Clinical trial NCT02494128: Early Group Based Parental Support Within Child Health Service - Group Leadership
Official title: Early Group Based Parental Support Within Child Health Service - Group Leadership
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Health
Keywords: Child health service
Family health
Nurse
Education
Parental group
Group leadership
Health promotion
Lead sponsor: Lund University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Region Skåne, Centre of Excellence for Child health care
First posted: 2015-07-10
Enrollment: 56
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: All parents in Sweden are offered group based parental support within Child Health Service (CHS) but only 40% participate. Nurses feel insecure in their group leadership and express a need for education in group leadership and group dynamics. Most CHC nurses do not have formal education or training in group leadership and the aim of this study was to evaluate a group based education program in group leadership for Child Health Care (CHC) nurses.

Detailed description: The study follows the guidelines for complex interventions (MRC) and was set up as a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated with questionnaires before and after the intervention. Focus group interviews 6 months after the intervention will be performed with the CHC nurses participating in intervention group. 3 groups with 25 CHC nurses in each group are to participate in a three day education in group leadership and group processes. The education aims to provide knowledge and awareness about group dynamics, group processes and group leadership and also aims towards increased self-awareness in the role as group leader.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* working within child health service in Skåne, Sweden
* managing at least 2 parental groups/year

Exclusion Criteria:

* no parental groups

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in experience of group leadership
timeFrame: 2 weeks before and 6 months after the education
measure: Relevance and experience of the education in group leadership
timeFrame: After completed intervention, intervention has an expected average duration of 12 weeks.
measure: Change in experience of group leadership and relevance and experience of the education in group leadership
timeFrame: 6 months after the education
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Child, family and reproductive health, University Lund
name: Inger Hallström, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Silva JAM, Mininel VA, Fernandes Agreli H, Peduzzi M, Harrison R, Xyrichis A. Collective leadership to improve professional practice, healthcare outcomes and staff well-being. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Oct 10;10(10):CD013850. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013850.pub2.
citation: Lefevre A, Lundqvist P, Drevenhorn E, Hallstrom I. "From resistance to challenge": child health service nurses experiences of how a course in group leadership affected their management of parental groups. BMC Nurs. 2017 Dec 2;16:73. doi: 10.1186/s12912-017-0267-6. eCollection 2017.