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Mindfulness Intervention for Parents of Children With ASD

NCT05746468 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 526

Last updated 2024-12-05

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Summary

This study aims to develop a smartphone app based on mindfulness-based interventions and test its effectiveness in parents of children with ASD. This study aims:

1. To establish the relationship between different life events, cognitive appraisal, and the psychological distress between parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD);
2. To demonstrate the relationship between parents' cognitive appraisal of life events and psychological distress moderated by mindfulness;
3. To examine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) via ecological momentary intervention (EMI) in reducing the psychological distress of parents of children with ASD;
4. To calculate the cost-effectiveness of MBI via EMI in reducing the psychological distress of parents of children with ASD.

Conditions

  • Mindfulness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Ecological assessment and intervention

The MBI-EMI app will include five main parts, including virtual counselor, intervention library, weekly mindfulness practice, assessment bank and daily emotion log. In the eight weeks, the virtual counselor will initiate the conversation every day for three times (morning, afternoon and evening) to check the status of the participants. If the participants responded, the virtual counselor would invite the participants to rate their level of depression, stress and anxiety and then recommend appropriate mindfulness practice in the intervention library, such as 3-minute breathing space or mindful eating. The conversation between the virtual counselor and participants will be in the format of menu list and participants can easily choose from different options.

BEHAVIORAL

Audio-based Mindfulness intervention

The control group will receive audio recordings of how to practice mindfulness at home.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Qi Wang · Lingnan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-31
Primary Completion
2025-07-31
Completion
2025-12-31

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