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ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2022

Peer group-based online intervention program to empower families raising children with disabilities: protocol for a feasibility study using non-randomized waitlist-controlled trial.

Akemi Matsuzawa, Rie Wakimizu, Iori Sato, Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaori Nishigaki, Seigo Suzuki, Naoko Iwata

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Akemi MatsuzawaDepartment of Pediatric Nursing, Graduate School of Health Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Rie WakimizuDepartment of Child Health Care Nursing, Division of Health Innovation and Nursing, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. riewaki@md.tsukuba.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-6028
Iori SatoDepartment of Family Nursing, School of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshi FujiokaDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kaori NishigakiDepartment of Child Health Nursing, Graduate School of Nursing Sciences, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan.
Seigo SuzukiDepartment of Pediatric Nursing, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Naoko IwataUniversity of Tsukuba Hospital, Medical Liaison and Patient Support Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 18H03093
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Abstract

backgroundFamilies raising children with disabilities assume risks to their health and lives. Therefore, it is necessary to support these families to improve family empowerment, which is the ability of these families to control their own lives and to promote the collaborative raising of children with disabilities. This is the first online intervention program focusing on the empowerment of families raising children with disabilities who live at home in Japan.

methodThe program consists of four online peer-based group sessions. Moreover, the families engage in several activities in stages wherein they discover their own issues, find measures to resolve them, and take action, while visualizing interfamily relationships, including social resources, and the status of their family life, with facilitators and other peer members. This study is a non-randomized, waitlist-controlled trial. It compares the results of the intervention group (early group) and the waitlist-controlled group (delayed group). The participants are allocated to the early or delayed group in the order of their applications. The main outcome is family empowerment. Other outcomes are the caregiver burden, self-reported capability to use social resources, self-compassion, and the quality of life (QOL) of primary caregivers. The timeline of the online outcome evaluation is as follows: the initial evaluation (Time 1 [T1]) is conducted before the start of the first early group program, and post-intervention evaluation (Time 2 [T2]) is conducted immediately (within 1 week) after the early group completes all four sessions (4 weeks) of the program. Follow-up evaluation (Time 3 [T3]) is conducted 4 weeks after the post-intervention evaluation. This timing is the same in the delayed group, but the delayed group will attend the program after a 4-week waiting period, compared to the early group. DISCUSSION: The intention is to evaluate whether the provision of the program developed in this study and the evaluation test design are feasible and to verify the efficacy of this program.

trial registrationThe UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000044172), registration date: May 19, 2021.

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Caregiver burdenDisabled childrenFamilyFamily empowermentHealth care serviceNon-randomized waitlist-controlled trialOnline programPeer groupQOL

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PMCPMC9628164

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