Parenting intervention in Sure Start services for children at risk of developing conduct disorder: pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of a parenting programme as a preventive intervention with parents of preschool children considered to be at risk of developing conduct disorder.

Design

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial using a block design with allocation by area.

Setting

Eleven Sure Start areas in north and mid-Wales.

Participants

153 parents from socially disadvantaged areas, with children aged 36-59 months at risk of conduct disorder defined by scoring over the clinical cut off on the Eyberg child behaviour inventory. Participants were randomised on a 2:1 basis, 104 to intervention and 49 to remaining on the wait listing (control). Twenty (13%) were lost to follow-up six months later, 18 from the intervention group.

Intervention

The Webste

SUBMITTER: Hutchings J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1839187 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature