Parents' Engagement with their Child(ren)'s School Activities (PECSA)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Parents' Engagement with their Child(ren)'s School Activities (PECSA)
IRAS ID
264915
Contact name
Kim Holt
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
750, Northumbria University Ethics Submission Ref
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
This study is part of a PhD project which aims to develop an understanding of the role of school when children live with a parent who has a mental illness. As young people spend over 7800 hours at school over the course of their education, their time at school will inevitably have an impact on their lives. When children are living with parental mental illness, it is important to understand the context in which they experience school. The NSPCC website lists school as an important factor that can be affected by parental mental illness. Under their page 'parental mental health' it lists the potential negative impact of parental mental illness as including taking on a caring role, fewer opportunities to build friendships, disruption of education, educational underachievement and reduced life chances, as well as limited social interaction due to stigma and bullying and social isolation (NSPCC, 2018). This study will survey parents both with and without a mental illness about the time they spend on various activities related to their child(ren)'s schooling and education. These activities include such things as helping their child with their homework, doing the school run and responding to correspondence from school. Parents are also asked about how many children they have and the ages of these children, as well as their mental health status and whether or not they believe it is important for teachers to have an awareness of the pupils they teach that live with parental mental illness. This question links to another survey that is part of this PhD project which will ask the same question of teachers. The teacher survey does not require HRA or NHS REC approvals but will obtain ethical permissions from Northumbria University.
REC name
South Central - Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/SC/0032
Date of REC Opinion
31 Mar 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion