Jockey Club Support Project
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Emotion Regulation Skills Training, Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Family Relations, Resilience, Emotion Regulation. Basic parameters: from 10 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
- China
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Jockey Club Support Project to Enhance Emotion Regulation Skills and Resilience of Cross-Boundary Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Overview
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
- Behavioral Emotion Regulation Skills Training
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. - Behavioral Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training
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.
Primary outcome measures
- Resilience [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Cognitive Emotion Regulation [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Behavioral Emotion Regulation [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Affective Experiences [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Depression and Anxiety Symptoms [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Well-being [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Family Resilience [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Family harmony [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Parent-Child Conflicts [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Parenting Self-Efficacy [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
- Parental Stress [Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria 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.
Exclusion criteria
(a) those who have current diagnoses of severe physical or mental illnesses;
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
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
China · 1 center
- International Social Service Hong Kong Branch — Shenzhen
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07136064 · Jockey Club Support Project