NCT02986022

A Psychological Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Mainland New Immigrants to Hong Kong

Completed NA Last updated 18 July 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Resilience in Resilience in 241 participants. Completed in 31 March 2018.

Timeline

7 December 2016

Primary endpoint
8 February 2018

31 March 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	City University of Hong Kong
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	241
Start date	7 December 2016
Primary completion	8 February 2018
Estimated completion	31 March 2018
Sites	1 location across China

Drugs / interventions tested

• Resilience
• Information

Conditions studied

• Resilience — all drugs for Resilience →

Sponsor

City University of Hong Kong

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Resilience. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background:

Resilience is important for successful adaptation. The investigators' resilience intervention was effective in enhancing resilience, emotional functioning, and adaptation in Mainland immigrants. In the present proposal, the investigators will work with the International Social Service to scale up application of this intervention in immigrants, and develop the training infrastructure to ensure that the evidence-based intervention can be sustained despite turnover of interventionists.

Objectives:

1. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the resilience intervention with the resilience + information intervention (a compound module) among 200 new immigrants,
2. The resilience intervention will enhance participants' resilience by 5%, and decrease their depressive symptoms by 20% and adaptation difficulties by 10% after the completion of the intervention,
3. The resilience + information intervention will have higher increases in resilience and more decreases in depressive symptoms and adaptation difficulties compared to the resilience intervention, and
4. To establish a sustaining mechanism which ensures that these two interventions can continue to be used in routine services.

Project design:

Well-trained social workers will deliver the intervention. Participants will complete programme evaluation. A train-the-trainer workshop and training materials will be prepared to transfer knowledge to social workers who are future trainers.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.