Trial reportDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Building Healthy Children: A preventive intervention for high-risk young families.
Trial report in Development and psychopathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effectiveness of Trauma-Informed Parenting Programs for Traumatized Parents and Their Components: A Meta-Analytic Study.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Criminal Legal System Experiences Among Families Receiving Home Visiting Services: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- The long and winding road: Pathways from basic research to implementation and evaluation.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- The next generation of developmental psychopathology research: Including broader perspectives and becoming more precise.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Parenting Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Physical Punishment: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Mental health and well-being for the prevention of substance use disorders.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Child maltreatment and youth suicide risk: A developmental conceptual model and implications for suicide prevention.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Enrollment and outcomes of home visiting for mothers with and without a history of out-of-home care.Infant mental health journal · 2022Article
- Transforming the paradigm of child welfare.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The Building Healthy Children (BHC) home-visiting preventive intervention was designed to provide concrete support and evidence-based intervention to young mothers and their infants who were at heightened risk for child maltreatment and poor developmental outcomes. This paper presents two studies examining the short- and long-term effectiveness of this program at promoting positive parenting and maternal mental health, while preventing child maltreatment and harsh parenting. It also examines the intervention's sustained effect on child symptomatology and self-regulation. At baseline, young mothers and their infants were randomly assigned to receive BHC or Enhanced Community Standard. Families were assessed longitudinally across four time points. Data were also collected from the child's teacher at follow-up. Mothers who received BHC evidenced significant reductions in depressive symptoms at mid-intervention, which was associated with improvements in parenting self-efficacy and stress as well as decreased child internalizing and externalizing symptoms at postintervention. The follow-up study found that BHC mothers exhibited less harsh and inconsistent parenting, and marginally less psychological aggression. BHC children also exhibited less externalizing behavior and self-regulatory difficulties across parent and teacher report. Following the impactful legacy of Dr. Edward Zigler, these findings underline the importance of early, evidence-based prevention to promote well-being in high-risk children and families.
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