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NCT07136064
Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.
NCT04633473
In the United States, over 32.7 million people have special health, developmental, and mental health concerns. Most of these people have typically developing brothers and sisters. Across the lifespan, siblings share high levels of involvement in each other's lives, and also many of the concerns that parents of children with special needs experience, including isolation, a need for information, concerns about the future, and caregiving demands. Brothers and sisters also face issues that are uniquely theirs including emotions (resentment, worry, embarrassment, guilt), peer issues, and family communication challenges. The team of researchers, developers, and consultants built and tested an assistive media enhanced web-application tool for developing knowledge, skills, and routines for attending to TD siblings' (ages 3-5) social-emotional health and well-being.
NCT03360201
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a family counseling intervention, entitled "Tuko Pamoja" (Translation "We are Together" in Kiswahili). The intervention, delivered by lay counselors and through existing community social structures, is expected to improve family functioning and individual mental health among members. The sample includes highly distressed families with a child or adolescent (ages 8-17) exhibiting emotional or behavioral concerns; as such, particular emphasis is placed on adolescent-focused outcomes, including mental health and well-being.
NCT05405972
The purpose of this study is to investigate a behavioral intervention with foster families.
NCT05948787
The Strong Families Programme was introduced by UNODC in the Philippines in 2018 through the training of facilitators. Twenty-six participants trained in the program from different cities and municipalities. Afterward, Caloocan, Marikina, Palawan, Pasig, and Quezon City Local Government Units (LGUs) started to train more facilitators to allow them to pilot the program in their communities. Eventually, these cities and municipalities managed to engage families to benefit from the Strong Families Programme. The current study aims to explore the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of this universal prevention program with families in the Philippines, and the feasibility of delivering the program. The primary objective will be to test the effectiveness of the Strong Families program in improving family skills outcomes and caregiver and child mental health, as reported by caregivers, when implemented in the Philippines. The secondary objective will be to calculate the extent of family's attendance of Strong Families sessions, to evaluate completeness of program delivery. The tertiary objective will be to explore the cultural and contextual acceptability of the Strong Families program for families in the Philippines. A two-arm feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial with two arms: 1) Implementation of Strong Families (Intervention Group) and 2) Wait list/Control (Services-as-usual). This trial will have an embedded process evaluation. This study will take place in five locations in the Philippines. The implementation usually happens at the Barangay Level (The smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward)
NCT00996541
Runaway and homeless youth are at risk for HIV based upon their rates of substance use, particularly injection drug use, unprotected sexual intercourse, multiple partners, and sexually transmitted diseases. Risk increases as the time away from home increases. STRIVE is a family intervention aimed at increasing residential stability, decreasing runaway episodes, and decreasing HIV risk. Families are randomly assigned to a cognitive-behavioral skills-building intervention consisting of five weekly sessions delivered at family homes, or are assigned to standard care. Sessions are aimed at increasing problem solving, role clarity, and positive interactions. It is hypothesized that the intervention will result in improved family dynamics, less runaway behavior, and less risky behavior.
NCT05275413
The proposed study is to test the effectiveness of a culturally-attuned, family-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention in reducing symptoms of postnatal depression and promoting health among expectant mothers in Hong Kong. Using a family perspective, the proposed mHealth intervention will engage family members, including expectant fathers and grandparents, in providing support to expectant mothers. Expectant mothers and their family members will be recruited at antenatal clinics at two public hospitals in Hong Kong and randomized to receive the family-based mHealth intervention (experimental), the mother-only mHealth intervention (experimental), or the health education (control). Maternal depression, anxiety and stress, perceived social support, health-related quality of life, and perceived family cohesion will be assessed at recruitment and four weeks after childbirth. For family members, symptoms of anxiety and stress, health-related quality of life, and perceived family cohesion will be measured.
NCT03943628
The proposed study will evaluate the efficacy of a family-based obesity prevention intervention in increasing physical activity and improving the quality of dietary intake among Hispanic Youth. Additional primary outcomes that will be examined include drug use and sexual risk behaviors. Secondary outcomes include examining the effects of family functioning and BMI. The knowledge expected to be gained in this study will have strong implications for prevention as well as contribute to the reduction of obesity-related health disparities seen in Hispanic youth.
NCT03000985
The involvement of family members is crucial and improves the prognosis of psychiatric patients and reinforces therapeutic adherence and reduces the frequency of relapses. For schizophrenia, the scientific literature clearly shows that it's in the interest of the patient to offer to his family a psychoeducational program. Therapeutic education programs are now part of the recommendations of good clinical practice and in the French health through the law n ° 2009-879 of July 21, 2009 on the reform of the hospital and relating to patients, health and territories.
NCT03029221
This project evaluates Real Relationships, a program provided by the Children's Aid Society (CAS) in Clearfield County, and funded through the DHHS Healthy Marriage (and Responsible Fatherhood) program. Research questions focus on recruitment and retention of participants, and short- and long-term participant outcomes associated with different formats for offering the program.
NCT02787460
The University of Florida offers relationship education programs named ELEVATE, for couples, and Smart Steps, for couples in stepfamilies, in Citrus, Duval, Manatee, Palm Beach, and Santa Rosa counties. Each workshop comprises 4 2.5-hour long sessions. The STREAMS evaluation will examine whether text messages informed by behavioral insight theory can improve couples' attendance at relationship skills education group sessions, and if so, which kinds of messages are most effective
NCT04065867
In the past few decades, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have rapidly developed as effective, and probably the most cost-effective tools to connect most aspects of family lives. Alongside the growth in popularity of ICTs and its role in promoting family well-being, there is also an increasing appreciation that ICTs such as internet-enabled devices and web-based applications can offer many advantages compared to traditional face-to-face approaches when delivering behaviour change programmes. To gain more understanding of the potential new avenues of using ICT in programme implementation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has initiated the Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This project aimed at helping 26 NGO-operated Integrated Family Service Centres and Integrated Service Centres (Centres), making effective use of information and communications technology (ICT) and data analytics, to enhance the quality and efficiency of their family service. The present study aims to supplement the existing services and interventions delivered by the FRU, FSU and FCU, a series of brief ICT-based family interventions that promote family communication, cohesion, support and well-being and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT-based interventions.
NCT03872895
The adjustment of adopted adolescents has been studied in the U.S. and England, but few other European countries have conducted research into this topic. As countries differ greatly in their cultural practices, a comparative study of the adjustment of internationally adopted teenagers in 4 European countries (France, Italy, Spain, Norway) is planned. The adjustment of teens and their families will be studied in relation to the openness of communication related to adoption within the families.
NCT02765139
The objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of Engaging Men in Accountable Practice (EMAP) on the prevention of violence against women and girls in North and South Kivu (DRC). The study is conducted jointly by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). EMAP is a program developed and implemented by the IRC to engage men to reflect on how to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence through 16 weekly group discussion sessions. The study is a cluster randomized control trial in which two groups of 25 self-selected men in 15 communities receive the EMAP intervention while in 15 other communities, 50 self-selected men receive an alternative intervention. Key outcomes examined include: (i) Experience of past year physical, sexual and psychological violence reported by women whose partners are EMAP participants; (ii) Participant's gender attitudes and behaviors, conflict and hostility management skills; (iii) Power sharing and communication within the couple.
NCT01720992
Background: Shamshuipo District has the highest proportion of low income families, and a relatively large percentage of single parents, elderly, new immigrants among all districts in Hong Kong (Census and Statistics Department, 2011). In addition to provide these families substantial support, a campaign to enhance their family well-being is needed. Aim: This project is conducted to enhance their family relationship as well as family happiness, health and harmony (3Hs) among families in the Shamshuipo District, through a community-based intervention programme combined with a planning tool (booklet). Methods: This project adopts a cluster-randomized controlled design, with the application of positive psychology concepts as a theoretical framework. A community-based participatory (CBP) approach, which is an effective way to engage public health researchers and community members (NGOs, other major stakeholders, and participants), will be used. Both quantitative and qualitative methods will be used in the evaluation of major outcomes (participants' family relationship and 3Hs) at different time points throughout the project. Process evaluation will be performed to evaluate the process of each component of the project. Procedure: This project will be conducted in three phases. Phase 1 includes planning, implementation, and evaluation of a training programme for social workers from the 30 participating NGOs. The social workers will be equipped with the knowledge and skills of the application of positive psychology as well as logic model. This phase also includes the launching event to arouse public awareness of the project. Phase 2 includes designing, delivering, and evaluating 30 community-based intervention programmes. A planning tool (designed as a booklet) will be distributed to participants of the intervention group in the form of 'homework assignment' immediate after the intervention programme; whereas participants of the control group will receive the booklet upon the completion of the three months follow-up questionnaire assessment. This phase also contains focus group interviews among participants to collect their experiences, feelings and changes in families after attending the intervention programme. Focus groups among social workers will be conducted afterwards to explore their barriers and facilitators in programme implementation; as well as their personal and/or collective growth in conducting the project. In-depth interview among community stakeholders will be held to explore the social impact of the CBPR project, and collect their suggestions for future implementation. Phase 3 is a dissimilation phase that the "Positive Family Education Booklet" and "Positive Family Practice Manual" will be released. A practice wisdom forum for social workers and other major stakeholders will also be organized to share their experiences in conducting the community-based programmes. Primary hypothesis: Families participated in a community-based programme and received a toolkit (intervention group) have higher scores in their family relationship and family 3Hs than families who participated in a community-based programme only (control group). Secondary hypotheses: (1) Participants' attitudes towards and intention of practising the suggested behaviours will be increased immediately after their participation in the community-based intervention programme; (2) Participants' attitudes towards, their intention, as well as frequency of practising the suggested behaviours will remain higher at 6 weeks and 3 months after the intervention compared to the corresponding figures of pre-intervention (baseline); (3) Participants' scores of family relationship and 3Hs will be significantly higher at 6 weeks and 3 months after their participation in the intervention.