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NCT Number: NCT05955898

The Development and Evaluation of a Single Session Intervention for Parent Distress Tolerance

The purpose of this study is to study different ways to help parents cope with strong emotions. The study team will be looking at how two different treatments help parents learn to manage strong emotions. These treatments are one session and are completed online, without a therapist, like an online training or class.

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Key information

Conditions

Parents Distress, Emotional Mental Health Issue

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Live in the United States.
  • Parent of a child aged 6-17 years old who has received at least one counseling or mental health treatment session from a provider in the last 6 months will be eligible to participate.
  • Parent is not currently receiving psychotherapy or counseling for a mental health concern (or received such in the past six months).
  • Parent reported poor distress tolerance (DT). Poor DT will be defined as a score of less than 54 on the Distress Tolerance Scale.
  • Due to language limitations of the primary researcher, parents will be eligible if they comfortably speak and read in English.
  • Parents must have a mobile device (e.g., laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) or desktop computer and internet access sufficient for the delivery of the study assessments and intervention online.

Exclusion criteria

  • Failure to meet any of the inclusion criteria.

Treatment and study plan

Parents THRIVE

Behavioral

Parents THRIVE is a digital, one-time intervention that will give parents strategies to cope with their emotions and improve their distress tolerance. Parents will learn how to increase their emotion awareness to better tolerate strong emotions, such as anxiety, sadness, anger, and frustration.

Sharing Feelings Project

Behavioral

Sharing Feelings Project is a digital, one-time program that focuses on the benefit of sharing emotions with others and will be used as a control. Parents will read about how sharing their emotions can be helpful and anecdotes from others' experiences sharing emotions.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Distress Tolerance Scale scores

    Time frame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up

    The Distress Tolerance Scale is a 15-item self-report measure that measures the perceived capacity to tolerate distress from a multidimensional framework, including tolerance, appraisal, absorption, and regulation. Items are rated on a 1-5 Likert scale and then summed. Scores range from 15-75. Higher total scores indicate greater ability to tolerate distress.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) scores

    Time frame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up

    Measures overall anxiety severity and anxiety-related impairment due to any anxiety disorder. Total scores are computed by summing scores from all 5 items. Total score ranges from 0 to 20, with higher scores indicating higher severity and impairment of anxiety symptoms. Reduction in OASIS scores therefore indicates better outcome.

  2. Change in Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS) scores

    Time frame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up

    Measures severity and frequency of depressive symptoms and functional deficits in pleasurable activities due to the depressive symptomatology. The ODSIS consists of 5 self-report items rated from 0 to 4. Total score ranges from 0 to 20 with higher scores indicating greater depression-related severity and impairment.

  3. Change in Parental Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (PAAQ) scores

    Time frame: Baseline, up to three-week follow-up

    A 19-item measure of parent experiential avoidance, or parental actions intended to control the form and frequency of their child's emotional experiences. Items are rated on a 7-point scale, with higher possible scores ranging from 19 to 133. Higher scores indicate less parental experiential avoidance and less effort to control child emotional experiences.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Miami

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Jul 21, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 11, 2025

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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