NCT05803252Completed
Videoconferencing-based Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Parents of SHCN Children
Videoconferencing-based Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs: A Non-randomised Controlled Feasibility Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of the proposed non-randomized waitlist-controlled design study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of using a Videoconferencing-based Individual Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) approach to enhance the mental well-being of parents of children with special healthcare needs (SHCN) over a three-month period after the intervention has taken place.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 104 (actual)
- First submitted
- 26 Mar 2023
- Start date
- 15 Mar 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05803252
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 104
- From 15 Mar 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 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 cognitive deficiency, severe mental illness and/or disability conditions that interfere with their ability to comprehend the programme's content
Other
- had substance/alcohol dependency problems,
- are pregnant;
- are less than six months postpartum
Who the study is looking for
- Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents aged ≥21 years;
- living together with the child who is at preschool/school-age (3-9 years old);
- adopt the responsibility of taking care of the child;
- access to reliable Internet access via either computers and/or smartphones and be committed to maintaining internet access for the duration of the intervention
- 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 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 | Unknown status |
| Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
| Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
| Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shatin | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
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