Clinical trial NCT05977114: 4Rs for a Better Family
Official title: 4Rs for a Better Family (Review, Refresh, Restore, Rebuild) 家好之四重計劃: 重溫、重整、重塑、重建
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Relations
Lead sponsor: City University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-04
Enrollment: 456
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a family conflict intervention in Chinese New Arrival families in Hong Kong.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve adaptive parent-child conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?
* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to reduce parent-child conflicts compared to the control group?
* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve adaptive parental conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?
* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to enhance family harmony compared to the control group?
* Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to enhance family resilience compared to the control group?

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups: the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group. For each group, parents will participate in 3 sessions independently, children will participate in 2 sessions independently, and parents and children will jointly participate in 1 session. Each session takes around 2 hours, and it takes 4 weeks to complete the full intervention. The family conflict intervention sessions include an introduction to the occurrence of family conflicts, communication skills training to prevent and address conflicts, and role play to practice the skills, etc.

Researchers will compare the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group to see if the family conflict intervention group is effective in promoting conflict resolution skills, reducing family conflicts, and enhancing family resilience.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Parents who have newly arrived in Hong Kong for less than seven years, and their children who are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3; or
2. New arrivals who have settled in Hong Kong for less than seven years and are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3, and their parents; and
3. Parents and children must live together; and
4. Parents and children must participate together

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Self-reported serious emotional or mental illness by parent or child, or
2. Children with special learning needs

Primary outcomes:
measure: Parent-child conflicts
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
measure: Parent-child conflict resolution
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
measure: The Chinese version of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
measure: Family Harmony Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
measure: Family Resilience Quetionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: China
facility: International Social Service Hong Kong Branch
Study officials:
affiliation: City University of Hong Kong
name: Xiaonan Nancy YU, Doctoral
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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