A Community-based Resilience Program of Only-child Loss Parents

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Bereavement; Resilience,Psychological; Happiness

• Registration Number: NCT03328598
• Lead Sponsor: Central South University

Brief Summary

This is a community-based participatory research aiming at helping the only-child loss parents to be happier and resilient from bereavement. It is a psycho-behavioral intervention research. There are two intervention programs in this study. One is derived from a foreign psychotherapy, developed by an American psychologist and has been testified the effectiveness in promoting happiness. Another one is developed by the researchers based on the previous cross-sectional survey and interviews with those bereaved parents. The researchers will apply randomized controlled trial to testify and compare those two intervention programs in a Chinese community.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-10-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-10-28
• Study First Posted: 2017-11-01
• Study Start: 2017-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-01-24
• Study Completion: 2019-01-31
• Status Verified: 2023-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-08-28
• Last Update Posted: 2023-08-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 144

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

1. with serious mental disorders or physical illnesses;
2. are not able to complete the intervention;
3. are not able to finish questionnaire;
4. with chewing functional disorder to collect saliva dehydroepiandrosterone.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of psychological resilience	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	Psychological resilience is a kind of ability to bounce back from adversity measured by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC).It is a self-reported scale by adding up 25 items and the total score ranges from 0-100, with higher score reflects higher resilience. The differences within two times frame are the changes of psychological resilience.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of subjective well-being	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	A feeling of happiness measured by Campbell Index of well-being (IWB).It is a self-reported scale by adding up 8 items and the total score ranges from 2.1-14.7, with higher score reflects higher subjective well-being. The differences within time frames are change of subjective well-being.
Change of depression	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	Depression may refer to depressive mood in recent two weeks at each assessment measured by Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS).It is a self-reported scale by adding up 20 items and the total score ranges from 20-80, with higher score reflects higher depression. The differences within time frames are changes of depression.
Change of social avoidance	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	The phenomenon that a person is absent from normal social interaction with others measured by Social Avoidance and Distress Scale(SAD). It is a self-reported scale by adding up 14 items and the total score ranges from 0-14, with higher score reflects social avoidance. The differences within two time frame are the changes of social avoidance.
Change of post-traumatic growth	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	The positive growth after an adversity measured by Post Traumatic Growth Inventory(PTGI). It is a self-reported scale by adding up 24 items and the total score ranges from 0-120, with higher score reflects more growth. The differences within time frames are changes of post-traumatic growth.
Change of sleeping quality	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	The sleeping quality is a response of one's mood in recent month measured by Pittsburgh sleep quality index(PSQI). It is a self-reported scale, with total score higher than 19 reflects sleeping disorder. The differences within each time frames are the changes of sleeping quality.
Change of health care behavior	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	A person's self-care behavior measured by Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile-Ⅱ( HPLP-Ⅱ).It is a self-reported scale by adding up 40 items in four dimensions. The total score ranges from 40-160, with higher score reflects better health care behavior. The differences within time frames are changes of health care behavior.
Change of concentration of dehydroepiandrosterone in saliva	Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention	A kind of hormone that reflects the person's psychological stress collected by Sarstedt(Brand name) saliva collection tube by chewing the sterile cotton strips for 60 seconds. It will be tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with Kit Number of HT81012 and Origin site in Canada PLlabs(Company name). The differences within time frames are changes of dehydroepiandrosterone concentration in saliva.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Central South University; 🇨🇳 Changsha, Hunan, China

Yangguang Tianshi Care Center; 🇨🇳 Changsha, Hunan, China