Parents in Action: An Online Intervention Aimed at Parents' Well-being

Официальное название

Evaluation of an Online Intervention to Promote Parental Well-being and Child Development

Обзор

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an online intervention improves well-being in low-income parents with children aged between 3 and 6 years. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer \[is/are\]: * Does life satisfaction improves after the online intervention? * Do stress, anxiety and depression symptoms diminish after the online intervention? Researchers will compare parents who took the online intervention with parents who did not to see if the intervention makes parents feel more satisfied with life and less stressed, anxious and depressed. Participants will be interviewed about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention. During the intervention, parents will watch videos, answer quizzes and do simple activities at home. After the online intervention, parents will be interviewed again about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention.

Подробное описание

Researchers will compare parents who took the online intervention with parents who did not to see if the intervention makes parents feel more satisfied with life and less stressed, anxious and depressed. The comparison will be based on tests that measure the life satisfaction, positive and negative emotions, stress, anxiety and depression according to parents report. Parents will respond to these tests during an online interview before starting the online intervention. During the interview they will also report on their parenting practices and their children's development and screen use. The interview lasts between 45 and 60 minutes.

During the 10 weeks of intervention, parents will watch videos, answer quizzes and do simple activities at home. They will spend between 30 and 45 minutes doing the online and home activities each week. Fifty percent of the parents who will undergo the intervention will also have a weekly video call with a psychologist to clarify doubts and solve difficulties found in the online activities.

After the online intervention, parents will be interviewed again about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use. The same interview procedures held before the intervention will be repeated after the intervention, when parents who underwent the online program will also respond a questionnaire about their satisfaction with the intervention. For parents who did not undergo the intervention, the last interview will happen eleven weeks after the first interview. After the last interview, parents who did not undergo the intervention before, will be able to take the intervention if they want to do so.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Parapais em Ação
  Parapais em Ação is a 10-week online program aimed at enhancing parents' well-being and mental health through psycho-educational videos, quizzes, practices of new skills. It was especially developed for Brazilian parents with children between 3 and 6 years of age.

Первичные конечные точки

• PANAS - Positive and Negative Affects Scale [Срок оценки: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.]
• LSS - Life Satisfaction Scale [Срок оценки: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.]

Вторичные конечные точки (1)

• DASS-21 - Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale [Срок оценки: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• parents of children between 3 and 6 years of age
• parents must live with the child
• child must attend public school

Критерии исключения

• parents under 19 years of age
• child with chronic disease or genetic syndromes
• lack of access to the internet or a digital device

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Нет

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Поддерживающая терапия

Центры проведения

Бразилия · 1 центр

• CMEI União Bica do Rio — Salvador

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT07458438 · CNPq30667020216

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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