Background: Smoking is increasing among adolescents, and family is a factor influencing it. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between transition in smoking stages and parenting styles of parents of adolescents. Materials and Methods: This was a longitudinal study in which 396...

BACKGROUND Engaging parents who have a personality disorder in interventions designed to protect children from the extremes of the disorder supports both parenting skills and healthy child development. In line with evidence-based guidelines, a 'Parenting with Personality Disorder' brief intervention was developed, focusing on child safety, effective communication and parenting strategies. MET...

INTRODUCTION Infancy is an important period of life; adverse experiences during this stage can have both immediate and lifelong impacts on the child's mental health and well-being. This study evaluates the effects of offering the Incredible Years Parents and Babies (IYPB) program as a universal intervention. METHOD We conducted a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel pilot randomized controlled trial;...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a parenting programme, offered universally in primary care, can prevent behavioural problems in children and improve parenting and maternal mental health. DESIGN Cluster randomised trial. SETTING 40 primary care nursing centres (clusters) in Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 733 English speaking mothers of 8 month old children sequentially recruited from wel...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a peer led parenting intervention delivered to socially disadvantaged families. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Schools and children’s centres in a socially deprived borough of inner London. Participants Parental caregivers seeking help with managing the problem behaviours of 116 index children, aged 2-11 years; 59 families were randomised ...

OBJECTIVE The impact of the Global War on Terror on two million U.S. military children remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to describe the psychosocial profile of school age children during parental deployment utilizing standardized psychosocial health and stress measures, and to identify predictors of children at "high risk" for psychosocial morbidity during wartime deployment. ME...