Parents make the difference: a randomized-controlled trial of a parenting intervention in Liberia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a brief parenting intervention, 'Parents Make the Difference'(PMD), on parenting behaviors, quality of parent-child interactions, children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing, and malaria prevention behaviors in rural, post-conflict Liberia.

Methods

A sample of 270 caregivers of children ages 3-7 were randomized into an immediate treatment group that received a 10-session parent training intervention or a wait-list control condition (1:1 allocation). Interviewers administered baseline and 1-month post-intervention surveys and conducted child-caregiver observations. Intent-to-treat estimates of the average treatment effects were calculated using ordinary least squares regression. This study was

SUBMITTER: Puffer ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5269617 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature