The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an online intervention improves well-being in low-income parents with children aged between 3 and 6 years. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer \[is/are\]: * Does life satisfaction improves after the online intervention? * Do stress, anxiety and depression symptoms diminish after the online intervention? Researchers will compare parents who took the online intervention with parents who did not to see if the intervention makes parents feel more satisfied with life and less stressed, anxious and depressed. Participants will be interviewed about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention. During the intervention, parents will watch videos, answer quizzes and do simple activities at home. After the online intervention, parents will be interviewed again about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use before taking the online intervention.
Researchers will compare parents who took the online intervention with parents who did not to see if the intervention makes parents feel more satisfied with life and less stressed, anxious and depressed. The comparison will be based on tests that measure the life satisfaction, positive and negative emotions, stress, anxiety and depression according to parents report. Parents will respond to these tests during an online interview before starting the online intervention. During the interview they will also report on their parenting practices and their children's development and screen use. The interview lasts between 45 and 60 minutes. During the 10 weeks of intervention, parents will watch videos, answer quizzes and do simple activities at home. They will spend between 30 and 45 minutes doing the online and home activities each week. Fifty percent of the parents who will undergo the intervention will also have a weekly video call with a psychologist to clarify doubts and solve difficulties found in the online activities. After the online intervention, parents will be interviewed again about their own well-being, mental health and parenting practices and about their children's behavior and screen use. The same interview procedures held before the intervention will be repeated after the intervention, when parents who underwent the online program will also respond a questionnaire about their satisfaction with the intervention. For parents who did not undergo the intervention, the last interview will happen eleven weeks after the first interview. After the last interview, parents who did not undergo the intervention before, will be able to take the intervention if they want to do so.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
150
Parapais em Ação is a 10-week online program aimed at enhancing parents' well-being and mental health through psycho-educational videos, quizzes, practices of new skills. It was especially developed for Brazilian parents with children between 3 and 6 years of age.
CMEI União Bica do Rio
Salvador, Estado de Bahia, Brazil
RECRUITINGPANAS - Positive and Negative Affects Scale
Evaluates subjective well-being emotional dimensions. The PANAS is a self-report instrument composed of 10 items that assess positive affect and 10 items that assess negative affect. The items consist of adjectives and are answered on a five-point Likert scale corresponding to how much a person feels the emotions described by the adjectives: (1) not at all; (2) a little; (3) moderately; (4) quite a lot; and (5) extremely. The sum of the scores of all items relating to each construct provides the total score for positive and negative affect. Some examples of items are: a) distressed; b) excited; c) inspired; and d) irritated.
Time frame: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.
LSS - Life Satisfaction Scale
Assesses the cognitive dimension of subjective well-being. The instrument consists of five items that evaluate an individual's level of satisfaction with their living conditions. Each item is answered on a seven-point Likert scale ranging from (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly agree. The sum of the scores for all items provides the total life satisfaction score. Some examples of items are: a) my life is close to my ideal; and b) if I could live my life again, I wouldn't change almost anything.
Time frame: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention.
DASS-21 - Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale
It assesses symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. The instrument consists of 21 items, divided into three factors (Depression: 3, 5, 10, 13, 16, 17, 21; Anxiety: 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, 19, 20; and Stress: 1, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18). The items are answered using a four-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (not at all applicable) to 3 (applied very much or most of the time), and the sum of the scores allows classification in each of the factors as normal, mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe.
Time frame: From enrollment to one week after the end of the intervention
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