Parents in Action: An Online Intervention Aimed at Parents' Well-being
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age19+
SponsorFederal University of Bahia
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an online intervention improves well-being in low-income parents with children aged between 3 and 6 years. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer \[is/are\]:
* Does life satisfaction improves after the online intervention? * Do stress, anxiety and depression symptoms diminish after the online intervention? Researchers will compare parents who took the online intervention with parents who did not to see if the intervention makes parents feel more satisfied with life and less stressed, anxious and depressed.
Participants will be interviewed about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention.
During the intervention, parents will watch videos, answer quizzes and do simple activities at home.
After the online intervention, parents will be interviewed again about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
parents of children between 3 and 6 years of age
parents must live with the child
child must attend public school
Disqualifiers
parents under 19 years of age
child with chronic disease or genetic syndromes
lack of access to the internet or a digital device
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Parapais em Ação
BehavioralParapais em Ação is a 10-week online program aimed at enhancing parents' well-being and mental health through psycho-educational videos, quizzes, practices of new skills. It was especially developed for Brazilian parents with children between 3 and 6 years of age.
Treatment groups
150 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsGroup A: Self-administeredExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: MixedExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group C: wait listNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
PANAS - Positive and Negative Affects Scale
Evaluates subjective well-being emotional dimensions. The PANAS is a self-report instrument composed of 10 items that assess positive affect and 10 items that assess negative affect. The items consist of adjectives and are answered on a five-point Likert scale corresponding to how much a person feels the emotions described by the adjectives: (1) not at all; (2) a little; (3) moderately; (4) quite a lot; and (5) extremely. The sum of the scores of all items relating to each construct provides the total score for positive and negative affect. Some examples of items are: a) distressed; b) excited; c) inspired; and d) irritated.
Time frame
From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.2
LSS - Life Satisfaction Scale
Assesses the cognitive dimension of subjective well-being. The instrument consists of five items that evaluate an individual's level of satisfaction with their living conditions. Each item is answered on a seven-point Likert scale ranging from (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly agree. The sum of the scores for all items provides the total life satisfaction score. Some examples of items are: a) my life is close to my ideal; and b) if I could live my life again, I wouldn't change almost anything.
Time frame
From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.Secondary outcomes
1
DASS-21 - Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale
It assesses symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. The instrument consists of 21 items, divided into three factors (Depression: 3, 5, 10, 13, 16, 17, 21; Anxiety: 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, 19, 20; and Stress: 1, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18). The items are answered using a four-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (not at all applicable) to 3 (applied very much or most of the time), and the sum of the scores allows classification in each of the factors as normal, mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe.
Time frame
From enrollment to one week after the end of the interventionOther outcomes
1
PAFAS - Parenting and Family Adjustment Scales
The PAFAS investigates parenting practices and parental and family adjustment, and is geared toward this purpose. It was developed with 40 items, containing a 28-item parenting scale covering two domains, including "parenting practices" (17 items) and "parent-child relationship" (11 items), and a 12-item family adjustment scale with three domains, composed of "parental emotional adjustment" (5 items), "positive family relationships" (4 items), and "parental teamwork" (3 items).
Time frame
From enrollment to one week after the end of the interventionSponsors and contacts
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Federal University of Bahia
Lead sponsor
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Collaborator
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