NCJ Number
230432
Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Dated: March 2010 Pages: 206-213
Date Published
March 2010
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This study assessed whether primary health care settings can be used to engage and provide a preventive intervention to Iranian mothers of young children.
Abstract
Results of the study indicate that compared to the control group there were significant improvements from pre- to post-test in the intervention group on measures of Parenting Scales (PS) total scores and Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale-modified (CTSPCm) total scores. These results support previous international studies that primary healthcare settings can be used successfully to engage and provide preventive interventions to mothers of young children. Parents, who are unaware of effective discipline strategies, may be abusive or neglectful. Prevention activities, such as parent education provide many families the support they need to stay together, prevent child abuse, create healthy family relationships, teach health practices, keep youth in school, prevent substance abuse or early pregnancy, and care for their children in their homes and communities. In Iran, one way of accessing parents is at health centers where parents routinely bring their children for monitoring at least once a year. The purpose of this study was to assess whether primary healthcare settings can be used to engage and provide a preventive intervention to mothers of young children. The study was conducted in Iran and consisted of 224 mothers who had come to the health centers to vaccinate their children, between the ages of 2 and 6 years, in 2007. Figures, tables, and references