A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial to Improve Social Problem-Solving Skills of Kunjing Children without Sufficient Parental Care.

Social problem-solving skills (SPS) are essential to child development, especially for kunjing children without sufficient parental care (KCw/oSPC). This study aimed to design and implement a group-based pilot intervention programme to improve KCw/oSPC's SPS and assessed its effectiveness. This pilo...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Social Work Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 456 - 475
Autores principales: Wang, Miao, Zhou, Yue
Formato: research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2024
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          Wang, Miao
          Zhou, Yue
        affil: Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University , Tianjin 300350, China
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          Social Problems In Infancy and Childhood
          Problem Solving In Infancy and Childhood
          Social Skills Training In Infancy and Childhood
          Psychosocial Intervention
          Program Implementation
          Parental Role
          Outcomes of Education Evaluation
          Human
          Funding Source
          Child
          Adolescence
          China
          Pilot Studies
          Randomized Controlled Trials
          Students, High School
          Random Assignment
          Descriptive Statistics
          Pretest-Posttest Design
          Mann-Whitney U Test
          Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
          Social Work Service
          Social Work Practice
          Group Processes
          Strategic Planning
          Coefficient alpha
          T-Tests
          Data Analysis Software
          Comparative Studies
          Social Workers
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: Social problem-solving skills (SPS) are essential to child development, especially for kunjing children without sufficient parental care (KCw/oSPC). This study aimed to design and implement a group-based pilot intervention programme to improve KCw/oSPC's SPS and assessed its effectiveness. This pilot intervention was a randomised controlled trial, fifty-seven KCw/oSPC at seventh grade (aged twelve to thirteen years) were recruited and randomly assigned into experimental (n  = 24) and waiting (n  = 33) groups. All participants in the experimental group received SPS training, whilst the waiting group did not receive any services at the research stage. Both pre- and post-test data about participants' SPS from both groups were analysed with Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, respectively. Results indicated that KCw/oSPC's SPS in the experimental group improved significantly, with large effect size (Cohen's d  =   1.15). This pilot study, although with limitations, contributed to informing future social work intervention studies and practice to promote KCw/oSPC's SPS in Mainland China and worldwide.
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