Clinical trial NCT05955898: The Development and Evaluation of a Single Session Intervention for Parent Distress Tolerance
Official title: The Development and Evaluation of a Single Session Intervention for Parent Distress Tolerance
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parents
Mental Health Issue
Distress, Emotional
Lead sponsor: University of Miami
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-07-21
Enrollment: 56
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to study different ways to help parents cope with strong emotions. The study team will be looking at how two different treatments help parents learn to manage strong emotions. These treatments are one session and are completed online, without a therapist, like an online training or class.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Live in the United States.
* Parent of a child aged 6-17 years old who has received at least one counseling or mental health treatment session from a provider in the last 6 months will be eligible to participate.
* Parent is not currently receiving psychotherapy or counseling for a mental health concern (or received such in the past six months).
* Parent reported poor distress tolerance (DT). Poor DT will be defined as a score of less than 54 on the Distress Tolerance Scale.
* Due to language limitations of the primary researcher, parents will be eligible if they comfortably speak and read in English.
* Parents must have a mobile device (e.g., laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) or desktop computer and internet access sufficient for the delivery of the study assessments and intervention online.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Failure to meet any of the inclusion criteria.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Distress Tolerance Scale scores
timeFrame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) scores
timeFrame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up
measure: Change in Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS) scores
timeFrame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up
measure: Change in Parental Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (PAAQ) scores
timeFrame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Coral Gables
country: United States
facility: University of Miami
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Miami
name: Jill Ehrenreich-May, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Miami
name: Elizabeth R Halliday, MS
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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