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Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2022

The Families First Program to Prevent Child Abuse: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in West Java, Indonesia.

Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Brett D Thombs, Nancy E Mayo, Michelle Andrina, Susan C Scott, Robert William Platt

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Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Systematic Review of Parenting Programs for Southeast Asian Families.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mónica Ruiz-CasaresDepartment of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. monica.ruizcasares@mcgill.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-5090-8349
Brett D ThombsDepartment of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Nancy E MayoResearch Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Michelle AndrinaSMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Susan C ScottResearch Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Robert William PlattResearch Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
McGill University Health Centre · CAJewish General Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Families First parenting program is a 10-week paraprofessional-administered adaptation of the Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting program for West Java, Indonesia. It has not been tested in a randomized controlled trial. The objective was to evaluate the effects of Families First on physical and emotional punishment. We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial and randomly assigned 20 rural and urban villages in West Java, Indonesia, to intervention or waitlist. Caregivers of children aged 0-7 years in intervention villages received Families First. Between 2017 and 2018, measurements were taken before randomization, immediately post-intervention, and 6 months post-intervention. Primary outcome was presence versus absence of caregiver-reported physical or emotional punishment immediately post-intervention. Intention-to-treat regression models accounted for clustering within villages and were run to compare between groups. Participants and study personnel could not be blinded. There were 374 caregivers in the 10 intervention villages and 362 in the 10 waitlist villages included in the trial and in outcome analyses. The intervention did not result in a lower proportion of intervention families using punishment immediately post-intervention (odds ratio [OR] for physical or emotional punishment immediately post intervention = 1.20 (95% CI 0.79-1.82). There were no significant differences for positive and involved parenting, setting limits, and opinion on discipline, but caregivers in the intervention group had significantly lower odds of using positive discipline (OR = 0.65 (95% CI 0.53-0.80). Families First did not prevent punishment in a setting with low levels of reported punishment but should be tested in a setting with higher levels or among people selected for risk or presence.

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Child AbuseCaregiversChildHumansIndonesiaParentingPunishmentChild maltreatmentIndonesiaParentingPositive disciplineRandomized control trialViolence

Identifiers

PMID36098893
PMCPMC9587081
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