NCT05467527Completed
PACT Programme for Parents of Children With SHCN
Effectiveness of Prosocial-orientated Acceptance and Commitment Training (PACT) Programme for Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs in Response to Outbreaks of Novel Infectious Disease: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This randomised controlled trial aims to determine the efficacy of a 12-week, smartphone-based Prosocial-orientated Acceptance and Commitment Training (PACT) programme plus age-appropriate positive parenting advice on the psychological flexibility, prosociality, parenting competence and family functioning with parents of children with special health care needs as well as the mental well-being of parent-child dyads over 12 months follow-up.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 196 (actual)
- First submitted
- 18 Jul 2022
- Start date
- 27 Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05467527
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 196
- From 27 Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2025
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Parents who have diagnoses of severe mental illness or developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities
Who the study is looking for
- Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents
- Living together with the child who is at preschool/school-age (3-8 years old)
- Caregivers who adopted the responsibility of taking care of the child,
- has daily access to their iPhone and Android smartphones.
- In addition, potential eligible parents who respond "yes" to any of the five validated screening questions in the Children with Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) Screener (see https://www.childhealthdata.org/docs/cshcn/technical-summary-of-cshcn-screener.pdf) will then be asked the associated follow-up questions to determine whether the child possesses physical, neurodevelopmental/emotional problem(s) that has lasted for at least 12 months. Only children with a positive response(s) to ≥ 1 item in each of the associated follow-up questions will be classified as children with SHCN.
Age in the registry: 21 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kowloon | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
| Department of Surgery, Hong Kong Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ngau Tau Kok | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
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