Family-based preventive intervention for children of parents with severe mental illness: A randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children of parents with a severe mental illness have an increased risk of developing a lifetime mental illness. We aimed to compare the effects of a preventive family-based intervention, VIA Family, with treatment as usual (TAU) on these children's global functioning.

Methods

Between 2017 and 2021, we conducted a pragmatic, rater-blinded, two-arm parallel-group superiority trial in Denmark. Families with at least one child aged 6-12 years and at least one biological parent with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, or recurrent major or moderate depression were included. We randomly allocated 95 families with their 113 children to VIA Family or TAU (ratio 1:1). VIA Family was individually tailored and based on case management. The intervention includ

SUBMITTER: Muller AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11472814 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature