Measuring and Enhancing Initial Parent Engagement in Parenting Education: Experiment and Psychometric Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prevention efforts focused on parenting can prevent and reduce the rates of child internalizing and externalizing problems, and positive changes in parenting skills have been shown to mediate improvements in child behavioral problems. However, parent skills training programs remain underused, with estimates that under half of eligible parents complete treatment and even lower rates engage in preventive interventions. Moreover, there is no validated measure to assess initial engagement in parent education or skills training, which is an understudied stage of parent engagement.

Objective

We aimed to test a novel engagement strategy, exploring whether including information pertaining to the neuroscience of child development and parent skills training enhanced parenta

SUBMITTER: Mirzadegan IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9568823 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature