Clinical trial NCT02366000: An Intervention Study: Shaping a Healthier Child
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Intervention by Parents to Prevent Their Children From Experimenting With Health Risk Behavior: a Pilot Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parent-Child Relationship
Keywords: Parent-child communication
Health risk behaviors
Randomized controlled trial
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Tung Chung Integrated Services
First posted: 2015-02-19
Enrollment: 88
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to identify parent-children communication in relation to health risk behaviors (smoking, drinking and illegal drug taking) in adolescents, and to enhance better parental skills in preventing these behaviors in children.

Detailed description: Previous research found that parent-children communication is the best predictor of health risk behaviors among adolescents. However, longitudinal studies of parent-adolescent communication on the subject of health risk behavior such as alcohol, tobacco and other drug use (ATOD) remain relatively scarce, and none of this kind of work has been done among Chinese sample. Such information is urgently needed given the increasing trend of drug use among adolescents in Hong Kong, and the severe burden of morbidity and mortality related to ATOD.

The study aims to examine parent-children communication in relation to health risk behaviors and to explore the potential efficacy of a brief intervention which is designed to assist parents of primary school children to communicate with their children about issues in the prevention of health risk behaviors. The efficacy of the intervention will be compared with a waiting-list control group using a randomized controlled trial. There will then be two telephone follow-ups to reinforce learnt strategies and skills for home practice in between the two workshops. There will also be assessments post-intervention and at 1 year follow-up. Evaluation focus groups will also be conducted after the intervention program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parent of a child in primary five or six
* Cantonese-speaking
* Consent to their participation in the program and the inclusion of their children in the assessments

Exclusion Criteria:

* none

Primary outcomes:
measure: Readiness of parents to communicate with their children about preventing health risk behaviour
timeFrame: At 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Quality of parent-child communication
timeFrame: At 1 year
measure: Parents' attitudes towards positive parenting
timeFrame: At 1 year
measure: Quality of parent-child relationships
timeFrame: At 1 year
measure: Children's health risk behaviour
timeFrame: At 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: YW Mak, PHD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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