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This annual report - Taranaki District Health Board

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multiple risk factors, there is increasing evidence that improving parenting skills can resultin improvements in children’s behaviour and parental mental health [426].In general, treatment programmes are more effective for children under the age of 12 andparent management training programmes for 3–7 year olds are the interventions mostlikely to produce substantial reductions in rates of child conduct problems [427].Parenting programmesThere is now a very considerable literature relating to parenting programmes for theprevention and treatment of conduct disorders. As an entry point into this literature,readers who require more detailed information than is provided here might like to use theConduct Problems Best Practice Report by the Advisory Group on Conduct problems forthe Ministry of Social Development [427].There are two main varieties of parenting programmes: behavioural and relationship,although many combine elements of both. The aim of relationship programmes is to assistparents to understand both their own and their child’s emotions and behaviour, and toimprove parent-child communication. Behavioural programmes aim to teach parents theskills to address the causes of problem behaviour and strategies such as ignoring badbehaviour and praising co-operative behaviour, building a relationship with their childthrough child-led play, and setting boundaries with ‘time out’ for infringements [428].A 2009 systematic review by Dretzke et al. reviewed 57 randomised controlled trials ofparenting programmes for the treatment of children with conduct problems [424]. Mostinterventions included in the trials were focussed on the parents alone and were deliveredover 10 or fewer sessions. Only four trials were considered to be of good quality. Thereview authors performed a meta-analysis of 24 trials which found that parentingprogrammes significantly reduced parent-<strong>report</strong>ed intensity and frequency of behaviourproblems (intensity SMD -0.67, 95% CI -0.91 to -0.42; frequency SMD -0.62, 95% CI -0.85to -0.40) and they concluded that parenting programmes are an effective treatment forchildren with conduct problems. However, they <strong>report</strong>ed that there was insufficientevidence to determine which types of programme were most likely to be effective, mainlybecause the studies that compared programmes tended to compare programmes thatwere different in several key characteristics making it impossible to determine whichparticular programme features might be associated with better outcomes.A 2012 Cochrane review assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness ofbehavioural and cognitive-behavioural group-based parenting interventions for improvingchild conduct problems (in children aged 3–12 years), parenting skills and parental mentalhealth [426]. Noting that previous reviews had combined results from both group-basedand individual-based programmes and included programmes that were delivered tochildren with comorbidities (other disorders in addition to conduct problems) as well as tochildren with conduct disorders alone, the authors of this review elected to use morestringent criteria in determining which studies to include in their review. Thirteen trials (10RCTs and 3 quasi-randomised trials) were included together with two economicevaluations based on two of the trials. The review authors concluded that behavioural andcognitive-behavioural group-based parenting interventions were both effective and costeffective in the short term for improving child conduct problems, parenting skills andparental mental health but that further research is needed on long term outcomes.Nine of the thirteen studies in the 2012 Cochrane review evaluated the Incredible YearsIntervention which is being widely used in New Zealand in programmes delivered byGroup Special Education, CAMHS and contracted NGOs [429].A preliminary evaluation of the efficacy and cultural acceptability of these programmes inthe New Zealand context has been carried out by Fergusson et al., using data provided bythe Ministry of Education [430]. <strong>This</strong> study used data gathered from 214 parents (ofchildren aged from 2½ to 8 years) who had attended an Incredible Years Basic ParentProgramme for at least nine sessions and it compared pre- and post-test scores on theEyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI) Problem and Intensity Scales [431] and theSocial Competence Scale [432] and also assessed parent satisfaction with theIn-Depth Topic: Mental <strong>Health</strong> Issues in Children - 381

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