Trial reportThe journal of primary prevention2015
One-year follow-up of guided self-help for parents of preschool children with externalizing behavior.
Trial report in The journal of primary prevention, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parenting Cognition and Affective Outcomes Following Parent Management Training: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2016Pooled it
- Efficacy of guided and unguided web-assisted self-help for parents of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder: A three-arm randomized controlled trial.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Trial
- Long-term effectiveness of behavioural intervention in preschool children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Southeast China - a randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Efficacy of web-assisted self-help for parents of children with ADHD (WASH) - a three-arm randomized trial under field/routine care conditions in Germany.BMC psychiatry · 2020Trial
- 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
- Adaptive stepped care in preschool-age children with ADHD symptoms: a multicentre study including two consecutive randomised controlled trials (ESCApreschool).European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Virtual Delivery of Parent Coaching Interventions in Early Childhood Mental Health: A Scoping Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Negative parenting behaviour as a mediator of the effects of telephone-assisted self-help for parents of pharmacologically treated children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
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- Affective dysregulation in childhood - optimizing prevention and treatment: protocol of three randomized controlled trials in the ADOPT study.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- ESCAschool study: trial protocol of an adaptive treatment approach for school-age children with ADHD including two randomised trials.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
Self-help programs are an effective intervention for parents of children with externalizing behavior. A number of studies have shown that self-administered parent training has positive short-term effects on a child's behavior, but there is little research done on long-term outcomes. This paper reports results from a 1-year follow-up of a randomized controlled prevention trial of self-administered parent training with minimal therapist contact. In the initial prevention trial, we randomly assigned 48 preschool children with elevated levels of externalizing behavior to either a treatment group (TG) or a waitlist control group (WLC). The intervention consisted of written material and brief weekly telephone consultations. Thirty-six families (25 TG families, 11 WLC families) completed the self-help program. Twenty-five of these participated in a follow-up assessment 1 year after the intervention. There were no significant changes from post-test to follow-up on measures of child behavior (e.g., Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptom rating scales) and parental mental health, indicating that gains achieved post-intervention were maintained for at least 1 year. Moreover, the percentage of children with substantial behavior problems was reduced from pre-intervention to follow-up. These findings provide evidence that telephone-assisted self-help programs can be effective in the prevention of disruptive behavior problems.
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