Journal article
The Parenting to Reduce Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Scale: Assessing parental concordance with parenting guidelines for the prevention of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders
MC Cardamone-Breen, AF Jorm, KA Lawrence, AJ Mackinnon, MBH Yap
Peerj | PEERJ INC | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3825
Abstract
Background. Despite substantial evidence demonstrating numerous parental risk and protective factors for the development of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders, there is currently no single measure that assesses these parenting factors. To address this gap, we developed the Parenting to Reduce Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Scale (PRADAS) as a criterion-referenced measure of parental concordance with a set of evidence-based parenting guidelines for the prevention of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders. In this paper, we used a sample of Australian parents of adolescents to: (1) validate the PRADAS as a criterion-referenced measure; (2) examine parental concordance with the..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by: Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Strategic Grant Scheme funding (SGS15-0149); Australian Rotary Health Research Grant; and the Windermere Foundation Doctoral Scholarship in Health (Allied Health, 2016). Mairead C. Cardamone-Breen received an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Marie B.H. Yap received salary support from a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship (APP1061744). Anthony F. Jorm received salary support from an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (APP1059785). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.