Enhancing Mother-Child Ties and Psychosocial Wellness through Arts: A Mixed Methods Study on Dyadic Expressive arts-based Intervention for Children with Intellectual Disability and their Mothers

Professor Ho, Rainbow Tin Hung   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Dr Wong King Shui Phyllis   (Co-Investigator)

Dr Wan Ho Yin Adrian   (Co-Investigator)

Dr Lo Hay Ming Herman   (Co-Investigator)

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2022-01-01

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Enhancing Mother-Child Ties and Psychosocial Wellness through Arts: A Mixed Methods Study on Dyadic Expressive arts-based Intervention for Children with Intellectual Disability and their Mothers

Expressive Arts Therapy, Intellectual disability, Mother-child relationship, Psychosocial Well-being, Randomized controlled trial

Social Work,Others - relating to Social and Behavioural Sciences

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17620121

General Research Fund (GRF)

2021

On-going

1 The primary objective of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of a dyadic Expressive arts-based intervention with reference to a waitlist control group on the caregiving mother on the following domains: (i) Parenting stress; (ii) Caregiver burnout, and; (iii) Parent-child relationship; 2 The secondary objective of the proposed study also aims to investigate the effectiveness of the dyadic Expressive arts-based intervention on other psychosocial wellness of the caregiving mothers and children: (iv) Mother’s positive and negative affect (v) Children’s mood (as indicated by a visual analogue); (vi) Emotional expressions (as indicated by arts-based assessment); (vii) Behavioral and emotional problems (as perceived by the teachers or social workers); (viii) Mother’s quality of life; (ix) The participating mother's experiences in the intervention program (through qualitative inquiry), and; (x) The factors that may contribute to or affect the outcomes of the EXAT-based group intervention (quantitative analyses and qualitative interviews)