NCT05584059Recruiting
Pai.ACT Programme for Parents of Children With Special Healthcare Needs - Phase I
Pai.ACT: A Deep-Learning Mental Health Advisory System Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Parents of Children With Special Healthcare Needs (Phase I)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to determine the feasibility, acceptability and potential efficacy of an individual, video-conferencing based Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) on the mental well-being of parents of children with Special Health Care Needs(SHCN). The study also aims to explore the experience of parents after participating in the individual-based FACT sessions offered by the trained FACT interventionists.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 150 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 14 Oct 2022
- Start date
- 1 Dec 2022
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05584059
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 150
- From 1 Dec 2022 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2025
- 5 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 with severe mental illness or developmental disabilities which impaired their ability to comprehend the content of the programme will be excluded.
Who the study is looking for
- Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents
- living together with the child who is at preschool/school-age (3-9 years old)
- adopt 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 (5)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Christian Service Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Hong Kong School Nurse Association Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
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