Clinical trial NCT05829408: KOPPeling: Help From Your Own Circle
Official title: KOPPeling: Help From Your Own Circle
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Children of Parents With a Mental Illness (COPMI)
Keywords: COPMI
Prevention
Social participation
Mental illness
Lead sponsor: University Medical Center Groningen
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Accare
name: WIJ Groningen
name: GGZ Friesland
name: Amaryllis Leeuwarden
name: Hanzehogeschool Groningen
name: Lentis
First posted: 2023-04-25
Enrollment: 128
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of the KOPPeling intervention that aims at unburdening COPMI (Children Of Parents with a Mental Illness). COPMI are at risk of overtaking the tasks of their parents when their parents are unable to fulfil such due to their psychiatric condition. By overtaking tasks and the urge to always take care of their parents, COPMI often do not participate in outdoor activities, which are necessary for their socio-emotional development. Moreover, insufficient socio-emotional development and parentification are risk factors for the development of psychiatric conditions.

KOPPeling is an intervention for COPMI families that focuses on activating the social networks of the families. Within KOPPeling, a strategic plan will be developed and carried out with the goal of receiving support from the social network that will overtake tasks of the family to unburden COPMI.

This study aims to answer the following questions:

1. To what extent does KOPPeling lead to an increase in Quality of Life (QoL) among COPMI?
2. To what extent does KOPPeling lead to an increase in mental health among COPMI?
3. To what extent does KOPPeling lead to a reduction of parenting stress among COPMI parents?
4. To what extent does KOPPeling lead to an increase in outdoor activities among COPMI?
5. How does KOPPeling affect the feelings of guilt of COPMI when engaging in outdoor activities?
6. What pre-conditions are needed to make KOPPeling widely applicable?
7. What are the long-term effects of KOPPeling on the QoL and psychological problems among COPMI and parental stress among COPMI parents?

Participants will participate in the ten-to-twelve-week long KOPPeling intervention. Researchers will compare the intervention group with a waiting list control group to test the effect of KOPPeling on the QoL and mental health of COPMI and parental stress of parents.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The family has children aged 0-18 living at home
* The parental disorder influences the parent's (or parents') ability to carry out several important parental tasks, placing their offspring at risk of taking over these tasks

Exclusion Criteria:

- The family has no existing social network

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Quality of Life (QoL) of COPMI
timeFrame: At T0 (baseline, start of intervention), T1 (end of intervention) and T2 (three months after the end of intervention), total time frame: 22 to 24 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in mental health of COPMI
timeFrame: At T0 (baseline, start of intervention), T1 (end of intervention) and T2 (three months after the end of intervention), total time frame: 22 to 24 weeks
measure: Change in parental stress of COPMI parents
timeFrame: At T0 (baseline, start of intervention), T1 (end of intervention) and T2 (three months after the end of intervention), total time frame: 22 to 24 weeks
measure: Change in engagement in outdoor activities of COPMI
timeFrame: For one week after the start of the intervention and one week before the end of the intervention
measure: Change in guilt of COPMI when engaging in outdoor activities
timeFrame: For one week after the start of the intervention and one week before the end of the intervention
measure: Experiences of the social networks made with KOPPeling
timeFrame: At the end of the intervention (ten to twelve weeks after the start of the intervention)
measure: Promoting and hindering factors of making KOPPeling a widely applicable intervention
timeFrame: At the end of the intervention (ten to twelve weeks after the start of the intervention)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Groningen
country: Netherlands
facility: UMC Groningen
Study officials:
affiliation: University Medical Center Groningen
name: Frederike Jörg, Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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