Observational studyBMC pediatrics2017
No evidence of whole population mental health impact of the Triple P parenting programme: findings from a routine dataset.
Observational study in BMC pediatrics, 2017. 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 15 papers.
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Promoting Healthy Families: A Canadian Evaluation of Two Evidence-based Parenting Programs
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care: A Randomized Trial of a Skill-Based Parent Training with Parent Mentor Adaptation.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2020Trial
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- Scaling Out the SafeCare Parenting Program: Comparing Task-Shifted and Standard Implementation in a Refugee Community.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Trajectories towards poor mental health: Can general practice contribute to prevention of bad outcomes for young children?The European journal of general practice · 2025Article
- Reducing family and school-based violence at scale: a large-scale pre-post study of a parenting programme delivered to families with adolescent girls in Tanzania.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- The Case for Assessing and Reporting on Facilitator Fidelity: Introducing the Fidelity of Implementation in Parenting Programs Guideline.Global implementation research and applications · 2024Article
- Mapping Geographic Trends in Early Childhood Social, Emotional, and Behavioural Difficulties in Glasgow: 2010-2017.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Case for Targeted Parenting Interventions with Reference to Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting: Qualitative Evidence from Three Studies of Marginalised Mothers' and Fathers' Participation in Parenting Programmes.Child care in practice : Northern Ireland journal of multi-disciplinary child care practice · 2022Article
- A mixed methods evaluation of the large-scale implementation of a school- and community-based parenting program to reduce violence against children in Tanzania: a study protocol.Implementation science communications · 2021Article
- Designing Evidence-Based Preventive Interventions That Reach More People, Faster, and with More Impact in Global Contexts.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2021Article
- Specific domains of early parenting, their heritability and differential association with adolescent behavioural and emotional disorders and academic achievement.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Evaluating the dissemination and scale-up of two evidence-based parenting interventions to reduce violence against children: study protocol.Implementation science communications · 2020Article
- Comparing apples and pears: misleading conclusions about the population mental health impact of a parenting programme, a commentary on Marryat, Thompson and Wilson (2017).BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Population-Based System of Parenting Support to Reduce the Prevalence of Child Social, Emotional, and Behavioural Problems: Difference-In-Differences Study.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Article
- Parenting and child mental health.London journal of primary care · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Triple P parenting programme has been reported to improve child mental health at population level, but it consumes substantial resources. Previous published work has suggested improvements in whole population scores in the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Total Difficulties Scale among samples of children following introduction of the programme. This paper aims to explore whether Triple P had an impact on child mental health problems using routinely collected data over 6 years before and during the implementation of the multilevel Triple P programme in Glasgow City.
methodsAnnual monitoring of teacher-rated SDQ Total Difficulties Scale scores among children in their pre-school year in Glasgow City.
resultsNo significant or consistent changes in SDQ Total Difficulties Scale scores were seen during or after the implementation of Triple P programme on a whole population level.
conclusionTriple P in Glasgow City appears to have had no impact on early child mental health problems over a 6 year period. The Triple P programme, implemented on a whole population level, is unlikely to produce measurable benefits in terms of child mental health.
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