NCT04637971

Coaching Intervention in Women At-risk for Common Mental Disorders

Coaching Intervention to Improve Mental Well-being of Community Women Who Are At-risk for Common Mental Disorders in Hong Kong: a Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to provide coaching intervention for prevention of developing common mental disorders to 60 at-risk women in Hong Kong.

Detailed description

Participants will be recruited through online screening tool. Eligible subjects with informed consent provided will be randomly assigned to coaching group or self-help tips plus telephone support group. To test the effectiveness of the coaching intervention, data collection will be conducted on demographics, symptoms and psychosocial aspects at baseline, immediately, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention. A self-reported brief questionnaire will be administered at every intervention as well.

Conditions

• Common Mental Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Coaching	Participants will receive 4 sessions of group coaching intervention within 6 weeks. Each session is in a group of 3-4 women and lasts for approximately 1.5 hours. The sessions will be conducted by experienced social workers.
OTHER	Self-help tips plus telephone support	Participants will receive 4 self-help tips sent via SMS and 4 phone call from a social worker in 6-week of time. During the telephone call, the social worker will advise the client to make use of the tips we sent to her.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-01
• Completion: 2022-02-01
• First posted: 2020-11-20
• Last updated: 2022-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong