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Trial reportTranslational behavioral medicine2016

A randomized preference trial to inform personalization of a parent training program implemented in community mental health clinics.

Yaliu He, Abigail Gewirtz, Susanne Lee, Nicole Morrell, Gerald August

Abstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Translational behavioral medicine, 2016. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Does Giving Parents Their Choice of Interventions for Child Behavior Problems Improve Child Outcomes?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019
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  4. Effects of treatment, choice, and preference on health-related quality-of-life outcomes in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018
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  5. Supporting the Needs of Urban, Head Start Parents to Engage in Group Preventative Parent Training Programs (PPTPs).Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025
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  11. Moving Toward a Precision-Based, Personalized Framework for Prevention Science: Introduction to the Special Issue.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yaliu HeDepartment of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, USA.
Abigail GewirtzDepartment of Family Social Science and Institute of Translational Research in Children's Mental Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA. agewirtz@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7376-2952
Susanne LeePsychiatry Department, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Nicole MorrellPsychiatry Department, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Gerald AugustDepartment of Family Social Science and Institute of Translational Research in Children's Mental Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.

Funding

Research Methods CoreP20MH085987 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI AUGUST, GERALD J · 2010 to 2014
$4.3M
NIMH NIH HHS P20 MH 079906NIMH NIH HHS P20 MH085987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Incorporating participant preferences into intervention decision-making may optimize health outcomes by improving participant engagement. We describe the rationale for a preference-based approach to the personalization of community-based interventions. Compensating for the limitations of traditional randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and partially randomized preference trials (PRPTs), we employed a doubly randomized preference trial in the present study. Families (N = 129) presenting to community mental health clinics for child conduct problems were randomized to choice or no-choice conditions. Within each condition, parents were again randomized, or offered choices between home- and clinic-based, individual and group versions of a parent training program or services-as-usual. Participants were assessed at baseline, and treatment retention data were gathered. Families assigned to the choice condition were significantly less likely to drop out of treatment than those in the no-choice condition. In the choice condition, in-home treatment was the preferred modality, and across conditions, families were less likely to be retained in group and clinic modalities. Research on preferences may boost participant engagement and inform shared decision-making.

Indexed as

Community Health CentersAdultChildFemaleHumansMaleMental DisordersParentsPatient DropoutsPatient PreferencePilot ProjectsParent trainingPersonalizationPreferenceTreatment retention

Identifiers

PMID27012255
PMCPMC4807199

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