NCT03328598

A Community-based Resilience Program of Only-child Loss Parents

Implementation of a Community-based Resilience Promotion Program to Only-child Loss Parents in China

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: Central South University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a community-based participatory research aiming at helping the only-child loss parents to be happier and resilient from bereavement. It is a psycho-behavioral intervention research. There are two intervention programs in this study. One is derived from a foreign psychotherapy, developed by an American psychologist and has been testified the effectiveness in promoting happiness. Another one is developed by the researchers based on the previous cross-sectional survey and interviews with those bereaved parents. The researchers will apply randomized controlled trial to testify and compare those two intervention programs in a Chinese community.

Conditions

• Resilience,Psychological
• Bereavement
• Happiness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Positive psychology therapy group	This program is developed from a foreign group program based on positive psychology. The positive psychology therapy lasts 8 weeks, and has a group intervention in each week. The themes of each week are start-up, time gift, positive mind, three good things, a thankful heart, life train, active service, end-up.
BEHAVIORAL	Resilience promotion therapy group	The other one is developed from research team's previous research results. The resilience promotion therapy lasts 8 weeks, and also has a group intervention in each week. The themes of each week are start-up, mutual help, trust in yourself, thanksgiving feedback, care for yourself, emotional management, end-up.
OTHER	Controlled routine activity	Conventional community activities is viewed as an active comparator for controlled group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-24
• Completion: 2019-01-31
• First posted: 2017-11-01
• Last updated: 2023-08-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China