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SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2018

Enhancing Initial Parental Engagement in Interventions for Parents of Young Children: A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies.

Carolina Gonzalez, Alina Morawska, Divna M Haslam

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Synthesis in Clinical child and family psychology review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05003518 (ParentText User Engagement and Effectiveness Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05003518 naterminatednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

ParentText User Engagement and Effectiveness Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of OxfordRan2022 to 2022Enrolled1,400ConditionsEngagement, Positive Parenting, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner ViolenceArmsParentText
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. A Population-Level, Randomized Effectiveness Trial of Recruitment Strategies for Parenting Programs in Elementary Schools.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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  15. Using a Predictive Risk Model to Prioritize Families for Prevention Services: The Hello Baby Program in Allegheny County, PA.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carolina GonzalezParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia. c.gonzalez@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-8157-2056
Alina MorawskaParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.
Divna M HaslamParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low rates of participation in parenting interventions may undermine their effectiveness. Although a wide range of strategies to engage parents in interventions are described in the literature, little is known about which engagement strategies are most effective in enhancing parental engagement. This systematic review explores effective engagement strategies to encourage initial parental engagement (recruitment, enrolment, and first attendance) in parenting interventions for parents of children aged 2-8 years old. This review was conducted based on the guidelines of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Higgins and Green 2011) and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Moher et al. 2009). Electronic systematic searches from January 1996 to August 2017 were conducted in PsycINFO, Scopus, ProQuest Social Sciences Journals, CINAHL, and PubMed databases. Eight studies met the inclusion criteria representing 1952 parents from four different countries. Of the engagement strategies tested in included studies (monetary incentive, setting, testimonial, advertisement, and engagement package), three strategies (advertisement, incentive, and engagement package) showed a significant effect on a stage of engagement, but none across stages. The low methodological quality of the selected studies limits their generalisability and thus provides limited evidence regarding effective engagement strategies to increase recruitment, enrolment, and first attendance rates in parenting interventions. There is a need for further, more methodologically rigorous, research evidence regarding how to engage parents more effectively in the early stages of parenting interventions.

Indexed as

Health EducationMotivationParentingParentsAdultChildChild, PreschoolHumansEngagement strategiesParental engagementParenting interventionSystematic reviewYoung children

Identifiers

PMID29611061

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