Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · Sep 2008
Review Meta AnalysisParenting interventions and the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood: systematic review and meta-analysis.
To evaluate the effectiveness of parenting interventions in preventing unintentional injury and increasing parental safety practices. ⋯ Parenting interventions, most commonly provided within the home, using multi-faceted interventions appear to be effective in reducing unintentional child injury. Further research is required to explore the mechanisms by which parenting interventions reduce injury, the features of interventions that are necessary to reduce injury, and their generalizability to different population groups.
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Child Care Health Dev · Jan 2005
Review Meta AnalysisPreventing emotional and behavioural problems: the effectiveness of parenting programmes with children less than 3 years of age.
Emotional and behavioural problems in children under 3 years of age have a high prevalence, and parenting practices have been shown to be strongly associated with their development. A number of recent systematic reviews have shown that group-based parenting programmes can be effective in improving the emotional and behavioural adjustment of older children (aged 3-10 years). The aim of this review was to establish whether there is evidence from controlled trials that group-based parenting programmes are effective in improving the emotional and behavioural adjustment of children less than 3 years of age, and their role in the primary prevention of emotional and behavioural problems. ⋯ It is concluded that this review points to the potential of parenting programmes to improve the emotional and behavioural adjustment of children less than 3 years of age, but that there is insufficient evidence from controlled trials to assess whether the short-term benefit is maintained over time, or the role that such programmes might play in the primary prevention of emotional and behavioural problems. This review points to the need for further primary preventive research on this important public health issue.