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NCT Number: NCT06858059

A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Efficacy of the Lighthouse Parenting Programme in Addressing Parenting Difficulties in China

The study will be conducted in three phases: assessments, group intervention and individual intervention. All participants will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour. The test group (Group A) will be assessed once at recruitment and after the last individual session. The control group (Group B) will undergo the same intervention as the test group after the test group completes the intervention and posttest, and will be assessed one additional time for pre-intervention status.

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Key information

Conditions

Parenting Intervention

Age range

Up to 70 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Zhujiang Hospital

Guangzhou, China

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Parents with children aged 2-14 years who exhibited parenting that were identified as being problematic (Parenting Stress Indicator PSI ≥ 86 (critical high level)).

Exclusion criteria

  • Parents in the family with either parent and child who have a serious medical condition (e.g., cancer, heart disease, etc.), an acute psychotic episode, or difficulty engaging in group interventions may be excluded from participation.

Treatment and study plan

Psychological Intervention

Other

All participants of the lighthouse parenting programme will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour.

Primary outcomes

  1. Parenting stress

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks

    The Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (PSI/SF; Abidin, 1986) is employed to assess parenting stress.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Parental mentalising

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks

    The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten, Mayes, Nijssens, & Fonagy, 2017) is employed to assess parental mentalizing.

  2. Quality of the parent-child relationship

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks

    The quality of the parent-child relationship is evaluated using the Multiperspective Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire (M-PCR; Müller & Achtergarde, 2018).

  3. parenting efficacy

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks

    The Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (Woolgar et al., 2023) is employed to assess parenting efficacy.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Zhujiang Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Efficacy of the Lighthouse Parenting Effectiveness Enhancement Programme in Addressing Parenting Difficulties

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2026
First posted
Mar 5, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 7, 2026

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