Can positive parenting program (Triple P) be useful to prevent child maltreatment?

Abstract

Objective:This study aimed to determine the effect of the positive parenting program (Triple P) on child maltreatment, children's behaviors, and coping strategies of mothers.Materials and Methods:This study was the pretest-posttest quasiexperimental design. Secondary care state hospital located in the Cappadocia region between January and February 2016. This study was conducted with mothers (n: 138) of children aged between 4 and 12 years, 126 mothers were available to finish the study. Triple P was provided to the mothers in totally three sessions as once per a week. Mothers filled the scales and parent-child information form before the intervention and just after the intervention. Parent-child information form, child behavior checklist, and ways of coping inventory were administered to the mothers.Results:It was determined that after the training, mean scores obtained by the children from the subscales of anxiety, social problems, somatic complaints, attention problems, rule-breaking, and aggressive behaviors decreased (P < 0.05) and desperate approach and submissive approach mean scores of the mothers decreased (P < 0.001) whereas their social support mean scores increased (P < 0.05). In addition, the mothers, who stated that they were frequently looking angry (17.4%), yelling (24.6%), sometimes humiliating (27.7%) to their children, and injured their faces (6.3%) in the past 1 month, said that they did these behaviors to their children at lower rate at the end of the training (3.9%, 17.4%, 19.8%, and 0.0%, respectively).Conclusions:It was determined that Triple P was effective in reducing children's behavioral problems and improving mothers' strategies of coping with stress and contributed the reduction of emotional and physical abuse applied to children. It is recommended to ensure the continuity of these training programs.

Universal Intervention to Strengthen Parenting and Prevent Child Maltreatment: Updated Systematic Review

“…The number of sessions of the programs was 8–44, with a duration of 1–3 hr. The study with The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) did not provide the number of sessions since the participants were exposed to different levels of the program (Ozyurt et al, 2018). Regarding the Circle of Parents, there is a broad range of the number of sessions from three to 20 sessions (Haskett et al, 2017).…”

“…Most of the studies ( n = 13) focused on children 0–8 years old. In four studies, the age range was broad: from early childhood to 12 years old (Ozyurt et al, 2018; Pruett et al, 2019) and 17–18 years old (Cesáreo et al, 2018; Durrant et al, 2017). One study did not report the age of children.…”

Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Maternal Maltreatment: A Population-Based Comparative Analysis

“…There are a range of evidence-based interventions targeting these risk factors that may be effective in reducing further maltreatment. These programs include home-visitation programs (Olds, 2006), parenting programs such as the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) for at risk mothers (Ozyurt et al, 2018), education on contraception for adolescents (Sieving et al, 2007), and culturally appropriate strategies and action plans for Indigenous Australian families (DCSYW, 2020).…”

“…The Triple P contains a multi-level system program that is culturally appropriate and it provides communication strategies (level 1), parenting advice (level 2), narrow focused parent skills training (level 3), broad focused parent skills training (level 4), and intensive family intervention (level 5) for parents at a high-risk of maltreating their children (Pickering & Sanders, 2016). The Triple P has been found to reduce children's behavioural and emotional problems, as well as strengthening the mothers' parenting skills and coping strategies to reduce the risk of child maltreatment perpetration (Ozyurt et al, 2018).…”

Abuse-Neglect Behaviors of Mothers for Their Children and Factors That Affect

“…Yapılan çalışmalarda; bu eğitimlerin ebeveynler ve çocuk ruh sağlığı üzerine olumlu etkilerinin olduğu, ebeveynlerin streslerini azaltmada ve çocuklara kötü muameleyi önleme konusunda etkili olduğu belirlenmiştir (18,19). Ayrıca ailelere yapılan ev ziyaretlerinin de çocukların güvenliği ve ideal gelişimi açısından istismarı önlemede etkili ve önleyici bir müdahale olduğu görüşü savunulmaktadır (20).…”