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Parenting intervention for mental health workers
Data for paper published in Frontiers in Psychology June 2022
Data collected to evaluate a novel intervention delivered to mental health workers who are parents employed by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT).Â
Four courses were scheduled to be delivered but two failed to complete due to COVID-19. Only data from the completed courses (Groups 1 & 2) is contained in this datasetÂ
Participant data was collected pre-intervention (T1) at the end of the intervention (T2) and at six-month follow-up (T3)
Managers of consenting participants were contacted by email for feedback.
17 parent participants completed T1 measures (Group 1 (n = 8) or Group 2 (n = 9)); 15 (88.24%) completed T2 measures and six (35.29%) completed T3.Â
8 Manager completed follow-up evaluation.
Due to the small dataset no data cleaning required. Data was analysed using pairwise deletion.Â
Measures
Parental self-efficacy: 48-item scale TOPSEÂ
Parenting behaviour: 9-item Alabama Parenting Questionnaire-Short Form (APQ-SF)
Child behavioural screen: 25-item Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ)Â
Ideographic goal: Personal goal in attending the course. Scored 1-10
Stress: 7 item stress scale of the 21-item Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21)
Wellbeing: Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)
Occupational self-efficacy: 6-item Short-form Occupational Self-efficacy (OSE-SF)
Patient-as-parent practice: 26-item scale devised by the research team and used previously.
Satisfaction and acceptability: a nine-item scale.Â
Manager feedback: Brief online questionnaire comprising four yes/no questions relating to positive and negative effects of the course and an optional free text comment.Â
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Abstract
Background
Mental health workers are subject to high levels of occupational stress which is associated with poorer health and wellbeing and impaired patient outcomes. For individuals operating in high stress environments, reducing challenge at home, in particular around parenting, has been found to generalise into improvements in the professional domain. The present study sought to investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of brief targeted workplace intervention to support workers in terms of their parental role.
Design/methodology
An uncontrolled evaluation of a series of three-session parenting-focused courses delivered to employees of a large Mental Health Trust. A pre-post-follow-up design was used to investigate effects on outcomes including parenting practice and experience, wellbeing, stress, and occupational self-efficacy. Intervention feasibility and acceptably was also evaluated.
Findings
Data from 15 participants who completed measures pre-post indicates the courses were associated with improved parenting practice and experience at a p<.005 level. Improvements were reported at 6-month follow up. Participant satisfaction and course acceptability was highly rated by 100% of participants.</p
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Psychiatric in-patients who are parents: what interventions are tailored to their needs and how do they experience care? A systematic review and data synthesis.
Background
Little is known about the experiences of parents who are in receipt of in-patient psychiatric care or about what interventions are employed to support them in their parenting role.
Aims
The objective of the current study is to review two complementary areas of research: (a) research examining interventions developed to support the parent–child relationship within these settings; and (b) research focused on the experience of parents in in-patient settings.
Method
For studies reporting on parents’ experience, qualitative accounts of past or present psychiatric in-patients (child aged 1–18 years) were included. For intervention studies, the intervention had to focus on supporting the parenting role and/or the parent–child dyad of parents (child aged 1–18 years) in current receipt of in-patient care. Four bibliographic databases (PubMed, SCOPOS, Web of Science and PsychINFO) were searched for relevant published and unpublished literature from 1 January 1980 to 26 July 2022. Intervention studies were appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Qualitative papers were assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tool. Data were extracted using tools designed for the study. Qualitative data were synthesised using thematic analysis. The protocol was registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (reference CRD42022309065).
Results
Twenty-four papers (eight intervention studies and 16 studies examining parent experience) were included in the review. In-patient parents commonly reported hospital admission as having a negative impact on their parenting. Very few robust reports of interventions designed to support parents in receipt of psychiatric in-patient care were found.
Conclusions
Despite the identified need for support by parents who are receiving in-patient care, there is currently no intervention of this nature running in the UK health service.</p
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Investigating the effect of providing monetary incentives to participants on completion rates of referred co-respondents: an embedded randomized controlled trial
Background: The use of a second informant (co-respondent) is a common method of identifying potential bias in outcome data (e.g., parent-report child outcomes). There is, however, limited evidence regarding methods of increasing response rates from co-respondents. The use of financial incentives is associated with higher levels of engagement and follow-up data collection in online surveys. This study investigated whether financial incentives paid to index participants in an online trial of a parenting-focused intervention, would lead to higher levels of co-respondent data collection. Methods: A study within a trial (SWAT) using a parallel group RCT design. Participants in the host study (an RCT of an online intervention) were randomised into one of two SWAT arms: received/did not receive a ÂŁ15 voucher when referred co-respondent completed baseline measures. Primary outcome was completion (No/Yes) of Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS or SCAS-Pre) at baseline. Additional analysis explored impact of incentives on data quality. Results: Intention to treat analysis of 899 parents (183 co-respondents) in the no-incentive arm, and 911 parents (199 co-respondents) in incentive arm. Nomination of co-respondents was similar between incentive arms. The RR for the incentive arm compared to the no incentive arm was 1.13 (95% CI: 0.91 to 1.41, p = 0.264) indicating that incentives did not impact completion of outcomes by consented co-respondents. There were no indications of different data quality between arms. Discussion: The finding that payment of financial incentives to index participant does not lead to greater levels of co-respondent outcome completion suggests that careful consideration should be made before allocating resources in this way in future trials. Trial registration: The host study was registered at Study Record | ClinicalTrials.gov and the SWAT study was registered in the SWAT Store | The Northern Ireland Network for Trials Methodology Research (qub.ac.uk): SWAT number 143: Filetoupload,1099612,en.pdf (qub.ac.uk).</p