Project KING: To Strengthen Parent-child Relationship and Adaptation

Summary

This study aims at improving the emotional regulation strategies, enhancing the parent-child relationship and preventing family conflict among newly arrived and cross-boundary families in Hong Kong. We will provide one of the interventions to the participants: (a) the emotion regulation arm, which aimed at improving the emotion management skill for parent and child; or (b) the information provision arm, which aimed at providing information about Hong Kong, such as education, community resources, medical care, employment, housing, and job-seeking. We aim to recruit 200 parent-child pairs to participate in the study. The participants will be randomly assigned into an emotion regulation arm or an information provision arm. The ratio of the two arms is 3:2. Specifically, 120 and 80 parent-child pairs will be assigned to the emotion regulation arm and the information provision arm, respectively. The two intervention arms will provide four 2-hour weekly sessions to the participants. Before the intervention (T1), immediately after the intervention (T2), and one month after completing the intervention (T3), the participants will finish the assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.

Conditions

• Emotions
• Family Conflict
• Adaptation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion regulation

Emotion regulation arm will provide the parents and children with four 2-hour weekly sessions. For the parents, the main topics include raising awareness of emotions (e.g., learning emotions theories), developing skills to manage emotions (e.g., attention deployment, cognitive changes, response modification), and facilitating parent-child relationship (e.g., gratitude). For children, the main topics are similar to that in parents' intervention. In this arm, we give more specific examples and simple explanations to the children.

BEHAVIORAL

Information provision

Information provision arm will provide the parents and children with four 2-hour weekly sessions. For the parents, the main topics in these four sessions include learning the general information about Hong Kong such as education and medical care, housing condition, employment and training. For children, the main topics include learning the general information about Hong Kong, such as education, community facility, and learning method.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• International Social Services Hong Kong Branch

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• City University of Hong Kong

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nancy YU, Dr. · City University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-04-10

Primary Completion

2022-01-28

Completion

2022-02-17

Countries

• China

Study Locations