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The problem
Intervention: Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy delivered via videoconferencing by trained paraprofessionals (4-6 weekly sessions of 45-60 minutes) plus standard parenting advice (six e-learning modules on positive parenting plus a week-6 review session)
Who it was tested with: 254 parents (mean age 39 years; 92.9% mothers) of children with special health care needs in Hong Kong, recruited through six non-governmental organisation centres.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Eligible parents were randomised 1:1 to (i) Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy plus standard parenting advice or (ii) standard parenting advice alone" with outcomes measured at baseline, 6 weeks, and 30 weeks post-baseline. This randomised controlled trial design with comparison group and repeated measures provides experimental-level evidence for efficacy.
Predominantly female sample (92.9% mothers) limits generalisability to fathers. Study does not measure child-level outcomes or whether parental improvements translate to benefits for children. Only six months of follow-up data reported.
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