Feasibility and acceptability study of a parent training intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Feasibility and acceptability of a group-based parent training programme for parents of children with tic disorders.
IRAS ID
119616
Contact name
Gemma Evans
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Manchester University
Research summary
The study involves two elements as part of a single study. The study aims to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of a parenting programme for parents of children with tic disorders. A parenting group has been run independently of this research, and parents will not be allocated to the group as part of this research.
The ethics application involves two aspects.
1) Two previous parent groups have been delivered and evaluated as part of a service evaluation. This evaluation involved obtaining standard questionnaire outcome measures from parents and asking parents structured questions about the group e.g.what aspects of the group they liked. Although this was service evaluation and did not require ethical approval we would like to use and publish this data as part of the current study. As we would like to report on demographic characteristics of participants and the analysis of the parents question responses may involve anonymised direct quotations, we would like to recontact participants in these group and obtain their consent to use the data obtained.
2) We would also like to conduct a Q-sort in order to investigate the acceptability and feasibility of parenting groups for parents of children with tic disorders. This will be completed with three groups of people: i) parents who have attended a previous parenting group ii) parents who have not completed a group but have a child with a tic disorder iii) NHS staff.REC name
North West - Greater Manchester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/NW/0213
Date of REC Opinion
6 Jun 2013
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion