A Strength-based Parenting Program for Parents With Young Children From 3 to 6 Years Old
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: The Strength-based parenting program.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Parenting Intervention. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- 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
KeySteps@JC Phase Two Parenting Program
Overview
The parent education and family support component in phase 2 aims to strengthen protective factors of healthy child development and reduce risk factors of child abuse and neglect among disadvantaged families by providing community-based preventive interventions for children and their significant adults. Participants include about 600 parents from randomly assigned 100 preschools to the four groups (group 1: hub + school support; group 2: school support; group 3: hub support; group 4: delay group). The primary hypothesis is to examine the efficacy of the parenting programs for young children and their parents from K1 to K3. The programs are delivered by social workers at kindergartens or community hubs. The second aim/hypothesis of this project is to investigate the overall synergy impact of the community hub. The success of the parent-child interactive program offers a foundation for the hub to further develop community-based parent education and family support programs that aim at building parents/caregivers' competence in optimizing child development and competence in caregivers and professionals through networking multiple ecological systems, i.e., family, school, and hub or other organizations in the community.
Detailed description
Community hubs could be scaled up as a key setting where majority of intervention shall take place in to build capacity of significant others. For instance, there it will be an arena for the community-based parent education and family support programs. Community hubs act as a connector to bridge services. Due to disparity in resources and knowledge, parents in poverty may need extra rapport to bridge them to various supportive services available in the hub/community for the children's optimum development. This child and family centered approach can help foster community cohesion and raise family and children well-being.
The parenting program is designed with an emphasis on strength-based parenting practice and both children and parents have parallel sessions on the same character strength and also joint sessions to optimize the impact. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected.
Interventions
- Behavioral The Strength-based parenting program
A parenting program is designed with strength-based parenting theory and practice. It has 6 sessions for parents and young children when the children are at 3 years old, 4 sessions for them at 4 years old and another 4 sessions for them at 5 years old.
Primary outcome measures
- Change in early parenting attitude [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 4-6 months]
- Change in strength-based parenting practice [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 months]
- Change in child and parent relationship [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 4-6 months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Change in synergy impact of inter-sectors [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 4-6 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- parents whose children study in the 100 preschools taking part in the project
Exclusion criteria
- parents who do not give consent to take part
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
Hong Kong · 1 center
- City University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
Publications
- Leung C, Hui ANN, Wong RS, Rao N, Karnilowicz W, Chung K, Chan J, Ip P. Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Parenting Intervention for Promoting Social-Emotional School Readiness Among Children From Low-Income Families in Hong Kong: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Apr 1;176(4):357-364. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.6308. PMID 35129606
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07397637 · KeySteps@JCStrength-BasedStudy · 2022-0114-007