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The past literature supports the use of digital media as a medium to provide ongoing interventions for families caring for children with difficulties and the opportunity to intervene directly through caregivers, and to combine the advantages of hybrid physical and online interventions, applying different modes of teaching and interacting, satisfying the need for high frequency supervision and feedback for habit building, responding to difficulties and adjusting settings appropriately and immediately, in addition to providing timely assistance, by In addition to providing timely assistance, by changing parents' behavioral patterns and skills, it can increase the caregiver's level of implementation, thus establishing subtle changes and learning in daily life, promoting the quality of interaction and relationship building, and therefore providing intervention. The study aims to use the new specific model of behavior modification-"Atomic Habit" as the basis for behavior change intervention, combining parental self-identification and children's play participation to establish good thinking and behavior patterns of caregivers, to increase self-identification and reduce stress, and to improve relationships and reduce conflict.


Clinical Trial Description

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had reduced access to early care, education, and life participation for families of children with developmental delay, resulting in deterioration of parental mental health, child deterioration, and parental unemployment. The literature supports that face-to-face or online caregiver-mediated interventions could promote child development, self-efficacy and reduce parental stress. The clinical practice of early care center in our hospital lacked a multi-disciplinary integrated relationship facilitation program for caregivers of children with developmental delay. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects and examine of the behavior modification by hybrid in Stress, self-efficacy, relationships and conflict for caregivers Method: Caregivers of development delay children were recruited and randomly assigned to "Hybrid group"(n=20), and " Self-learning group" (n=19). After 8-weeks training (Online sessions and individual consultation sessions), the performance was assessed by a blinded assessor. The outcome measures included Intervention Fidelity, Parenting Sense of Confidence, Parenting Stress Index: Short form, The Conflict Tactics Scales: Parent Version, habit schedule record, satisfaction questionnaire. Date analyzing: Collected data will be analyzed with Mann-Whinney U test, the Wilcoxon Signed Ranked Test, and Spearman correlation analysis by SPSS version 20.0, and alpha level was set at 0.05. ;


Study Design


NCT number NCT05827952
Study type Interventional
Source Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
Contact FenLing Kuo, Master
Phone +88622490088
Email 08655@s.tmu.edu.tw
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date April 1, 2024
Completion date March 31, 2025