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Training Parents by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Managing Childhood Asthma Care

NCT02405962 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 168

Last updated 2019-02-12

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether a parental training program using group-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for childhood asthma care, is effective in reducing the children's unplanned health care services utilization and asthmatic symptoms.

Conditions

  • Childhood Asthma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ACT

Four sessions of group-based ACT integrated with asthma education. Each session will compose of pediatric asthma education based on guidelines of Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention Revised 2011, plus group-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The goal of ACT is to enhance the psychological flexibility of the parents, enabling them to (1) become aware of their thoughts and feelings regarding their child's asthma and its management, (2) accept and adapt flexibly to challenging situations, and (3) take actions to achieve valued goals in childhood asthma management.

BEHAVIORAL

Control

One session of educational talk about pediatric asthma care, as the usual care. To ensure the equivalency of the assigned sessions between groups, after attending the talk in the first week, the parents in the Control group will receive three telephone calls, starting from the second week on a weekly basis. This arrangement can also minimize the interference of the usual care naturalistically available in the study setting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yim Wah Mak, PhD · School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-01-31
Completion
2017-01-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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