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Last Modification Date:
2024-10-26 @ 3:36 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT06522243
Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Last Update Posted:
None
First Post:
2024-07-15
Brief Title:
Mindful Parenting for Parents With SEN Adolescents
Sponsor:
None
Organization:
None
Study Overview
Official Title:
Effectiveness of Mindfulness Program for Parents of Children With SEN
Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date:
2024-07
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
No
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online eight-week mindful parenting program for parents of adolescents with special needs and its impact on parents wellbeing and behaviors of their adolescents with SENs
Researchers will randomize the participants into the immediate intervention group to start the intervention soon after recruitment and the waitlist control group to start the intervention after the immediate intervention group so as to compare the changes between the two groups
The participants will join the 8-week mindful parenting intervention and one follow-up session They will be asked to fill in the questionnaires at baseline after the 8-week intervention and at the follow-up sessions Training sessions will be audio-taped and transcripted The conversation during the zoom classes and participants sharing on their subjective experience related to mindfulness practices will be analysed
Researchers will randomize the participants into the immediate intervention group to start the intervention soon after recruitment and the waitlist control group to start the intervention after the immediate intervention group so as to compare the changes between the two groups
The participants will join the 8-week mindful parenting intervention and one follow-up session They will be asked to fill in the questionnaires at baseline after the 8-week intervention and at the follow-up sessions Training sessions will be audio-taped and transcripted The conversation during the zoom classes and participants sharing on their subjective experience related to mindfulness practices will be analysed
Detailed Description:
Being a parent is inherently a demanding and stressful job and raising children with SEN may pose additional stressors to parents Parents of SEN children have higher parenting stress compared to those of typically developed children in facing daily challenges with their childrens learning and development which may lead to a higher risk of child maltreatment Adolescence and emerging adulthood are a transition period which may impose increased stress and challenges on both young people and their parents As a result parents of young people with SENs require more support in both parenting skills and their own psychological wellbeing
Parents not only provide care for their children but also create an everyday environment under which their children are raised Improvements in parenting skills and parents mental health could lead to positive outcomes for child and youth mental wellbeing while malfunctioning parenting may also impose an aversive effect on childrens development For instance a critical and over-involvement of parental-child interaction ie high expressed emotion high EE in the family was found to be a robust predictor of relapse in different psychiatric illnesses
Parenting is by nature a highly challenging and complex job and raising a child with mental illness could be even more stressful and strain parents experience It was reported that the severity of childrens emotional and behavioral disturbances was closely related to parents stress levels On the other hand parenting stress is an essential factor contributing to parenting effectiveness When parents experience a high level of stress their parenting effectiveness may decrease Hence reducing parents stress levels would not only benefit parents themselves but also enhance effective parenting so as to benefit the wellbeing of their children with mental illness
Mindful parenting Mindful parenting has been defined as the ability to pay attention to your children and parenting in an intentional non-judgmental and moment-to-moment awareness Mindful parenting intervention does not directly teach parenting skills like other parenting training programs Being mindful in everyday parenting is to perceive their children with an unbiased and open attitude providing more sensible and responsive reactions to the children instead of reacting automatically based on past experience of parenting or being parented By decentering from the current thoughts or affects it enables parents to observe their internal experiences objectively without overidentifying with them This in turn strengthens their capacity to endure the intense emotions and allow them to be more fully present with their child Mindful parenting was also found to be negatively correlated with parental stress yet positively associated with the levels of adopting authoritative parenting style Furthermore one of the features of the mindful parenting program is to practice non-judgmental awareness when interacting with children instead of automatically reacting to childrens behaviours It is thus speculated that mindful parenting practice could also promote less high EE interactions between parents and adolescents which has been sparsely studied in the existing literature The current pilot study may thus provide a possible mechanism in explaining the effectiveness of mindful parenting in improving the wellbeing of both parents and their children with SENs
Mindful parenting had been applied in parenting for children with special needs childbirth and parenting and parenting for children with mental illness The results of various mindful parenting programs with a minimum of 6-8 weekly group sessions showed some evidence of improvements for parenting stress parents psychopathology and their childrens mental health symptoms However the study sample had mainly focused on parents whose children were in their early or middle childhood
The current study thus aims to recruit a more diverse sample of adolescents with different types of SENs The data and experience gained from the current pilot study would also shed light on a clearer picture of whether a nine-session mindful parenting program would benefit both parents and their adolescent children with SENs
A mixed methods design with qualitative journaling and quantitative experimental design could leverage the benefits of both methods The data collected from participants journal writing would elucidate the benefits challenges and personal growth through mindfulness practices from a subjective experiential perspective It will also provide valuable insights for designing a larger-scale study to understand the underlying mechanism of mindful parenting on wellbeing of both parents and their children with SEN
Aims and Hypotheses to be Tested
The current study aims to i to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness training in enhancing the wellbeing of both parents and behaviors of their adolescents with SENs ii to assess the feasibility and acceptability of adopting a nine-session Mindful Parenting program among parents of adolescents with SENs iii to formulate useful suggestions and guidelines on mindfulness training for parents of adolescents with SENs
Parents not only provide care for their children but also create an everyday environment under which their children are raised Improvements in parenting skills and parents mental health could lead to positive outcomes for child and youth mental wellbeing while malfunctioning parenting may also impose an aversive effect on childrens development For instance a critical and over-involvement of parental-child interaction ie high expressed emotion high EE in the family was found to be a robust predictor of relapse in different psychiatric illnesses
Parenting is by nature a highly challenging and complex job and raising a child with mental illness could be even more stressful and strain parents experience It was reported that the severity of childrens emotional and behavioral disturbances was closely related to parents stress levels On the other hand parenting stress is an essential factor contributing to parenting effectiveness When parents experience a high level of stress their parenting effectiveness may decrease Hence reducing parents stress levels would not only benefit parents themselves but also enhance effective parenting so as to benefit the wellbeing of their children with mental illness
Mindful parenting Mindful parenting has been defined as the ability to pay attention to your children and parenting in an intentional non-judgmental and moment-to-moment awareness Mindful parenting intervention does not directly teach parenting skills like other parenting training programs Being mindful in everyday parenting is to perceive their children with an unbiased and open attitude providing more sensible and responsive reactions to the children instead of reacting automatically based on past experience of parenting or being parented By decentering from the current thoughts or affects it enables parents to observe their internal experiences objectively without overidentifying with them This in turn strengthens their capacity to endure the intense emotions and allow them to be more fully present with their child Mindful parenting was also found to be negatively correlated with parental stress yet positively associated with the levels of adopting authoritative parenting style Furthermore one of the features of the mindful parenting program is to practice non-judgmental awareness when interacting with children instead of automatically reacting to childrens behaviours It is thus speculated that mindful parenting practice could also promote less high EE interactions between parents and adolescents which has been sparsely studied in the existing literature The current pilot study may thus provide a possible mechanism in explaining the effectiveness of mindful parenting in improving the wellbeing of both parents and their children with SENs
Mindful parenting had been applied in parenting for children with special needs childbirth and parenting and parenting for children with mental illness The results of various mindful parenting programs with a minimum of 6-8 weekly group sessions showed some evidence of improvements for parenting stress parents psychopathology and their childrens mental health symptoms However the study sample had mainly focused on parents whose children were in their early or middle childhood
The current study thus aims to recruit a more diverse sample of adolescents with different types of SENs The data and experience gained from the current pilot study would also shed light on a clearer picture of whether a nine-session mindful parenting program would benefit both parents and their adolescent children with SENs
A mixed methods design with qualitative journaling and quantitative experimental design could leverage the benefits of both methods The data collected from participants journal writing would elucidate the benefits challenges and personal growth through mindfulness practices from a subjective experiential perspective It will also provide valuable insights for designing a larger-scale study to understand the underlying mechanism of mindful parenting on wellbeing of both parents and their children with SEN
Aims and Hypotheses to be Tested
The current study aims to i to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness training in enhancing the wellbeing of both parents and behaviors of their adolescents with SENs ii to assess the feasibility and acceptability of adopting a nine-session Mindful Parenting program among parents of adolescents with SENs iii to formulate useful suggestions and guidelines on mindfulness training for parents of adolescents with SENs
Study Oversight
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Is a US Export?:
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