Integrated Bipolar Parenting Intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Clinical and cost effectiveness of an online integrated bipolar parenting intervention: A randomised controlled trial
IRAS ID
309190
Contact name
Steven Jones
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Lancaster University
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN15962574
Duration of Study in the UK
4 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Aim
We aim to assess whether providing parents with bipolar disorder (BD) with online parenting support leads to their children having fewer behaviour problems. We also want to know whether this helps parents feel less stressed and more confident about their parenting, and whether the intervention leads to parents having fewer mood or anxiety problems.
Background
Parents with BD find that the mood changes they experience make parenting challenging. Parents with BD want parenting support, but worry they might lose access to their children if they disclose this to their clinicians. Accessible, flexible, and confidential online parenting support is a way to provide this without
adding to worries parents already have. Children of parents with BD often have emotional and behavioural problems, which can lead to mental health problems, including BD, as they grow up. Parents need support to help their children flourish, which may also help parents themselves feel better. Our team created an online intervention to support parents with BD which was acceptable to parents and helped with child emotional and behaviour problems and with parenting. The current project aims to fully assess whether an updated version of this intervention is effective
and represents value for money.
Design and method
Parents with BD with a child aged 4-10 years old in the UK will be invited to participate through NHS mental health trusts, mental health charities and social media. 342 parents who agree to take part will be either offered the online intervention, or usual care. Whether the parent receives the intervention or not is decided randomly. Parents will fill in questionnaires about their child, their parenting, their mood and anxiety when they start the study and at 24 and 48 weeks. Up to thirty parents will be interviewed after taking part to learn their views.REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/WM/0200
Date of REC Opinion
31 Oct 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion