Using Longitudinal Social Network Analysis to Evaluate a Community-Wide Parenting Intervention.

ABSTRACT: Harsh parenting attitudes and behaviors negatively impact children's behavior and development, and are linked to heightened levels of violence in children. Parent training programs are effective preventive interventions, but only reach caregivers who attend them. In this study, programs were implemented alongside a community mobilization process, intended to use caregivers' social networks to disseminate new parenting skills community wide. We used social network analysis to explore whether this intervention, first, increased positive parenting, second, changed social networks of female caregivers (selection), and, third, influenced parenting behavior via connections (socialization), while controlling for psychiatric morbidity, parenting stress, alcohol misuse, and child's age. "Colored" A

SUBMITTER: Kleyn LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7762743 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature