NCT04556331

Sowing the Seeds of Confidence: Brief Online Group Parenting Programme for Anxious Parents of 1-3 Year Olds

Brief Online Group Parenting Programme for Anxious Parents of 1-3 Year Olds With the Aim of Reducing Transmission of Anxiety Through Generations: A Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: King's College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To pilot a brief group early intervention aimed at reducing or preventing the intergenerational transmission of anxiety, with parents whose child is between 12 and 47 months. To explore feasibility and acceptability of such an intervention with this population.

Detailed description

All participants will attend two group sessions of 'psychoeducation' (psychologically informed information about the topic of transmitting anxiety) and cognitive-behavioural strategies aimed at reducing the transmission of anxiety from parent to young child. The two sessions will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams, last 2 hours each and will run one week apart. Outcome and acceptability measures will be collected before, immediately after, and 6 weeks after the intervention. Feasibility data (e.g. drop-out rate) will be recorded.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Parenting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parenting programme (cognitive behavioural) aimed at reducing generational transmission of anxiety	'Psychoeducation' (psychologically informed information about the topic of transmitting anxiety) and cognitive-behavioural strategies aimed at reducing the transmission of anxiety from parent to young child. These will be shared with a group of maximum 8 remotely delivered, in a didactic format.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-25
• Primary completion: 2021-01-20
• Completion: 2021-01-31
• First posted: 2020-09-21
• Last updated: 2021-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom