Trial reportDevelopment and psychopathology2009
Improvements in maternal depression as a mediator of intervention effects on early childhood problem behavior.
Trial report in Development and psychopathology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02800603 ("Making the Race Fair for Young Children at Risk"), which is not on this map. Cited by 160 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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"Making the Race Fair for Young Children at Risk": A Targeted Prevention Approach to Reducing Child Emotional and Behaviour Problems
Who cites it
160 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 292 citations in OpenAlex.
- Maternal depression and child psychopathology: a meta-analytic review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2011Pooled it
- The Family Check-Up and Youth Suicide: Assessing Indirect Effects of Improving Self-Regulation and Reducing Depression in Promoting Long-Term Resilience.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Trial
- Targeted Child Mental Health Prevention and Parenting Support Within a Canadian Context: A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the U.S.-Developed Family Check-Up®.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Maternal Psychological Risk Moderates the Impacts of Attachment-Based Intervention on Mother-Toddler Mutuality and Toddler Behavior Problems: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Impacts of a tiered intervention on child internalizing and externalizing behavior in the context of maternal depression.Development and psychopathology · 2025Trial
- The role of early intervention for adolescent mental health and polydrug use: Cascading mediation through childhood growth in the general psychopathology (p) factor.Developmental psychology · 2023Trial
- Evaluating the Efficacy of the Family Check-Up Online to Improve Parent Mental Health and Family Functioning in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Trial
- Genotype-environment correlation by intervention effects underlying middle childhood peer rejection and associations with adolescent marijuana use.Development and psychopathology · 2022Trial
- The long-term indirect effect of the early Family Check-Up intervention on adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms via inhibitory control.Development and psychopathology · 2020Trial
- Child Birth Order as a Moderator of Intervention Effectiveness for the Early Childhood Version of the Family Check-Up.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Trajectories and Predictors of Children's Early-Starting Conduct Problems: Child, Family, Genetic, and Intervention Effects.Development and psychopathology · 2019Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of Family Connects: Effects on child emergency medical care from birth to 24 months.Development and psychopathology · 2019Trial
- Family-based prevention of adolescents' co-occurring internalizing/externalizing problems through early childhood parent factors.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Trial
- A randomized clinical trial of interventions for improving well-being in custodial grandfamilies.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Trial
- Predictors of Participation in the Family Check-Up Program: a Randomized Trial of Yearly Services from Age 2 to 10 Years.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- The Family Check Up and Adolescent Depression: An Examination of Treatment Responders and Non-Responders.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- A Toddler Parenting Intervention in Primary Care for Caregivers With Depression Symptoms.The journal of primary prevention · 2017Trial
- Developmental cascade effects of interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed mothers: Longitudinal associations with toddler attachment, temperament, and maternal parenting efficacy.Development and psychopathology · 2017Trial
- Treatment Effects of a Primary Care Intervention on Parenting Behaviors: Sometimes It's Relative.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Trial
- Mom-net: Evaluation of an internet-facilitated cognitive behavioral intervention for low-income depressed mothers.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Trial
100 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Maternal depression has been consistently linked to the development of child problem behavior, particularly in early childhood, but few studies have examined whether reductions in maternal depression serve as a mediator in relation to changes associated with a family-based intervention. The current study addressed this issue with a sample of 731 families receiving services from a national food supplement and nutrition program. Families with toddlers between ages 2 and 3 were screened and then randomized to a brief family intervention, the Family Check-Up, which included linked interventions that were tailored and adapted to the families needs. Follow-up intervention services were provided at age 3 and follow-up of child outcomes occurred at ages 3 and 4. Latent growth models revealed intervention effects for early externalizing and internalizing problems from 2 to 4, and reductions in maternal depression from ages 2 to 3. In addition, reductions in maternal depression mediated improvements in both child externalizing and internalizing problem behavior after accounting for the potential mediating effects of improvements in positive parenting. The results are discussed with respect to targeting maternal depression in future intervention studies aimed at improving early child problem behavior.
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