Parent Non-engagement in Preventive Parenting Programs for Adolescent Mental Health: Stakeholder Views

Engaging Parents of Lower-Socioeconomic Positions in Internet- and Mobile-Based Interventions for Youth Mental Health: A Qualitative Investigation

“…This suggests additional research is needed to investigate the optimal integration of desired program features. For example, based on evidence associated with face-to-face programs [57,69], promotional material may need to better highlight the presence of appealing features to motivate enrolment.…”

“…Therefore, IMI-program developers may be able to increase lower-SEP parents' engagement in their programs by taking these themes into consideration and including associated program features [65]. It may also be important to clearly highlight the inclusion of such features in promotional materials to prompt initial engagement [57,69]. Additional considerations include increasing the customisability of IMIs to allow parents to tailor program features to best suit their needs [86] and the development of more multi-level approaches (e.g., [14,58]) to increase reach.…”

“…Psychological barriers also play an important role in low enrolment for in-person interventions, with the stigmatisation of mental illness [53,54] impacting lower-SEP parents' willingness to engage [50,55]. Therefore, it has been suggested that digital delivery of programs may also promote engagement through normalising help-seeking and program use [56], as well as the additional anonymity afforded to parents online [57,58].…”

Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework

“…First, factors within the same level can influence and interact with each other (e.g., it could be hypothesized that parents' own history of mental health concerns may impact their perceived stigma). Further, factors in each level can influence and interact with factors in other levels (e.g., if a parenting program is being organized at the adolescent's high-school, then the opinion of the adolescent about the parenting program is likely to matter more to parents, and to influence their readiness to engage; Finan et al, 2019). These factors can interact in dynamic ways to develop, maintain, and moderate a parent's initial engagement.…”

“…As an example some studies found no difference in enrolment between single and multiparent families (Heinrichs et al, 2005), while others have found that single parents are less likely to engage (Gross et al, 2001). Other potential individual-level factors include parental motivation, personal experience of mental health problems, self-efficacy, and experience of stigma (Finan et al, 2018(Finan et al, , 2019McCurdy & Daro, 2001). Parental motivation has been found to affect parental initial engagement in preventive parenting programs (Mucka et al, 2017;Spoth & Redmond, 1995).…”