STUDY PROTOCOL article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Autism
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1411518
This article is part of the Research TopicEmpowering Early Career Researchers in Psychiatry: Advancing Autism ResearchView all 6 articles
A Nurse-led Parental Self-efficacy Promotion Program in Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Quasi-experimental Protocol
Provisionally accepted
Yushen Dai1E Zou2Yan Ji2Xiuxian Chen2Miaoying Chen2Kaiyun Chen2Baoqin Huang2Min Xu2Qiuling Guo2Meiling Cai2Tao Deng1Yao Wei1Shaofei Liu1
Lifeng Zhang1*- 1School of Nursing, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- 2Children Developmental and Behavioral Center, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Purpose: Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often lack the knowledge and confidence to implement early intervention. This study will evaluate the effects of a parental self-efficacy promotion program on parenting self-efficacy, parenting stress, intervention compliance, and family quality of life for parents of children with ASD. Design and methods: This two-arm, pretest, post-test quasi-experimental study recruits 80 parents in one tertiary hospital in China. The control group receives routine care, and the intervention group receives a 1-month self-efficacy promotion program on the basis of usual care. This program consists of one face-to-face session and three online sessions, supplemented by a written pamphlet. Content includes goal setting, experience sharing, verbal encouragement, and mobilizing of positive emotions. Conclusion: This study will empower the nurses as leaders to promote the well-being Self-efficacy promotion program in parents of children with ASD of parents of children with ASD and improve the early family intervention for their child by providing a parental self-efficacy promotion program. Practice implications: Parents need support to implement intervention in the family for their child with ASD. A nurse-led program targeted at improving parental self-efficacy is worth considering.
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders, self-efficacy, Parents, Nurses, Health Education
Received: 03 Apr 2024; Accepted: 02 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Dai, Zou, Ji, Chen, Chen, Chen, Huang, Xu, Guo, Cai, Deng, Wei, Liu and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Lifeng Zhang, School of Nursing, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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