a need for additional parental support and are motivated to participate in the program.
- •Inclusion questions for assessing a parent's needs and motivation to participate in the digital parenting support program:
- •How important do you consider your ability/confidence as a parent to be for you right now?
- •What has motivated you to consider participating in this program?
- •How motivated are you to make changes in your behavior to improve your parenting ability?
- •Do you have previous experiences with similar digital programs or parental support interventions? If yes, what was your experience?
- •What type of support do you think you need to successfully complete this program?
排除标准
- •Parents of children outside the 2-5 years age range. The program is specifically designed for parents within child health care with children in this age group. Once children reach the age of 6, they transition to school health care.
- •The parents who are already participating in other parental support programs or receiving interventions from Child Health Care psychologists are not eligible, as this would complicate the evaluation of the effects of each intervention.
- •Parents who do not speak Swedish, as the program 'Parenting - a Journey Together' has not yet been translated into other languages.
- •Parents who have indicated no perceived need for additional parental support.
结局指标
主要结局
The Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionnaire - SPSQ
时间窗: Measurement data is collected at baseline, pre intervention, immediately after the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.
The Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionnaire (SPSQ) is designed to measure the perceived stress/strain that parents can directly relate to their parenthood. The questionnaire is influenced by, and primarily originates from parts of R. Abidin's Parenting Stress Index (PSI; Abidin, 1990). In early publications (Östberg, Hagekull, \& Wettergren, 1997), SPSQ was referred to as a Swedish PSI (S-PSI) to facilitate comparisons with the American scale. In accordance with an agreement with the American publisher that holds the copyright to the PSI scale, the name has been changed to The Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionnaire (SPSQ). SPSQ is based on 35 selected questions from PSI, with clear and high/acceptable factor loadings (Abidin, 1990). The questions have been selected from the subscales Depression, Restrictions of Role, Sense of Competence, Social Isolation, Relationship with Spouse and Parent Health.
The parental reflective functioning questionnaire- PRFQ
时间窗: Measurement data is collected at baseline, pre intervention, immediately after the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.
The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) has been developed to provide a brief, multidimensional assessment of parental reflective functioning that is easy to administer to parents with a wide range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Because of the current interest in the role of PRF in the intergenerational transmission of attachment in early childhood, the PRFQ was primarily designed for parents of children 0-5 years of age. The questionnaire consists of 18 items.
The Parenting Sense of Competence scale -PSOC
时间窗: Measurement data is collected at baseline, pre intervention, immediately after the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.
The Parenting Sense of Competence scale (PSOC) is a self-report measure that aims to assesses one's perceived efficacy and satisfaction with parenting. One of the most used scales to measure this construct is Johnston and Mash's version of the Parenting Sense of Competence (PSOC) questionnaire. This scale consists of 16 items and evaluates the caregiver's perceived parenting competence through its two dimensions: efficacy, i.e., the degree to which the parent feels competent in their parenting role and satisfaction, i.e., the extent to which the caregiver feels satisfied with their role as a parent.
Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale -SWEMWBS
时间窗: Measurement data is collected at baseline, pre intervention, immediately after the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.
The Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing scale (SWEMWBS) is a short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS). The WEMWBS was developed to enable the monitoring of mental wellbeing in the general population and the evaluation of projects, programmes and policies which aim to improve mental wellbeing. The SWEMWBS uses seven of the WEMWBS's 14 statements about thoughts and feelings, which relate more to functioning than feelings and so offer a slightly different perspective on mental wellbeing.
次要结局
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