Trial reportBMC medicine2013
Effectiveness of Primary Care Triple P on child psychosocial problems in preventive child healthcare: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04702191 (Promoting Healthy Families), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Promoting Healthy Families: A Canadian Evaluation of Two Evidence-based Parenting Programs
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of External Validity in Pediatric Integrated Primary Care Trials.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Clinical Effectiveness of Family Therapeutic Interventions Embedded in General Pediatric Primary Care Settings for Parental Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Parent Management Training-Oregon Model in Clinically Referred Children with Externalizing Behavior Problems in The Netherlands.Child psychiatry and human development · 2017Trial
- Dealing with Disobedience: An Evaluation of a Brief Parenting Intervention for Young Children Showing Noncompliant Behavior Problems.Child psychiatry and human development · 2016Trial
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- Enhancing Early Childhood Mental Health Primary Care Services: Evaluation of MA Project LAUNCH.Maternal and child health journal · 2018Article
- Dutch Norms for the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory: Comparisons with other Western Countries.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2018Article
- No evidence of whole population mental health impact of the Triple P parenting programme: findings from a routine dataset.BMC pediatrics · 2017Observational
- Primary Health Care: Potential Home for Family-Focused Preventive Interventions.American journal of preventive medicine · 2016Article
- Stepping Stones Triple P: the importance of putting the findings into context--a response to Tellegen and Sofronoff.BMC medicine · 2015Article
- Parenting Education to Improve Relational Health Through Pediatric Primary Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPsychosocial problems in children have adverse effects on the children, their families, and society, thus early intervention is important. Community pediatric services offer an ideal setting to detect problem behaviour in children and provide support to parents. The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a Primary Care Triple P (PCTP) program compared with care as usual (UC) for parents of children with mild psychosocial problems after an initial, evidence-based screening in routine community pediatric care.
methodsWe conducted a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial in community pediatric services in the Netherlands, enrolling parents of children with mild psychosocial problems. The population was identified by screening using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) with a cut-off point of 11 or higher (that is, a subclinical score). We compared PCTP with UC, and measured the effects immediately after treatment and after 6 and 12 months. PCTP comprised four individual counseling sessions with the parent of 20 to 30 minutes each. The primary outcome measures were the child psychosocial problems as measured by the SDQ and the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI).
resultsIn total, 81 families were recruited and randomized, and 67 provided post-intervention data. Both treatment groups improved after treatment, with the PCTP group improving only slightly more than the UC group on most measures. The maximum difference on the SDQ was 1.94 (95% CI = -0.30 to 4.19, P = 0.09) and 5.81 (95% CI = -3.37 to 14.99, P = 0.21) on the ECBI (n = 67). None of the differences between PCTP and UC was significant. In the subsidiary analyses, only one of the twenty outcomes (that is, SDQ conduct problems) was significant.
conclusionsPCTP did produce a reduction in psychosocial problems in children but had no statistically significant advantage over UC. In general, a few outcomes improved in both groups. Based on this admittedly underpowered study, we cannot conclude that PCTP is more effective than UC in preventive child healthcare.
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