4Rs for a Better Family

• Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong (Other)
• Overall Status: Recruiting
• CT.gov ID: NCT05977114
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 400
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Anticipated Duration (Months): 9
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 44.4

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a family conflict intervention in Chinese New Arrival families in Hong Kong.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve parent-child conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?

• Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to improve parental conflict resolution skills compared to the control group?

• Is the family conflict intervention group more effective to enhance family resilience compared to the control group?

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups: the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group. For each group, parents will participate in 3 sessions independently, children will participate in 2 sessions independently, and parents and children will jointly participate in 1 session. Each session takes around 2 hours, and it takes 4 weeks to complete the full intervention. The family conflict intervention sessions include an introduction to the occurrence of family conflicts, communication skills training to prevent and address conflicts, and role play to practice the skills, etc.

Researchers will compare the family conflict intervention group and the handcraft-making group to see if the family conflict intervention group is effective in promoting conflict resolution skills, reducing family conflicts, and enhancing family resilience.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Family Relations	Behavioral: family conflict intervention group; Behavioral: handicraft-making group	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Anticipated Enrollment: 400 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Participant)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: 4Rs for a Better Family (Review, Refresh, Restore, Rebuild) 家好之四重計劃: 重溫、重整、重塑、重建
• Anticipated Study Start Date: Sep 1, 2023
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Apr 1, 2024
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Jun 1, 2024

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: 4Rs Group	Behavioral: family conflict intervention group; The family conflict preventive intervention includes the introduction to the occurrence of family conflicts, communication skills training, and role play to practice the skills.
Active Comparator: 4As Group	Behavioral: handicraft-making group; The group involves handicraft-making.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Parent-child conflicts (Yau & Smetana, 1996) [2 weeks]

   Parent-child conflicts are measured by the frequency and intensity of parent-child conflicts (Yau & Smetana, 1996).

2. Parent-child conflict resolution style (Sun, 2019) [2 weeks]

   Parent-child conflict resolution style will be measured by the Parent-child conflict resolution style scale (Sun, 2019).

3. The Chinese version of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II (ROC-II; Rahim, 1983; Chang & Lu, 2007) [2 weeks]

   Couple conflict and problem-solving will be measured by the Chinese version of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II (ROC-II; Rahim, 1983; Chang & Lu, 2007).

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Family Harmony Scale (Fabrizio et al., 2015) [2 weeks]

   Family Harmony will be measured by the Family Harmony Scale (Fabrizio et al., 2015).

2. Family Resilience Quetionnaire (Walsh, 2015) [2 weeks]

   Family Resilience will be measured by the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire (Walsh, 2015).

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Parents who have newly arrived in Hong Kong for less than seven years, and their children who are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3; or

2. New arrivals who have settled in Hong Kong for less than seven years and are studying in primary school grade 4 to secondary school form 3, and their parents; and

3. Parents and children must live together; and

4. Parents and children must participate together

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Self-reported serious emotional or mental illness by parent or child, or

2. Children with special learning needs

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	International Social Service Hong Kong Branch	Hong Kong		China

Sponsors and Collaborators

• City University of Hong Kong

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Xiaonan Nancy YU, Doctoral, City University of Hong Kong

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Dr. Nancy Xiaonan Yu, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05977114
• Other Study ID Numbers: 4Rs for a Better Family
• First Posted: Aug 4, 2023
• Last Update Posted: Aug 4, 2023
• Last Verified: Jul 1, 2023

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 4, 2023