Internet and telephone-assisted training for child disruptive behavior

Internet and telephone-assisted training

Internet and telephone-assisted training for child disruptive behavior

Internet and telephone-assisted training 

A new study report has been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (JAACAP). In this study, researchers have claimed that, for a large number of families, screens, internet-and telephone-assisted training from the general population, which target disruptive behavior in children at the age of 4, the possibility of such disruptive behavior Decreases. The program was effective 24 months after the start and has explained positive long-term consequences, such as a decrease in child disruptive behavior and an increase in parental skills. Disruptive behavioral preschool children show a significant functional loss in home, daycare, school, and community settings. Many studies have shown that there are unwanted, long-term, harmful consequences in the behavior of mental and physical health problems, crime, misuse of substances, and later risk of suicide in life. Untreated Disruptive Behavior Disorders are some of the most expensive childhood psychological disorders.

Parental training is one of the most effective approaches to the psychological treatment of disruptive behavioral problems in young children. However, no previous randomized controlled trial (RCT) has been conducted on interventions offering remote or Internet-backed parental training and population-based screening.

This study report on disadvantageous behavioral problems, which were either random to obtain parental training or an educational control condition with the help of an 11-week Internet, reports on two-year results from preschool children. The study is somewhat unique, due to its long-term follow-up period with the facility of enrollment and 24 months evaluation due to the use of population-based screening, which had a very low accident rate. Overall, 730 out of 4,656 four-year-old children participating in annual child health clinic check-ups in Southwest Finland used to meet the criteria for high-level disruptive behavioral problems. 464 parents participated in the 11-week strongest Family Smart Website (SFSW) Intervention Program or Educational Control (EC) Group.

When the SFSW and EC groups were compared between the baseline and after the follow-up of 24 months, the primary result of the outcome of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBBC) resulted in a substantial improvement in the SFSW group (effect size 0.22; p <0.001 ). In addition, compared to the EC group, the SFSW group has seen a considerable decrease in the psychology of most of the child, including aggression, sleep problems, anxiety, and other emotional problems. Similarly, in the SFSW group, the skills of parents are further increased compared to the EC group. Interestingly, the children of the SFSW group used less child mental health services than the EC group during the 24-month follow-up period (17.5 percent vs. 28.0 percent).

Lead author Andre Sourander, MD, Ph.D., of the University of Turku, Finland, and leader of the research group, said in his statement "When traditional parental training requires referral to clinical services, often the result is quite delayed. , And older children need supportive therapy for parental training.

Studies have recognized that Internet-assisted treatment programs can provide some benefits on traditional interventions: they include high-level support; More reach; Facility; And the cost decreased. Due to the global lack of skilled workers solving digital mental health problems, it is important to study the feasibility and effectiveness of digitalized child mental health interventions. In the past, parents were highly motivated and continued their participation in the training program. The most important thing is that the treatment effect was maintained for two years. In the early stage, the identity of children in danger in the community was enabled to provide effective local government services to the effective parental training programs for a large number of families, many of whom did not participate in clinic-based services.
Our findings address some important public health challenges in providing parents training programs, said Andre Sourander.

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Andre Sourander,, Susanna Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki, Marjo Kurki,  Two-Year Follow-up of Internet and Telephone Assisted Parent Training for Disruptive Behavior at Age 4. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018

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