Clinical trial NCT05048277: Single Session Consultation for Parents
Official title: Single Session Consultation for Parents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parents
Stress
Keywords: Single Session Consultation
SSC
Parents
Parental Stress
Parenting
Stress
Stress Disorders
Children
School-Aged Children
Parental Mental Health
Lead sponsor: New York University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-09-17
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Single-Session Consultation (SSC) is a rapidly provided, low-intensity, goal-directed counseling service used for treatment of diverse mental health problems. Research on SSC suggests that, for some clients, a single session of counseling (60 minutes) may help reduce clinical distress.

Despite its benefits, SSC has yet to be evaluated as an alternative for parents (18+) of school-age children (5-12 years old) in the United States with elevated stress levels.

The current research aims to evaluate SSC's feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy as an intervention for this population.

First, perceived acceptability (i.e., parents' participation and successful completion, reschedules, and/or cancellations), usefulness, and client satisfaction will be examined. The investigators will also evaluate whether mechanisms of change (e.g, hope, agency), parental (e.g, stress, mental health), and child (e.g, behavior) outcomes, are improved following the SSC.

The investigators expect SSC to be acceptable, for clients to find SSC to be useful, to be satisfied, and experience an increase in hope and agency after the SSC and hypothesize a reduction in stress levels and improvement in mental health among parents. However, the investigators believe behavior outcomes for the child will remain unchanged.

The investigators will recruit parents via online advertisement on social media. Potential participants will complete a screener through Qualtrics to determine eligibility, which includes location in the United States, age (18+), child's age (5-12 years old), preferred language, child's legal guardianship, technology access, and stress levels. Once eligible, participants will provide consent and make an appointment for their SSC.

The 60-minutes-session will be conducted using HIPAA complaint NYU Zoom with Study Consultants. Parents will complete assessments of parental stress, parental mental health, and child behavior to assess mechanisms (i.e., hope, agency) outcomes and measures of usefulness and satisfaction prior and post the SSC, and another 2-week follow-up questionnaire to monitor progress.

Sessions will be recorded for supervision and treatment fidelity purposes. Upon completion, parents will receive an Action Plan, a written record of the discussion, recommendations, and resources.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult parents (18+ years old) who are legal guardians of their school-age children (5 to 12 years old)
2. Must have elevated stress levels based on validated measures obtained through parent self-report
3. Parent must reside in the United States
4. Must be English dominant
5. Can access video-based Zoom conference

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Parent has significant cognitive delays that prohibit involvement in SSC
2. Parent expresses significant personal mental health challenges/child abuse during SSC that warrant immediate discontinuation from SSC.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Parenting Stress [Fragile Families Aggravation in Parenting Scale (FFAPS)] from Screener to Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Screener, Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Short Form (PANAS-SF) from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in Family Empowerment Scale (family subscale) from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in Readiness for Change Scale from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in Beck Hopelessness Scale from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in State Hope Scale from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Change in Behavior and Feelings Questionnaire from Baseline to Within 2 Hours of the Intervention to 2-Week Follow Up
timeFrame: Baseline, Within 2 Hours of Intervention, and 2-Week Follow Up
measure: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
timeFrame: Screener
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