The Effects of Dyadic Parent-child Self-compassion Program on Children' Psychological Well-being: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT ID: NCT06255405

Last Updated: 2024-02-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2024-09-30

Brief Summary

Suboptimal psychological well-being in children can have substantial negative effects on their physical health, academic performance, and lifelong health. Preliminary evidence supports that self-compassion have positive impacts on psychological well-being in elderly, adults, and adolescents, but there is apparently lack of this kind of evidence in children. Involvement of parents in the program potentially optimize the effects, this study thus designs a dyadic parent-child self-compassion program (DPC-SC) and aim to examine its effects on children's psychological well-being.

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Experimental: Intervention group

Dyadic parent-child self-compassion program will be provided.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Self-compassion

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The dyadic parent-child self-compassion program is designed by the research team and validated by a panel of experts. It includes 5 weekly sessions. Each session lasts for 60 minutes. The dyads will be guided to do self-compassion practices (e.g. affectionate breathing, compassionate letters to oneself etc). Didactic topics, inquiry, and home practices are also involved.

Waitlist control group

Participants in the control group will be instructed to live their lives as usual, no intervention will be imposed during study period. They will be provided with the program after the study.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Self-compassion

The dyadic parent-child self-compassion program is designed by the research team and validated by a panel of experts. It includes 5 weekly sessions. Each session lasts for 60 minutes. The dyads will be guided to do self-compassion practices (e.g. affectionate breathing, compassionate letters to oneself etc). Didactic topics, inquiry, and home practices are also involved.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Study in Primary three or four.
• Can communicate in Cantonese.

• Is the primary caretaker of the children
• Is willing to interact and do the practices with their children
• Can communicate in Cantonese
• Commit to attend all sessions

Exclusion Criteria

• Have emotional dysregulation
• Have past history of mental illness
• Recently experience trauma
• Are in an acute health crisis

• Have emotional dysregulation
• Have past history of mental illness
• Recently experience trauma
• Are in an acute health crisis

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hong Kong Metropolitan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Wai Man Sin, MN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Central Contacts

Wai Man Sin, MN

Role: CONTACT

s1187434@live.hkmu.edu.hk

852-98328979

Other Identifiers

HE-SF2022/03

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id