Jockey Club Support Project to Enhance Emotion Regulation Skills and Resilience of Cross-Boundary Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 450
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Resilience
研究概览
简要总结
Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.
详细描述
Researchers will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) intervention study targeting cross-boundary families' affect/emotion regulation skills as well as personal and family resilience. Researchers will implement two arms with the allocation ratio of 2:1. As most cross-boundary children are preoccupied with after-school academies and extracurricular activities, participating parents will receive four group activity sessions, while children will receive two sessions. The intervention themes and skills are the same for parents and children but condensed for children.
Researchers will collaborate with the International Social Services Hong Kong Branch (Shenzhen) (hereinafter referred to as "ISS"), an NGO that has served cross-boundary families in Shenzhen for over 30 years.
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
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •for Parents:
- •have at least one child between the fifth and twelfth grade;
- •can participate in the intervention with their child;
- •are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
- •live in Shenzhen.
- •Inclusion Criteria for Children:
- •are between the fifth and twelfth grade;
- •are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
- •live in Shenzhen.
排除标准
- •(a) those who have current diagnoses of severe physical or mental illnesses;
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention Arm
This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.
干预措施: Emotion Regulation Skills Training (Behavioral)
Control
This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.
干预措施: Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Resilience
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants' psychological resilience will be measured by the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Participants will report their perceived psychological resilience of self on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = strongly disagree; 4 = strongly agree). Higher total scores indicate higher levels of psychological resilience.
Cognitive Emotion Regulation
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants' use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies will be measured by corresponding subscales of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The study will employ five subscales, including acceptance, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, and putting into perspective, as these strategies are the targets of the intervention. Each subscale includes four items. Participants will report their use of each strategy on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = almost never; 5 = almost always). Higher scores for each subscale indicate more use of the corresponding cognitive emotion regulation strategy.
Behavioral Emotion Regulation
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants' use of adaptive behavioral emotion regulation strategies will be measured by corresponding subscales of the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ). The study will employ two subscales (seeking distraction and putting into perspective) as these strategies are the targets of the intervention. Each subscale includes four items. Participants will report their use of each strategy on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = almost never; 5 = almost always). Higher scores for each subscale indicate more use of the corresponding behavioral emotion regulation strategy.
Affective Experiences
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants' affective experiences will be measured by the International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Short Form (I-PANAS-SF). Participants will report their experienced positive and negative affect on a 10-item, 5-point Likert scale (1 = never; 5 = always). Higher scores indicate higher levels of positive or negative affect.
Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants' depression and anxiety symptoms will be measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4). On this 4-point Likert scale from 0 to 3, participants will report their frequency of depression and anxiety symptoms. Higher scores indicate more severe symptoms.
Well-being
时间窗: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Participants will also complete the 5-item WHO Well-Being Index (WHO-5). They will report their well-being with a 6-point Likert scale (0 = at no time; 5 = all of the time). Higher scores indicate higher levels of well-being.
次要结局
- Family Resilience(Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
- Family harmony(Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
- Parent-Child Conflicts(Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
- Parenting Self-Efficacy(Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
- Parental Stress(Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
研究者
Dr. Nancy Xiaonan Yu
Professor
City University of Hong Kong