Peer group-based online intervention program to empower families raising children with disabilities: protocol for a feasibility study using non-randomized waitlist-controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Families raising children with disabilities assume risks to their health and lives. Therefore, it is necessary to support these families to improve family empowerment, which is the ability of these families to control their own lives and to promote the collaborative raising of children with disabilities. This is the first online intervention program focusing on the empowerment of families raising children with disabilities who live at home in Japan.

Method

The program consists of four online peer-based group sessions. Moreover, the families engage in several activities in stages wherein they discover their own issues, find measures to resolve them, and take action, while visualizing interfamily relationships, including social resources, and the status of their fam

SUBMITTER: Matsuzawa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628164 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature