NCT07397637

A Strength-based Parenting Program for Parents With Young Children From 3 to 6 Years Old

KeySteps@JC Phase Two Parenting Program

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (estimated)
• Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The parent education and family support component in phase 2 aims to strengthen protective factors of healthy child development and reduce risk factors of child abuse and neglect among disadvantaged families by providing community-based preventive interventions for children and their significant adults. Participants include about 600 parents from randomly assigned 100 preschools to the four groups (group 1: hub + school support; group 2: school support; group 3: hub support; group 4: delay group). The primary hypothesis is to examine the efficacy of the parenting programs for young children and their parents from K1 to K3. The programs are delivered by social workers at kindergartens or community hubs. The second aim/hypothesis of this project is to investigate the overall synergy impact of the community hub. The success of the parent-child interactive program offers a foundation for the hub to further develop community-based parent education and family support programs that aim at building parents/caregivers' competence in optimizing child development and competence in caregivers and professionals through networking multiple ecological systems, i.e., family, school, and hub or other organizations in the community.

Detailed description

Community hubs could be scaled up as a key setting where majority of intervention shall take place in to build capacity of significant others. For instance, there it will be an arena for the community-based parent education and family support programs. Community hubs act as a connector to bridge services. Due to disparity in resources and knowledge, parents in poverty may need extra rapport to bridge them to various supportive services available in the hub/community for the children's optimum development. This child and family centered approach can help foster community cohesion and raise family and children well-being. The parenting program is designed with an emphasis on strength-based parenting practice and both children and parents have parallel sessions on the same character strength and also joint sessions to optimize the impact. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected.

Conditions

• Parenting Intervention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The Strength-based parenting program	A parenting program is designed with strength-based parenting theory and practice. It has 6 sessions for parents and young children when the children are at 3 years old, 4 sessions for them at 4 years old and another 4 sessions for them at 5 years old.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2027-07-31
• Completion: 2027-07-31
• First posted: 2026-02-09
• Last updated: 2026-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong