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SynthesisBMC psychiatry2020

The effectiveness of parent training for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Shoumitro Shoumi Deb, Ameeta Retzer, Meera Roy, Rupali Acharya, Bharati Limbu, Ashok Roy

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Synthesis in BMC psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Shoumitro Shoumi DebImperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, UK. s.deb@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1300-8103
Ameeta RetzerCentre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Meera RoyWorcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, Worcester, UK.
Rupali AcharyaImperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, UK.
Bharati LimbuImperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, UK.
Ashok RoyCoventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
Imperial College London · GBCoventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GBWorcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVarious parent training interventions have been shown to have some effect on the symptoms of children with autism. We carried out a systematic review and meta-analyses to assess effectiveness of parental training for children with autism on their symptoms and parental stress.

methodsFour electronic databases, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched until March 2020 for relevant literature. Two reviewers independently screened bibliographies using an eligibility checklist and extracted data using a structured proforma. We have also carried out meta-analyses when data were available for pooling.

resultsSeventeen papers from 15 studies were included for data analysis. Fifteen papers showed a positive treatment effect when compared with the control group, although not always significant. Meta-analysis based on pooled data from only two studies in each respective intervention, showed small to moderate treatment effects for three interventions, DIR/Floortime, Pivotal Response and Parent focused training respectively.

conclusionsAs in previous systematic reviews there was a mild to moderate treatment effects of three specific types of interventions respectively. However, it was difficult to draw any definitive conclusion about the effectiveness and generalisability of any intervention because of the wide variation in the interventions, control groups, outcome measures, small sample size, small number of studies in meta-analysis, overlap between the intervention and control procedures used in the included studies. There is an urgent need for experts in various international centres to jointly standardise a parent training intervention for children with autism and carry out a large scale RCT to assess its clinical and economic effectiveness. Research Registry Unique Identifying Number: reviewregistry915.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderChildHumansParentsAutismChildrenMeta-analysisParent trainingSystematic review

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PMID33287762
PMCPMC7720449
OpenAlexW3111258775

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