NCT05872737Completed
FAB Programme for Parents of Children With NDD
Facilitator-guided Acceptance and Commitment Bibliotherapy for Parents of Young Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a psychotherapy approach called Facilitator-guided Acceptance and Commitment Bibliotherapy (FAB) in improving the psychological health of parents of young children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and reducing the emotional and behavioral symptoms of NDD children. The study will involve 154 Cantonese-speaking parents of children aged 2-6 years diagnosed with NDD in Hong Kong. The study hopes to find that FAB can improve parent-child dyads' health outcomes by enhancing psychological flexibility, parental psychological health, and mindful parenting skills.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 154 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 May 2023
- Start date
- 5 Jun 2023
- Primary completion date
- 16 Apr 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05872737
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 154
- From 5 Jun 2023 to the primary completion date, 16 Apr 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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Criteria the registry did not label
- Parents of young children with NDD who fulfil the following criteria will be recruited:
- Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents,
- aged ≥ 21 years,
- have a child aged between two and six years old (preschool age) with a clinically documented diagnosis/suspected NDD diagnosis according to DSM-5 criteria (e.g., ASD, ADHD, developmental delay) and enrolled in the SWD subvented pre-school rehabilitation services offered by NGOs,
- caregivers who adopted the responsibility of taking care of the child, living together with the child, and
- have device(s) with internet access.
- Parents of young children with NDD will be excluded if:
- has been diagnosed with severe mental illness(es),
- cognitive/language/communication/visual/hearing impairment(s) or disorders that may present difficulties in comprehending the content of the intervention; and/or
- are currently receiving another psychosocial, psychoeducational, or parenting intervention(s).
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 Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Limited Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shatin | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
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