PRO-DIALOG-the effect of a novel dialogue-based parent-teacher conference on mental health in kindergarten children: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health difficulties in preschool children often go unnoticed and may result in delayed access to potentially beneficial services. In Norwegian kindergartens, teachers get to know the children well over time and have parent-teacher conferences once or twice a year. Kindergarten is thus a well-suited arena for early identification and intervention of mental health difficulties. To address the need for a kindergarten-specific method for secondary prevention, we have developed Dialogue-Based Early Detection (DBED) in close collaboration with educators and parents in eight different kindergartens. Results from a feasibility study indicate that DBED works well as a parent-teacher collaborative screening method and is well accepted by the users. In the PRO-DIALOG project

SUBMITTER: Bjelland I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12372322 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature