Adult-caregiver Supported Positive Psychology Intervention to Increase Resilience: Work Package 2
- Conditions
- Mental Health
- Registration Number
- NCT06691711
- Lead Sponsor
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
The goal of this feasibility study was to investigate a new intervention designed to help parents/carers of children aged 8-12 who have experienced adversities to build their child's resilience to mental health difficulties using a 'positive psychology' approach. The research questions concerned the acceptability, feasibility and safety of the intervention.
- Detailed Description
Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic or stressful events before age 18 that have been linked to poor mental health across the life course. Resilience is the ability of an individual to maintain or return to a thriving state following adversity. As resilience is not a static trait, intervening to increase the resilience of children exposed to ACEs has the potential to decrease the risk of later mental health difficulties. Positive psychology interventions (i.e. interventions that aim to increase factors that have been identified as important to individual and community flourishing) have been shown to be effective in increasing resilience. However, there was not yet a positive psychology intervention designed to meet the needs of young people exposed to ACEs and their caregivers (parents/carers).
Objectives: To investigate the acceptability, feasibility and safety of a co-produced caregiver-delivered positive psychology intervention to enhance the resilience to mental health difficulties of children who have experienced ACEs.
Methods: The project was guided by a Stakeholder Research Team (SRT) comprising both adults and young people with relevant expertise-by-experience. The study was divided into two work packages. In work package 1, the researchers completed a component analysis of existing positive psychology interventions, and a qualitative study to understand the needs and preferences of young people, parents/carers and professionals. They then conducted a series of intervention development workshops to co-produce the intervention with the SRT, informed by the findings of the component analysis and qualitative study. In work package 2, the researchers carried out a waitlist-controlled feasibility study involving 12 families with a child aged 8-12 years who had experienced ACEs. Families were randomised to receive the intervention either immediately or after a 10-week waiting period and mixed methods data collected to enable us to assess the acceptability, feasibility and safety of the intervention.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- CROSSOVER
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Intervention feasibility / fidelity of delivery 20 weeks ASPIRE intervention adherence checklist
Potential risks of the intervention 20 weeks Modified Edinburgh Adverse Effects of Psychological Therapy Scale
Intervention acceptability 20 weeks Qualitative acceptability of the intervention from the perspective of children, caregivers and professionals, assessed via interviews and focus groups
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Me and My Feeling Questionnaire Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 16-item measure of mental health difficulties with emotional and behavioural difficulties subscale (child completed)
The Student Resilience Survey Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 47-item measure measuring children's perceptions of their internal and external resilience (child completed)
Students' Life Satisfaction Scale Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 7-item measure of global life satisfaction (child completed)
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (parent-report version) Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 25-item measure of caregiver perception of their child's emotional and behavioural difficulties (parent/carer completed)
Me as a Parent Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 16-item measure of parental self-regulation, including their self-efficacy, personal agency, self-management and self-sufficiency as a parent (parent/carer completed)
Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale Post intervention (10 weeks) & 20 week follow-up for immediate arm only 7-item measure of the parent or carer's mental wellbeing (parent/carer completed)
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom