Jockey Club Support Project

NCT ID: NCT07136064

Last Updated: 2026-02-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 450 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-11-15
• Study Completion Date: 2028-08-31

Brief Summary

Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.

Detailed Description

Researchers will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) intervention study targeting cross-boundary families' affect/emotion regulation skills as well as personal and family resilience. Researchers will implement two arms with the allocation ratio of 2:1. As most cross-boundary children are preoccupied with after-school academies and extracurricular activities, participating parents will receive four group activity sessions, while children will receive two sessions. The intervention themes and skills are the same for parents and children but condensed for children.

Researchers will collaborate with the International Social Services Hong Kong Branch (Shenzhen) (hereinafter referred to as "ISS"), an NGO that has served cross-boundary families in Shenzhen for over 30 years.

Conditions

Family Relations; Resilience; Emotion Regulation

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Intervention Arm

This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.

Control

This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.

Interventions

Emotion Regulation Skills Training

This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Moderation in Consumer Electronics Use Training

This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. have at least one child between the fifth and twelfth grade;

2. can participate in the intervention with their child;

3. are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;

4. live in Shenzhen.

1. are between the fifth and twelfth grade;

2. are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;

3. live in Shenzhen.

Exclusion Criteria

(a) those who have current diagnoses of severe physical or mental illnesses;

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

International Social Services Hong Kong Branch

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

City University of Hong Kong

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Dr. Nancy Xiaonan Yu

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Nancy X Yu, Doctoral

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

City University of Hong Kong

Locations

International Social Service Hong Kong Branch

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

China

Central Contacts

Nancy X Yu, Doctoral

Role: CONTACT

nancy.yu@cityu.edu.hk

85234429436

Facility Contacts

Iris Liu

Role: primary

i.liu@isshk.org

(852)28346863

Other Identifiers

Jockey Club Support Project

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id