The Effects of an Empowerment Program for Parents of Children With Autism

NCT ID: NCT06629974

Last Updated: 2024-10-08

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

69 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-30

Study Completion Date

2022-12-23

Brief Summary

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This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an empowerment program that includes both parent training and motivational interviewing for parents of children with autism, supporting their competence in the care of their children.

Detailed Description

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This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of an empowerment program for parents of children with autism to support their competence in caring for their children. This randomized controlled study was conducted in Manisa city center/Turkey, in 2022. A total of 69 parents (intervention: 34, control: 35) were included in this unblinded, two-group randomized controlled interventional study. A parent empowerment program, including four parental training sessions and two motivational interview sessions, were applied to the parents in the intervention group. The Parental Self-Efficacy Scale, Zarit Care Burden Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and Family Empowerment Scale were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the empowerment program.

Conditions

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Autism Parenting Motivational Interviewing

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This unblinded, randomized controlled interventional study with two parallel groups involved parents of children diagnosed with autism. Participants were stratified according to their educational status, and each participant was assigned a number. Participants within each stratum were assigned to either the intervention or control groups using simple randomization with a table of random numbers.The study was completed with a total of 69 participants: 34 in the intervention group and 35 in the control group.
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Participants in this group were administered the pre-intervention introductory information form, The Parental Self-Efficacy Scale, the Zarit Care Burden Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Family Empowerment Scale. Then, a group empowerment training program consisting of four sessions in total was applied to the participants. Two motivational interview sessions were conducted with each participant in the intervention group 10 days after the empowerment training program. One month after the motivational interview sessions were completed, post-test data were collected.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Parental empowerment program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The empowerment program consisted of two parts: the empowerment training program for parents and motivational interviews.

The empowerment training program was prepared to enable parents to carry out the care process more effectively in areas where parents have difficulties caring for their children with autism. Within the scope of the empowerment training program, parents were trained on the importance of play and communication, problems and management in the field of nutrition, sleep problems and management, safety and protection from accidents, and problems and management in the field of self-care.

Ten days after the empowerment training program, two face-to-face motivational interviews were conducted with each participant in the intervention group. Each participant had a one-week break between the first and second motivational interviews. Each motivational interview session lasted approximately 25-30 minutes.

Control group

No intervention was applied to the control group. The data collection tools applied to the intervention group in the pre-test and post-test were also applied to the control group.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Parental empowerment program

The empowerment program consisted of two parts: the empowerment training program for parents and motivational interviews.

The empowerment training program was prepared to enable parents to carry out the care process more effectively in areas where parents have difficulties caring for their children with autism. Within the scope of the empowerment training program, parents were trained on the importance of play and communication, problems and management in the field of nutrition, sleep problems and management, safety and protection from accidents, and problems and management in the field of self-care.

Ten days after the empowerment training program, two face-to-face motivational interviews were conducted with each participant in the intervention group. Each participant had a one-week break between the first and second motivational interviews. Each motivational interview session lasted approximately 25-30 minutes.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

* Having a child with a concomitant disability or disease (e.g., epilepsy, attention deficit, and hyperactivity disorder, other physical or mental disabilities), previous participation in an education program with similar content, or parents who did not participate in at least two-thirds of the empowerment training program or did not attend all motivational interview sessions were excluded from the study, and their data were not included in the analysis.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Celal Bayar University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Damla Şahin Büyük, Phd

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Manisa Celal Bayar University

Locations

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Manisa Celal Bayar University

Manisa, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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Guimond, A., Moore, H., Aier, D., Maxon, E., Diken, I., 2005. Parental self-efficacy instrument for children with disabilities (PSICD): Short version. Unpublished scale. Arizona: Arizona State University.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Diken, I. H., 2007.Turkish mothers' self-efficacy beliefs and styles of interactions with their children with language delays. Early Child Dev. Care 179, 425-436.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Cavkaytar, A., Aksoy, V., & Ardıç, A., 2014. Updating the validity and reliability study of the parent self-efficacy scale. Anadolu J. Educ. Sci. Int. 4, 69-76.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Zarit SH, Reever KE, Bach-Peterson J. Relatives of the impaired elderly: correlates of feelings of burden. Gerontologist. 1980 Dec;20(6):649-55. doi: 10.1093/geront/20.6.649. No abstract available.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 7203086 (View on PubMed)

Sahin Buyuk D, Ozmen D. Effectiveness of a Parent Empowerment Program for Parents of Children with Autism: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Child Care Health Dev. 2025 Sep;51(5):e70148. doi: 10.1111/cch.70148.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 40751565 (View on PubMed)

Karakul, A., Akgül, E. A., Doğan, P., Sarı, H. Y., 2018. Psychometric properties of the family empowerment scale in Turkish. Izmir Katip Celebi Univ. J. Health Sci. 3(3) 111.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Singh, N. N., Curtis, W. J., Ellis, C. R., Nicholson, M. W., Villani, T. M., Wechsler, H. A., 1995. Psychometric analysis of the family empowerment scale. J. Emotion. Behav. Disord. 3, 85-91.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Eskin, M., Harlak, H., Demirkıran, F., Dereboy, Ç., 2013. Adaptation of the perceived stress scale into Turkish: reliability and validity analysis. New Symp. J. 51, 132-140.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983 Dec;24(4):385-96. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 6668417 (View on PubMed)

Inci, F., Erdem, M., 2006. Adaptation of the Caregiving Burden Scale into Turkish, its validity and reliability. Anatol. J. Nurs. Health Sci. 11, 85-95.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

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MCBU-SBF-RK-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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