The Development and Evaluation of a Single Session Intervention for Parent Distress Tolerance

NCT ID: NCT05955898

Last Updated: 2025-07-11

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

56 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-05-17

Study Completion Date

2024-06-27

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to study different ways to help parents cope with strong emotions. The study team will be looking at how two different treatments help parents learn to manage strong emotions. These treatments are one session and are completed online, without a therapist, like an online training or class.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Parents Mental Health Issue Distress, Emotional

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Parents THRIVE Group

Participants in this group will receive the Parents THRIVE intervention. Participants will be in this group for up to two hours.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Parents THRIVE

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Parents THRIVE is a digital, one-time intervention that will give parents strategies to cope with their emotions and improve their distress tolerance. Parents will learn how to increase their emotion awareness to better tolerate strong emotions, such as anxiety, sadness, anger, and frustration.

Sharing Feelings Project Group

Participants in this group will receive the Sharing Feelings Group intervention. Participants will be in this group for up to two hours.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Sharing Feelings Project

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Sharing Feelings Project is a digital, one-time program that focuses on the benefit of sharing emotions with others and will be used as a control. Parents will read about how sharing their emotions can be helpful and anecdotes from others' experiences sharing emotions.

Interventions

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Parents THRIVE

Parents THRIVE is a digital, one-time intervention that will give parents strategies to cope with their emotions and improve their distress tolerance. Parents will learn how to increase their emotion awareness to better tolerate strong emotions, such as anxiety, sadness, anger, and frustration.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Sharing Feelings Project

Sharing Feelings Project is a digital, one-time program that focuses on the benefit of sharing emotions with others and will be used as a control. Parents will read about how sharing their emotions can be helpful and anecdotes from others' experiences sharing emotions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Live in the United States.
* Parent of a child aged 6-17 years old who has received at least one counseling or mental health treatment session from a provider in the last 6 months will be eligible to participate.
* Parent is not currently receiving psychotherapy or counseling for a mental health concern (or received such in the past six months).
* Parent reported poor distress tolerance (DT). Poor DT will be defined as a score of less than 54 on the Distress Tolerance Scale.
* Due to language limitations of the primary researcher, parents will be eligible if they comfortably speak and read in English.
* Parents must have a mobile device (e.g., laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) or desktop computer and internet access sufficient for the delivery of the study assessments and intervention online.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Miami

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jill May Ehrenreich

Professor, Associate Chair

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jill Ehrenreich-May, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Miami

Elizabeth R Halliday, MS

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Miami

Locations

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University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Cheron DM, Ehrenreich JT, Pincus DB. Assessment of parental experiential avoidance in a clinical sample of children with anxiety disorders. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2009 Sep;40(3):383-403. doi: 10.1007/s10578-009-0135-z. Epub 2009 Mar 12.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 19280337 (View on PubMed)

Simons, J. S., & Gaher, R. M. (2005). The Distress Tolerance Scale: Development and validation of a self-report measure. Motivation and Emotion, 29(2), 83-102.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Norman SB, Cissell SH, Means-Christensen AJ, Stein MB. Development and validation of an Overall Anxiety Severity And Impairment Scale (OASIS). Depress Anxiety. 2006;23(4):245-9. doi: 10.1002/da.20182.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16688739 (View on PubMed)

Bentley KH, Gallagher MW, Carl JR, Barlow DH. Development and validation of the Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale. Psychol Assess. 2014 Sep;26(3):815-830. doi: 10.1037/a0036216. Epub 2014 Apr 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24708078 (View on PubMed)

Goodman R. Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2001 Nov;40(11):1337-45. doi: 10.1097/00004583-200111000-00015.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11699809 (View on PubMed)

Schleider, J. L., & Weisz, J. R. (2019). Sharing feelings project. Open Science Framework.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Schleider JL, Dobias ML, Sung JY, Mullarkey MC. Future Directions in Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2020 Mar-Apr;49(2):264-278. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2019.1683852. Epub 2019 Dec 4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31799863 (View on PubMed)

Ehrenreich-May, J., Kennedy, S. M., Sherman, J. A., Bilek, E. L., Buzzella, B. A., Bennett, S. M., & Barlow, D. H. (2017). Unified protocols for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in children and adolescents: Therapist guide. Oxford University Press.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Barlow, D. H., Farchione, T. J., Sauer-Zavala, S., Latin, H. M., Ellard, K. K., Bullis, J. R., ... & Cassiello-Robbins, C. (2017). Unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: Therapist guide. Oxford University Press.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

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20230552

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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