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A Self-compassion Intervention for Parents of Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

NCT04717284 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 159

Last updated 2022-04-28

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Summary

Parenting a child with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can understandably be challenging and distressing at times. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate the effectiveness of an online self-compassion intervention (SCI), that focuses on helping individuals respond to themselves in a kinder and more accepting way, for parents of children with IBD.

Around 150 parents of children with IBD will be randomly allocated to receive either the online SCI or a control condition. This will involve an initial administration and a two-week follow-up period. Participants will complete outcome measures of self-compassion, distress and shame at three time points.

We hypothesise that, in comparison to a control group, participants receiving the online SCI will: (1) report increased state self-compassion and reduced state shame and distress immediately following the SCI; and (2) report increased trait self-compassion and reduced parental stress after repeated engagement in the SCI materials for two weeks.

Through understanding the effectiveness of an online SCI for parents of children with IBD, we hope that our research will help to inform and improve parental support offered to parents of children with IBD.

Conditions

  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

Self-compassion intervention (SCI)

All participants will be asked to recall a recent parenting event they feel ashamed of and type it into a text box provided. Participants in the SCI group will then be instructed to reflect on their recalled parenting event and prompted to think about and write about the event in a self-compassionate manner. The prompt is designed to induce on all of the three key elements of self-compassion described by Neff (2003a): self-kindness; common humanity; and mindfulness. The same instructions will be provided for follow-up period.

OTHER

Control condition

All participants will be asked to recall a recent parenting event they feel ashamed of and type it into a text box provided. Participants in the control group will then be instructed to make notes about factual information of the event (e.g. time of day, who was there, the weather, etc.). During the two-week follow-up period, participants in the control group will not take part in any intervention as part of the trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sheffield

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • A Wray · University of Sheffield

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-20
Primary Completion
2021-12-11
Completion
2021-12-11

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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