The primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effect of the Webster-Stratton Parents and Children Series, a proven, video-based, modeling, nurse-delivered, group cognitive-behavioural parent program, on the parenting skills and autonomous self-regulated behaviours of children (ages 3-to-8 years) in families on the caseload of child protection. Twenty-eight families on the caseload of one of three child protection agencies were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the 16-hour weekly intervention group or the 4-month wait-list control group. Twenty-six families completed the study. Results of the statistical analysis showed that mothers in the treatment group had statistically significant improvement in one parenting skill, involvement, and marginally significant improvement in another parenting skill, autonomy-support, during one of two study activities (free-play) compared to the wait-list control group. No significant improvement was found among children in the treatment group when compared to their study counterparts. Further, little but promising support was found for the hypothesized relationship between mothers with a strong parenting profile and children with a strong autonomous self-regulated profile. / Given the small sample size, providing only 30% power to detect a 10% change, further exploratory analyses were conducted. Although not statistically significant, performance was found to vary according to group, activity and behaviour. Several characteristics distinguished mothers, and children whose performance showed most change (improvement, deterioration). The fact that 92% of the mothers attended six or more of the eight parent program sessions and the low attrition rate (7%) indicate that the intervention may have been more successful with this population than statistical evidence demonstrates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.36610 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Hughes, Jean R. |
| Contributors | Gottlieb, Laurie (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (School of Nursing.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001754103, proquestno: NQ64578, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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