Clinical trial · Interventional
A Resilience Promotion Program for Parents of Children With Cancer
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Cancer is a leading cause of death for children. With the increasing incidence of childhood cancer, the mental health problems emerge in those parents struggle with their children's life-threatened disease. Caring for children with cancer is described as life-changing experience and overwhelming stress for parents. Many studies have been conducted to screen the psychological distress for these parents and found a considerable percentage of them suffering from depressive symptoms. Poorer quality of life was also found in parents of children with cancer when compared to parents of children without cancer. Additionally, parental distress interacted with children's emotions and could have detrimental effects on children's both physical and mental health. Therefore, it is important to take measures improving the mental health for parents of children with cancer. Although current various psychological interventions illustrated small to moderate improvements of mental health for parents of children with cancer, the total effect base on a systematic review was not statistically significant. The purpose of these interventions was predominantly to treat negative mental health problems such as depression and no recognized effective psychological interventions were available for parents of children with cancer until now. Along with the paradigm shift from problem-oriented approach to nurturing strengths in the post-modern period, instead of exclusively treating mental health problems, researchers payed more attention to positive therapy such as resilience promotion program. Resilience usually refers to the ability to adapt adverse conditions and maintain positive status. Resilience studies are mounting since the flourishing of positive psychology movement and meaningful results were gained from corresponding intervention program concentrating on resilience promotion in adolescent education, handling chronic disease and recovery of breast cancer. However, there is a lack of targeted resilience promotion program for parents of children with cancer. The results of our pilot study showed low levels of resilience in parents of children with cancer and strong associations among parental resilience, quality of life and depression. It indicates that the increase in resilience can benefit for the mental health of parents. Therefore, a resilience promotion program will be conducted to examine efficacy for parents of children with cancer.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parents of Children With Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resilience promotion program | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Resilience promotion program
- description
- Subjects in the intervention group will participate in an eight-session resilience promotion program.
- interventionNames
- Other: Resilience promotion program
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Treatment as usual
- description
- Treatment as usual for subjects in the control group.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Change in levels of resilience from baseline to 6-month follow-up between intervention and control group
- timeFrame
- 6-month follow-up
- description
- The primary outcome measure is the resilience of subjects at 6-month follow-up when compare to baseline. The Connor-Davison resilience scale will be used to assess participants' resilience. The total score ranges from 0-100 and higher score reflecting higher levels of resilience.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * having a child (0-19 years old) with cancer diagnosis. * Chinese resident and able to read Chinese and speak Mandarin. Exclusion Criteria: * having physical impairment or cognitive and learning problems identified from family history of medical records. * attending other researches.
References
Publications (2)
- DERIVEDLuo Y, Li HCW, Cheung AT, Ho LLK, Xia W, Zhang J. Evaluating the experiences of parents of children with cancer engaging in a mobile device-based resilience training programme: a qualitative study. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Jul;30(7):6205-6214. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07066-7. Epub 2022 Apr 20. PMID 35441899
- DERIVEDLuo Y, Xia W, Cheung AT, Ho LLK, Zhang J, Xie J, Xiao P, Li HCW. Effectiveness of a Mobile Device-Based Resilience Training Program in Reducing Depressive Symptoms and Enhancing Resilience and Quality of Life in Parents of Children With Cancer: Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2021 Nov 29;23(11):e27639. doi: 10.2196/27639. PMID 34847060