Be Good Parents (Parent Education)

Summary

The collaborator has its vision as "To have children, individuals, families and migrants across countries live in dignity and harmony, and be contributing members to a just, humane and caring society." Parents are very significant in the families as they need nurturing, discipline, teaching, monitoring, and managing their children as well as their families. Capable and competent parents bring good child outcome and happy family. The investigators planned to serve targeted parents in two areas as 1. Emotion management and 2. Information on community resource. In the first set, the participants are expected to improve their emotion management leading to a more effective parenting. In the second set, the participants would acquire more information that enables them to better use the community resources.

To work closely with the collaborator, and based on the previous results of an effective parenting intervention, the investigators will modify the intervention to tailor the needs of targeted parents. The objectives are:

1. After completing the parenting intervention, 150 participants will, 1.1. To increase participants' emotion management strategies by 20%, 1.2. To enhance positive affect by 10%, 1.3. To decrease negative affect by 10%, 1.4. To enhance satisfaction with the parent-child relationship by 10%, 1.5. To increase subjective happiness by 8%, 1.6. To enhance family harmony by 5%, These levels of positive effects of the program were projected from the investigators' published findings.
2. After joining the information sessions about education, health care, housing, employment, and community facilities, another 150 participants will, 2.1 To know more information of Hong Kong by 50%, 2.2 To know more information of Mainland China by 50%, 2.3 To use more community resources either in Hong Kong or Mainland China by 50%.

To study the effectiveness of parenting intervention, the investigators proposed to use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that is a type of scientific study to reduce bias. Participants in this project will be randomly allocated to either the emotional management group or the information group. As the information group has no focus on parenting, participants would show no significant improvement in emotion management strategies or satisfaction with the parent-child relationship, etc. Meanwhile, participants in the parenting intervention would show no significant improvement in knowledge about either Hong Kong or Mainland China.

Conditions

• Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parenting

The parenting intervention consists of four weekly sessions, each lasting two hours. The intervention was designed according to the parenting characteristics of Chinese parents in Hong Kong. The four sessions cover: 1) response modification ("stop and rest"), 2) relaxation/enhancing positive moods ("relax and play"), 3) cognitive reframing ("think"), and 4) using social support ("talk and share). Discussion, practice, and questions are involved in each session.

BEHAVIORAL

Information

The information intervention consists of four weekly sessions, each lasting for two hours. The contents cover information and resources about education, medical care, housing, employment, and community facilities available in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• International Social Service Hong Kong Branch

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• City University of Hong Kong

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nancy Xiaonan Yu · City University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-03-02

Primary Completion

2017-11-29

Completion

2018-01-15

Countries

• China

Study Locations