NCT06629974

The Effects of an Empowerment Program for Parents of Children With Autism

The Effects of an Empowerment Program for Parents of Children With Autism: A Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: Celal Bayar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an empowerment program that includes both parent training and motivational interviewing for parents of children with autism, supporting their competence in the care of their children.

Detailed description

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of an empowerment program for parents of children with autism to support their competence in caring for their children. This randomized controlled study was conducted in Manisa city center/Turkey, in 2022. A total of 69 parents (intervention: 34, control: 35) were included in this unblinded, two-group randomized controlled interventional study. A parent empowerment program, including four parental training sessions and two motivational interview sessions, were applied to the parents in the intervention group. The Parental Self-Efficacy Scale, Zarit Care Burden Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and Family Empowerment Scale were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the empowerment program.

Conditions

• Autism
• Parenting
• Motivational Interviewing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parental empowerment program	The empowerment program consisted of two parts: the empowerment training program for parents and motivational interviews. The empowerment training program was prepared to enable parents to carry out the care process more effectively in areas where parents have difficulties caring for their children with autism. Within the scope of the empowerment training program, parents were trained on the importance of play and communication, problems and management in the field of nutrition, sleep problems and management, safety and protection from accidents, and problems and management in the field of self-care. Ten days after the empowerment training program, two face-to-face motivational interviews were conducted with each participant in the intervention group. Each participant had a one-week break between the first and second motivational interviews. Each motivational interview session lasted approximately 25-30 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-30
• Primary completion: 2022-09-30
• Completion: 2022-12-23
• First posted: 2024-10-08
• Last updated: 2024-10-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)