TY - JOUR
T1 - Parenting Interventions Implementation Science
T2 - How Delivery Format Impacts the Parenting Wisely Program
AU - Cotter, Katie L.
AU - Bacallao, Martica
AU - Smokowski, Paul R.
AU - Robertson, Caroline I.B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a cooperative agreement with the North Carolina Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (NC-ACE). This project received appropriate approval from the Institutional Review Board. The goal of NC-ACE is to reduce youth violence in one target community—a rural, economically disadvantaged, ethnically diverse county in the Southeastern United States. To reach this goal, a multilevel youth violence prevention initiative was launched in the fall of 2011. This initiative included universal prevention programming in middle schools, parenting programming, and a juvenile justice diversion program called Teen Court. The current study examined implementation and effectiveness evaluation of the parenting programming (i.e., Parenting Wisely) delivered in the target community. The parents who participated in the Parenting Wisely program (N = 144) were drawn from the target community (i.e., rural, impoverished, ethnically diverse county in a Southeastern state).
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Objectives: This study examines the implementation and effectiveness of Parenting Wisely, an Internet-based parenting skills intervention. The study assesses whether parents benefit from Parenting Wisely participation and whether the delivery format influences program effectiveness. Method: This study uses a quasi-experimental design. Participating parents (N = 144) come from a rural, impoverished, ethnically diverse county in a Southeastern state. The intervention is delivered via four formats: parentsonly intensive workshop, parents-only 5-week group, parent and adolescent 5-week group, and parent and adolescent online format. Results: Findings show an association between Parenting Wisely participation and improvements in family problem solving, family roles, family involvement, parenting self-efficacy, parenting sense of competence, and decreased adolescent violent behavior. Effect sizes vary by delivery format. Conclusion: Positive program effects vary by delivery format and outcome. Practice implications are discussed.
AB - Objectives: This study examines the implementation and effectiveness of Parenting Wisely, an Internet-based parenting skills intervention. The study assesses whether parents benefit from Parenting Wisely participation and whether the delivery format influences program effectiveness. Method: This study uses a quasi-experimental design. Participating parents (N = 144) come from a rural, impoverished, ethnically diverse county in a Southeastern state. The intervention is delivered via four formats: parentsonly intensive workshop, parents-only 5-week group, parent and adolescent 5-week group, and parent and adolescent online format. Results: Findings show an association between Parenting Wisely participation and improvements in family problem solving, family roles, family involvement, parenting self-efficacy, parenting sense of competence, and decreased adolescent violent behavior. Effect sizes vary by delivery format. Conclusion: Positive program effects vary by delivery format and outcome. Practice implications are discussed.
KW - Internet-based intervention
KW - implementation
KW - parenting
KW - prevention
KW - rural
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84885367958
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U2 - 10.1177/1049731513490811
DO - 10.1177/1049731513490811
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885367958
SN - 1049-7315
VL - 23
SP - 639
EP - 650
JO - Research on Social Work Practice
JF - Research on Social Work Practice
IS - 6
ER -