Early Group Based Parental Support Within Child Health Service - Group Leadership

March 9, 2016 updated by: Lund University
All parents in Sweden are offered group based parental support within Child Health Service (CHS) but only 40% participate. Nurses feel insecure in their group leadership and express a need for education in group leadership and group dynamics. Most CHC nurses do not have formal education or training in group leadership and the aim of this study was to evaluate a group based education program in group leadership for Child Health Care (CHC) nurses.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The study follows the guidelines for complex interventions (MRC) and was set up as a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated with questionnaires before and after the intervention. Focus group interviews 6 months after the intervention will be performed with the CHC nurses participating in intervention group. 3 groups with 25 CHC nurses in each group are to participate in a three day education in group leadership and group processes. The education aims to provide knowledge and awareness about group dynamics, group processes and group leadership and also aims towards increased self-awareness in the role as group leader.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

56

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • working within child health service in Skåne, Sweden
  • managing at least 2 parental groups/year

Exclusion Criteria:

  • no parental groups

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Intervention group
Education in group leadership
Other: Education
Education in group leadership
No Intervention: Control group
This group fills in the questionnaire. No intervention given.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in experience of group leadership
Time Frame: 2 weeks before and 6 months after the education
Change in experience of group leadership will be measured by a previously used questionnaire (Wallby, T (2008) parental support un Sweden today - What, when and how. Swedish National Institute of Public Health. (Föräldrastöd i Sverige idag - Vad när hur?) and Lefevre et al, 2013. Managing parental groups during early childhood: New challenges faced by Swedish child health nurses. Journal of child health care).The questionnaire consists of 38 questions concerning structure, content and extent of parental groups as well as questions about group leadership and background characteristics. Analysis will be performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and will be presented in a descriptive way
2 weeks before and 6 months after the education
Relevance and experience of the education in group leadership
Time Frame: After completed intervention, intervention has an expected average duration of 12 weeks.
A course evaluation form previously used in educations with primary health care nurses will be completed after the intervention is completed, before leaving site. It consists of seven questions about the content and relevance of the course.Four questions were arranged with a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 "poor" to 5 "excellent", and three questions were open-ended given the possibility to respond in free text.The numeric questions will be summarised and presented descriptive and the answers in text will be analysed by content analysis in a manifest way.
After completed intervention, intervention has an expected average duration of 12 weeks.
Change in experience of group leadership and relevance and experience of the education in group leadership
Time Frame: 6 months after the education
Change in experience of group leadership and relevance and experience of the education in group leadership will be explored in Focus group interviews with at least 3 focus groups. The interviews will be analysed by manifest and latent content analyses.
6 months after the education

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Lund University

Collaborators

Region Skåne, Centre of Excellence for Child health care

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Inger Hallström, Professor, Child, family and reproductive health, University Lund

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2014

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2016

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 4, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 9, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

July 10, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

March 10, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 9, 2016

Last Verified

March 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • H152014/397

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Yes

IPD Plan Description

Two articles will be published presenting the results.

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