A Self-compassion Intervention for Parents of Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

All participants will be asked to recall a recent parenting event they feel ashamed of and type it into a text box provided. Participants in the SCI group will then be instructed to reflect on their recalled parenting event and prompted to think about and write about the event in a self-compassionate manner. The prompt is designed to induce on all of the three key elements of self-compassion described by Neff (2003a): self-kindness; common humanity; and mindfulness. The same instructions will be provided for follow-up period.

All participants will be asked to recall a recent parenting event they feel ashamed of and type it into a text box provided. Participants in the control group will then be instructed to make notes about factual information of the event (e.g. time of day, who was there, the weather, etc.). During the two-week follow-up period, participants in the control group will not take part in any intervention as part of the trial.