Keeping Parents Involved: Predicting Attrition in a Self-Directed, Online Program for Childhood Conduct Problems (original) (raw)

Evaluation of the Parenting Plus Programme

In a comparative group outcome study involving 40 parents of children with disruptive behaviour disorders, it was found that compared with controls, those who participated in the Parenting Plus Programme reported greater gains in the attainment of personal parenting goals. Also, there were trends for participants in the Parenting Plus Programme to report fewer child behaviour problems on the externalizing scale of the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) and the total problems, conduct problems and hyperactivity scales of the Strengths and DIfficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). In addition, compared with controls, parents who participated in the Programme reported significant improvements in parent-child interaction on the Parenting Stress Index. Gains on the Parent Goals Scales, the total problem scale of the SDQ and the externalizing scale of the CBCL were maintained at 5.5 months follow-up. With respect to clinical significance, compared with controls, twice as many parents who participated in the Parenting Plus Programme reported that their children had moved from the clinical to the non-clinical range on the total problem scale of the SDQ and the externalizing scale of the CBCL by the end of the programme. Compared with non-improvers, improvers had less severe behavioural and psychosomatic difficulties and more severe emotional problems at intake and their parents were more distressed and had less familial social support.

A pilot effectiveness study of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme for parents of children with behaviour problems: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2015

The Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme is a home-based, health visitor-delivered parenting support programme for parents of children with identified behaviour problems. This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the EPaS 2014 programme compared to a waiting-list treatment as usual control group. This is a pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial. Sixty health visitors will each be asked to identify two families that have a child scoring above the clinical cut-off for behaviour problems using the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI). Families recruited to the trial will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio into an intervention or waiting-list control group. Randomisation will occur within health visitor to ensure that each health visitor has one intervention family and one control family. The primary outcome is change in child behaviour problems as measured by the parent-reported ECBI. Secondary outcomes include other measures of child behaviour, parent behav...