Study Results
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COMPLETED
NA
144 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-09-21
2018-11-30
Brief Summary
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Targets: Parents aged 12-59 and their family members in Hong Kong.
Methods: Joyful Parenting Pilot Project will adopt the public health and family-focused approach, under the brand name of "Joyful@HK Campaign". Evidence-based and Evidence Generating approach with vigorous study design, both qualitative (e.g. focus groups) and quantitative (e.g. randomised controlled trial), will be used to evaluate the overall programme effectiveness including follow-up of at least one month ("best science"). To ensure the practicability and sustainability of the CBEP, we will engage community partners with strong track records of "best practice" to design, plan, and implement the intervention. This project will use innovative and integrated positive psychology and public health theories and methods to plan brief, simple, and cost-effective intervention.
Significance: By using "best science" in the design and evaluation of intervention programme, and the "best practice" of the partners' skills, experience and strong connection with service targets in the community, the intervention, if proven to be effective, for promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental wellbeing can be further developed and widely disseminated to and adopted by the practitioners in the health and social service sectors for replication and improvement to benefit the whole population.
Detailed Description
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Joyful Parenting Pilot Project is organized by the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society and led by the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). The project will organize two-session interactive talks for parents to promote praise and appreciation, positive thinking, enjoyable parenting and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder) and mental well-being; and one family gathering activity to promote and practice quality family communication. One wisdom sharing session will be organized for social workers and service practitioners to promote best practice of community mental wellness project.
The major subjects of the Joyful Parenting Pilot Project RCT Study are 120 parents and at least 240 family members. 4 family service units of Hong Kong Family Welfare Society will either be assigned into intervention groups or wait-list control groups. Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention programme.
In the study, parents and their family members will be invited to complete questionnaires to measure the behavioral indicators of sharing, mind and enjoyment, and mental well-being and/or invited to attend the focus group to understand the participants' experience during the programme while community partners will be invited to individual in-depth interviews. HKU team will conduct evaluation during the programme implementation stage. The effectiveness of the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention will also be evaluated.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Joyful Parenting Intervention
Subjects will participate in two-session interactive talks on joyful parenting (a core session intervention and booster intervention) and one family gathering activity; questionnaire evaluation will be conducted at baseline, post-session,1 month and 3 month after core session.
Joyful Parenting Intervention
* Two-session interactive talks for parents to promote praise \& appreciation, positive thinking, enjoyable parenting (mind) and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder) and mental well-being.
* One family gathering activity (e.g. outdoor / visit / family indoor gathering) to promote and practise quality family communication (enjoyment and sharing).
Control
No intervention will be provided to control groups during study period.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Joyful Parenting Intervention
* Two-session interactive talks for parents to promote praise \& appreciation, positive thinking, enjoyable parenting (mind) and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder) and mental well-being.
* One family gathering activity (e.g. outdoor / visit / family indoor gathering) to promote and practise quality family communication (enjoyment and sharing).
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Parents aged 18-59 (including single parents)
* Chinese speaking
* Able to complete questionnaires/ focus groups
2. Their family members:
* Family members of those parents who have already participated in the Joyful Parenting Pilot Project (Their family members could be children/ adolescents)
* Chinese speaking
* Able to complete questionnaires/ focus groups
3. Community partners
* Staff of Integrated Family Service Units, under Hong Kong Family Welfare Society in partnership with HKU research team, who organize, plan or implement the project
* Adults aged 18 or above
* Chinese speaking
* Able to complete questionnaires/ individual in-depth interviews
Exclusion Criteria
* Those who suffered from severe mental illness
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Hong Kong Family Welfare Society
OTHER
The University of Hong Kong
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Dr Sun Yuying
Post-doctoral Fellow
Principal Investigators
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Yuying Sun
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
The University of Hong Kong
Locations
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Hong Kong Family Welfare Society- North Point Integrated Family Service Centre
Hong Kong, , Hong Kong
Hong Kong Family Welfare Society- Yau Tong Integrated Family Service Centre
Hong Kong, , Hong Kong
Countries
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References
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Sun Y, Wang MP, Chan CS, Lo DLO, Wan ANT, Lam TH, Ho SY. Promoting positive parenting and mental wellbeing in Hong Kong Chinese parents: A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. PLoS One. 2022 Jul 20;17(7):e0270064. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270064. eCollection 2022.
Provided Documents
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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan
Other Identifiers
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SPH-MHP-FWS01
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id