Mindfulness-based Intervention and Young Children's Screen Time
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE).
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Screen Time Exposure. Basic parameters: from 2 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Hong Kong
- Next step
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Official title
Mindfulness-based Intervention on Parent Empowerment in Reducing Young Children's Screen Time (MORE): a Mixed Method Study
Overview
This research proposal aims to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on reducing young children's screen time (ST) and caring parents' psychological and social issues in Hong Kong.
Detailed description
The research design was a two-arm waitlist, randomised controlled study with a focus group interview with 60 participants. The intervention integrates the mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme, and is named as MORE (i.e. Mindfulness-based intervention On parent empowerment in REducing children's screen time). The intervention consists of 6 weeks of MBI training, each lasting for 2 hours, led by an experienced certified mindfulness teacher. The intervention programme consists of three components: (1) skill part - 4 lessons talk about parenting skills (Praising, token system, response cost, planned ignorance, quiet zone); (2) skill part - 2 lessons talk about child-parent communication (building relationship, communication strategies); and (3) mindfulness part - mindfulness-based training. The primary outcomes are young children's ST and children's disruptive behaviour. Feasibility outcomes include recruitment rate, retention rate, and acceptability of the interventions. Secondary outcomes include parent-child relationships, parents' perceptions of their abilities to manage the demands of parenting, parental stress level, and social support adequacy. The proposal also includes plans for focus group interviews with participants to gather qualitative data. Analyses will include descriptive statistics, Pearson's chi-square test, Pearson's product-moment correlations, One-way ANOVA. A p-value \< 0.05 will be taken as the level of statistical significant. The 95% Confidence interval (CI) around the differences will be calculated. For qualitative data, the results will be analyzed descriptively and narratively. The proposal highlights the potential of MBI for reducing young children's ST, as well as improving children-parent relationships, enhancing the efficacy and satisfaction level of the parents, and reducing the stress level of the parents.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mindfulness-based intervention on parent empowerment in reducing children's screen time (MORE)
Participants will receive a 6-week MORE group training by integration of mindfulness-based component into a modified Hands-on Parent Empowerment-20 (HOPE-20) programme.
Primary outcome measures
- Screen time exposure - frequency [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Screen time exposure - duration [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Screen time exposure - nature and content [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Screen time exposure - viewing behavior [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Change in parental stress level [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Change in social support adquency level [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Change in children disruptive behavior [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
- Change in parent-child relationships [Time frame: Baseline, week 6, week 18]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- parent-child dyads resident in Hong Kong;
- child being between 2 and 6- year; and
- child with normal intellectual ability.
Exclusion criteria
- children with major developmental problems, history of domestic violence, drug abuse, or mental illness in the family;
- being unable to communicate and understand Cantonese as the intervention will be conducted in Cantonese; and
- parent-child dyads previous participation in mindfulness-based training for less than 6 months.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Hong Kong · 1 center
- Hong Kong Metropolitan University — Hong Kong
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07083661 · RD/2025/1.7