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A Psychological Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Mainland New Immigrants to Hong Kong

NCT02986022 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 241

Last updated 2018-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background:

Resilience is important for successful adaptation. The investigators' resilience intervention was effective in enhancing resilience, emotional functioning, and adaptation in Mainland immigrants. In the present proposal, the investigators will work with the International Social Service to scale up application of this intervention in immigrants, and develop the training infrastructure to ensure that the evidence-based intervention can be sustained despite turnover of interventionists.

Objectives:

1. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the resilience intervention with the resilience + information intervention (a compound module) among 200 new immigrants,
2. The resilience intervention will enhance participants' resilience by 5%, and decrease their depressive symptoms by 20% and adaptation difficulties by 10% after the completion of the intervention,
3. The resilience + information intervention will have higher increases in resilience and more decreases in depressive symptoms and adaptation difficulties compared to the resilience intervention, and
4. To establish a sustaining mechanism which ensures that these two interventions can continue to be used in routine services.

Project design:

Well-trained social workers will deliver the intervention. Participants will complete programme evaluation. A train-the-trainer workshop and training materials will be prepared to transfer knowledge to social workers who are future trainers.

Conditions

  • Resilience

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Resilience

Self-efficacy, optimism, altruism, goal setting

BEHAVIORAL

Information

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
2016-12-07
Primary Completion
2018-02-08
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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