Journal article
Cool Little Kids translational trial to prevent internalising: two-year outcomes and prediction of parent engagement
JK Bayer, LA Prendergast, A Brown, L Harris, L Bretherton, H Hiscock, R Beatson, C Mihalopoulos, RM Rapee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health | WILEY | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.1111/camh.12420
Abstract
Background: The aim was to determine outcomes in the first year of school of a population-delivered parenting program to prevent internalising problems in temperamentally inhibited preschool children and predictors of engagement in parenting groups. Method: Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: 307 preschool services across eight socio-economically diverse government areas in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: 545 parents of inhibited 4-year-old children; 469 (86%) retained at two-year follow-up. Intervention: Cool Little Kids program. Primary outcomes were child internalising symptoms and anxiety disorders. Secondary outcomes were parenting, parent well-being and engagement. Trial ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant 607302 and by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. HH is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship (1136222). All authors share responsibility for the work submitted and published, had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data in the study and the accuracy of the data analysis. The authors thank preschool services and families in the Victorian cities of Banyule, Boroondara, Frankston, Kingston, Knox, Maroondah, Whitehorse and Wyndham who took part in this research. The authors also acknowledge and thank the study clinicians and research assistants. RMR is an author of the Cool Little Kids treatment manual but receives no royalties. The authors have declared that they have no competing or potential conflicts of interest.