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SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2020

Online parent programs for children's behavioral problems: a meta-analytic review.

Therdpong Thongseiratch, Patty Leijten, G J Melendez-Torres

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Synthesis in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06447909 (Randomized Controlled Trial of a Behavioral Training App), which is not on this map. Cited by 68 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT06447909 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Behavioral Training App

TypeinterventionalSponsorNew York UniversityRan2024 to 2024Enrolled100ConditionsBehavior, Child, Disruptive Behavior, Executive Dysfunction, Attention-deficitArmsTreatment App, Sham app
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Online Parenting Programs for Children's Behavioral and Emotional Problems: a Network Meta-Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025
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  13. Evaluating A Brief Telehealth Positive Parenting Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Therdpong ThongseiratchChild Development Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand. ttherd@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-6106
Patty LeijtenResearch Institute of Child Development and Education & Research Priority Area YIELD, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
G J Melendez-TorresThe Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent increase in the development of online parent programs calls for the need to understand how effective these strategies are for improving children's mental health. We meta-analyzed the effects of online parent programs on children's behavioral problems. Moreover, we explored the combinations of program components to yield stronger program effects. Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched. We included peer-reviewed randomized studies evaluating the effect of an online parent program. Effect sizes (Hedges' g) were calculated from post intervention means and standard deviations. We used Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to identify pathways to effectiveness and individual content and delivery components that seem sufficient or necessary for yielding high effectiveness. Of 2941 articles, 12 articles with a total of 2025 participants met the inclusion criteria. Online parent programs have significant effects on children's behavioral problems (g =   - 0.32; 95% CI, - 0.47 to - 0.17), emotional problems (g =  - 0.22; 95% CI, - 0.31 to - 0.13), and parental mental health problems (g =  - 0.30; 95% CI, - 0.42 to - 0.17). In the QCA, sending parents reminders to work on the program was the only one sufficient component. In conclusion, online support programs reduce children's behavioral and emotional problems and improve parental mental health. Sending parents reminders to work on the program seems to contribute to high effectiveness. Review Registration This study was registered with PROSPERO, number CRD42017080051.

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ChildChild Behavior DisordersFemaleHumansInternetInternet-Based InterventionMaleParentsBehavioral problemEmotional problemMeta-analysisOnline parent programParental mental healthQualitative comparative analysis

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PMID31925545

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