Clinical trial NCT03328598: A Community-based Resilience Program of Only-child Loss Parents
Official title: Implementation of a Community-based Resilience Promotion Program to Only-child Loss Parents in China
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Resilience,Psychological
Bereavement
Happiness
Lead sponsor: Central South University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-11-01
Enrollment: 144
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 49
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This is a community-based participatory research aiming at helping the only-child loss parents to be happier and resilient from bereavement. It is a psycho-behavioral intervention research. There are two intervention programs in this study. One is derived from a foreign psychotherapy, developed by an American psychologist and has been testified the effectiveness in promoting happiness. Another one is developed by the researchers based on the previous cross-sectional survey and interviews with those bereaved parents. The researchers will apply randomized controlled trial to testify and compare those two intervention programs in a Chinese community.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria(made according to the official documents):

1. has given birth to only one child;
2. now has no living birth or adopted child;
3. the bereaved mother is older than 49 years in this family(medically maximum age for fertility in China).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. with serious mental disorders or physical illnesses;
2. are not able to complete the intervention;
3. are not able to finish questionnaire;
4. with chewing functional disorder to collect saliva dehydroepiandrosterone.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of psychological resilience
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change of depression
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of subjective well-being
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of social avoidance
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of sleeping quality
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of post-traumatic growth
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of health care behavior
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
measure: Change of concentration of dehydroepiandrosterone in saliva
timeFrame: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3 month after finishing intervention, 1 year after finishing intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Changsha
country: China
facility: Central South University
state: Hunan
city: Changsha
country: China
facility: Yangguang Tianshi Care Center
state: Hunan
Study officials:
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