Trial reportFamily practice2013
Randomized trial of distance-based treatment for young children with discipline problems seen in primary health care.
Trial report in Family practice, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of External Validity in Pediatric Integrated Primary Care Trials.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Behavioral and Nondirective Guided Self-Help for Parents of Children with Externalizing Behavior: Mediating Mechanisms in a Head-To-Head Comparison.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Trial
- Randomized trial of distance-based treatment for young children with discipline problems seen in primary health care.Family practice · 2013Trial
- Virtual Delivery of Parent Coaching Interventions in Early Childhood Mental Health: A Scoping Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Differences in healthcare costs in youths with conduct disorders in rural vs. urban regions: an analysis of German health insurance data.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Evaluation of an Internet-Based Behavioral Intervention to Improve Psychosocial Health Outcomes in Children With Insomnia (Better Nights, Better Days): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Modeling the Decision of Mental Health Providers to Implement Evidence-Based Children's Mental Health Services: A Discrete Choice Conjoint Experiment.Administration and policy in mental health · 2018Article
- Implementation of Off-Site Integrated Care for Children: A Scoping Review.Harvard review of psychiatryArticle
- Parenting Education to Improve Relational Health Through Pediatric Primary Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Authors and funding
11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveMany parents of preschool-age children have concerns about how to discipline their child but few receive help. We examined the effects of a brief treatment along with usual care, compared with receiving usual care alone. Patients. Parents (N = 178) with concerns about their 2- to 5-year olds' discipline were recruited when they visited their family physician at 1 of 24 practices.
methodsAfter completing mailed baseline measures, parents were randomly assigned to receive usual care or the Parenting Matters intervention along with usual care. Parenting Matters combined a self-help booklet with two calls from a telephone coach during a 6-week treatment period. Follow-up assessments were completed at 7 weeks post-randomization, and 3 and 6 months later.
resultsBehaviour problems (Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory) decreased significantly more in the Parenting Matters condition compared with Usual Care alone, based on a significant time by treatment group effect in intent-to-treat, growth curve analyses (P = 0.033). The Parenting Matters group also demonstrated greater and more rapid improvement than in usual care alone in terms of overall psychopathology (Child Behaviour Checklist, P = 0.02), but there were no group differences in parenting. The overall magnitude of group differences was small (d = 0.15 or less).
conclusionA brief early intervention combining a self-help booklet and telephone coaching is an effective way to treat mild behaviour problems among young children. This minimal-contact approach addresses the need for interventions in primary health care settings and may be a useful component in step-care models of mental health.
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