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Development and Initial Trial of Brief Interventions to Help Parents of Stigmatized Youth Reduce Distress and Strengthen Attachment

制定和初步试验简短干预措施，帮助受侮辱青少年的父母减轻痛苦并加强依恋

基本信息

批准号：
10741051
负责人：
LEA R DOUGHERTY
金额：
$ 46.37万
依托单位：
YALE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-09-07 至 2025-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10741051
关键词：
Address Adult Affect Age Anxiety Behavior Binding Buffers Bypass Child Climacteric Communities Conflict (Psychology)Data Development Disclosure Distress Education Emotions Empathy Enrollment Face Family Family psychotherapy Future Geographic Locations Health Individual Instinct Intervention Intervention Studies Interview Mediator Mental Health Parent-Child Relations Parents Persons Population Psyche structure Randomized Reaction Recording of previous events Reporting Research Running Science Services Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Social Processes Source Southeastern United States Stigmatization Stress Stressful Event Support Groups Surveys Testing Time Training United States National Institutes of Health Writing Youth arm behavioral health brief intervention child depression community engagement effectiveness/implementation trial efficacy testing experience expressive writing feasibility testing follow-up gender minority youth health disparity high risk population implementation facilitators improved interest online intervention post intervention prevent primary outcome psychologic randomized trial recruit scale up secondary outcome sexual minority social expectations social stigma stressor theories young adult

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Parental support represents the strongest predictor of sexual and gender minority youth's (SGMY) mental health. However, over half of parents react to their SGMY's disclosure with rejection. Even relatively accepting parents can experience discomfort, while SGMY often report lingering unmet needs from their parents into adulthood. Few interventions exist to help parents support their SGMY child and none has been tested in a randomized trial with efficacy for decreasing parental rejection and increasing support of their SGMY. This proposal will develop and test the efficacy of two theory-based interventions that aim to address this gap. These interventions respectively address two mechanisms shown to underlie parental rejection of SGMY – parents' unresolved negative emotions toward their SGMY and lack of empathy toward their SGMY. The first intervention – expressive writing (EW) – reduces negative emotions by helping people make sense of stressful events. In our adapted EW, we will ask non-accepting parents to write about the stressful impact that their child's SGM identity has on them across three 20-min sessions. The second intervention – attachment-based writing (ABW) – will be based on the only known intervention (called attachment-based family therapy) that builds empathy among parents of SGMY. However, the parent-focused tasks of attachment-based family therapy currently require 2-3 sessions with a trained therapist, preventing broad access. We will thus create a writing-based version of this therapy in a parallel format to EW (i.e., 3 20-min writing sessions). This adaptation will ask parents to engage with the core components of attachment-based family therapy in writing (i.e., writing about one's impact on their child, one's own attachment needs, and their child's needs). Across three aims, we will develop and test the preliminary efficacy of these two brief interventions for non-accepting parents in the Southeast US – a region with the highest anti-SGM stigma and highest SGMY mental health needs in the US. Aim 1 will engage community stakeholders, non-accepting parents, and SGMY in the Southeast to inform the writing prompts and look-and-feel of the online platform. Aim 2 will test the preliminary efficacy of EW and ABW. We will randomize 129 non-accepting parents to EW, ABW, or control. Parents will report primary outcomes (i.e., rejecting and supporting behaviors), target mediators (i.e., negative emotions, empathy), and secondary outcomes (e.g., parent and youth depression/anxiety) at baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up. We will also explore the feasibility of asking parents to enroll their child so that we can study the interventions' impact on SGMY themselves. Aim 3 will determine intervention acceptability and implementation facilitators in parent support organizations in the Southeast US. Results to mental will identify mechanisms contributing parental rejection and develop scalable approaches to reduce these mechanisms to shrink the substantial health disparities affecting SGMY. If efficacious, these interventions can be scaled up through online platforms capable of bypassing barriers to parental support of SGMY across high-stigma regions.

项目总结