A Psychological Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Mainland New Immigrants to Hong Kong
NCT ID: NCT02986022
Last Updated: 2018-07-18
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
241 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-12-07
2018-03-31
Brief Summary
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Resilience is important for successful adaptation. The investigators' resilience intervention was effective in enhancing resilience, emotional functioning, and adaptation in Mainland immigrants. In the present proposal, the investigators will work with the International Social Service to scale up application of this intervention in immigrants, and develop the training infrastructure to ensure that the evidence-based intervention can be sustained despite turnover of interventionists.
Objectives:
1. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the resilience intervention with the resilience + information intervention (a compound module) among 200 new immigrants,
2. The resilience intervention will enhance participants' resilience by 5%, and decrease their depressive symptoms by 20% and adaptation difficulties by 10% after the completion of the intervention,
3. The resilience + information intervention will have higher increases in resilience and more decreases in depressive symptoms and adaptation difficulties compared to the resilience intervention, and
4. To establish a sustaining mechanism which ensures that these two interventions can continue to be used in routine services.
Project design:
Well-trained social workers will deliver the intervention. Participants will complete programme evaluation. A train-the-trainer workshop and training materials will be prepared to transfer knowledge to social workers who are future trainers.
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Detailed Description
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This resilience intervention (see Supplement 2) consists of 4 sessions, each lasting for 2 hours, finished within two weeks. This intervention is built on the international and local evidence about positive characteristics that promote successful immigration and effective strategies that enhance psychological well-being.
We will promote this intervention programme in new immigrants, and recruit participants by open recruitment, contacting current service users of the community agency, referral and cold call. Orientation gatherings will be organized to screen for eligible immigrants.
The resilience + information intervention consists of 4 sessions, each lasting for 2.5 hours, finished within two weeks. In each session, the resilience section will last for 2 hours (identical to the resilience intervention), and the information intervention will be half an hour. Similar to our previous information intervention, this information section will cover transportation, housing, medical service, education, and employment, the important information helpful for the immigrants' adaptation.
Participants will receive four sessions, either the resilience intervention or the resilience + information intervention. Unlike most programmes that have not been developed in the community, we have identified some key strategies to reduce attrition during the intervention. Before each session, social workers will call participants to remind them of the coming session. During the intervention, we will provide child care upon participants' request. For those who are unable to attend a specific sessions, social workers will conduct a make-up on the content, and provide general encouragement that attendance of further sessions will bring important gains. During the follow-up period, social workers will send reminder postcards to participants. At the end of the intervention, participants will obtain a certificate in recognition of their participation in this programme. Evaluation will be conducted before the first session (pre-intervention) and immediately after the intervention (post-intervention).
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Resilience
Participants will receive four sessions covering Resilience intervention content
Resilience
Self-efficacy, optimism, altruism, goal setting
Resilience+Information
Participants will receive four sessions covering Resilience intervention and Information intervention contents.
Resilience
Self-efficacy, optimism, altruism, goal setting
Information
Information and resources about education, medical care, housing, employment, and community facilities available in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Interventions
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Resilience
Self-efficacy, optimism, altruism, goal setting
Information
Information and resources about education, medical care, housing, employment, and community facilities available in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* have least a primary school education
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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International Social Service Hong Kong Branch
UNKNOWN
City University of Hong Kong
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Nancy Xiaonan Yu
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigators
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Nancy Xiaonan Yu
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
City University of Hong Kong
Locations
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City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, , China
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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HCPF2016
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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