Enhancing the Parent-Child Relationship: A Hong Kong Community-Based Randomized Controlled Trial

Adolescence is a critical risk period for negative academic and behavioral outcomes, but a strong parent-child relationship can be a powerful protective factor. Our previous pilot of an academic-community agency collaborative randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated initial evidence of benefit...

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Published in:Journal of family psychology 2014-02, Vol.28 (1), p.42-53
Main Authors: Fabrizio, Cecilia S., Stewart, Sunita M., Ip, Alison K. Y., Lam, Tai Hing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Behavior
Behavior Therapy - methods
Child
Child development
Chinese Cultural Groups
Chinese people
Cross Cultural Differences
Female
Hong Kong
Human
Humans
Intergenerational relationships
Intervention
Male
Parent Child Relations
Parent-Child relationships
Parenting
Parenting - psychology
Parenting Skills
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - education
Personal Satisfaction
Prevention
Protective Factors
Randomized controlled trials
Relationship Satisfaction
Residence Characteristics
Risk assessment
Teenagers
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Adolescence is a critical risk period for negative academic and behavioral outcomes, but a strong parent-child relationship can be a powerful protective factor. Our previous pilot of an academic-community agency collaborative randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated initial evidence of benefit for a parenting intervention with preadolescents in Hong Kong. The present RCT assessed the effect of brief training in positive discipline parenting skills on parental satisfaction with the parent-child relationship. A community sample of 461 Hong Kong Chinese parents of children aged 10-13 years were randomized to (a) the Harmony@Home intervention, (b) an attention control, or (c) a third active intervention that shared the control group. Participants were followed for 12 months and multiple methods of assessment were used. Compared with the control group, the Harmony@Home group reported an increase in the primary outcome of satisfaction with the parent-child relationship at 3 months' postintervention. Although results are mixed, this study demonstrates how a culturally adaptive community intervention can improve the parental behaviors that serve as protective factors against negative academic and behavioral outcomes for Chinese adolescents.
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/a0035275