Peer Influence clinical trials

Feasibility Study: Being a Parent - Helping Your Child With Fears and Worries

Emotional disorders are among the most common childhood mental health difficulties. The majority of adult emotional disorders begin before age 14 years. Most children and families across the population do not receive the proven evidence-based interventions available, particularly those from socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods and excluded, Black and Minoritised populations. Families from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Black and minoritised communities can often feel judged, mistrustful, and blamed for their children's behavioural difficulties making them reluctant to engage in parenting supportEven when available, research shows that over one-third of parents receiving traditional specialist delivered evidence-based parenting do not gain the expected outcomes. Undertaking a group-based parenting intervention to help parents understand and deal with their children's anxiety issues. The aim of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a new parent-led parenting intervention, being a Parent Helping your Child (BAPHYC) that is intended to improve childhood anxiety and to use the findings to inform the planning and conduct of a definitive randomised control trial. Being a Parent- Helping your Child (BAPHYC) has been developed from two well-established evidence-based parenting programmes. It is a parent-led, group format manualised parenting programme intended to improve childhood anxiety in children aged 5-12 years consisting of eight two-hourly weekly sessions peer-facilitated by two trained parent group leaders. The particants of BAPHYC participants are mothers, fathers and other carers who have principal parenting responsibility for a child with anxiety. The specific study objectives are to: 1. Establish initial evidence about reach and engagement, delivery, acceptability and impact of BAPHYC 2. Establish the feasibility of proposed recruitment pathways and measure completion 3. Acquire a fine grain understanding of parents' experiences of the BAPHYC intervention, research procedures and themes arising from BAPHYC implementation. 4. Assess participant recruitment, engagement, intervention and measure completion, and intervention acceptability rates against a priori feasibility parameters. 5. Obtain data that will be used in future trial recruitment and planning.