@article{ref1,
title="Three-year follow-up of a family support service cohort of children with behavioural problems and their parents",
journal="Child: care, health and development",
year="2005",
author="Anderson, L. and Vostanis, P. and O'Reilly, M.",
volume="31",
number="4",
pages="469-477",
abstract="Background The aim of this study was to establish the medium-term (three-year) psychosocial outcome of children with behavioural problems and their parents, who had received an intervention from a family support service. <br><br>METHODS Forty families were traced at the three-year follow-up and agreed to participate. Pre- and post-intervention and follow-up measures were the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). <br><br>RESULTS The primary HoNOSCA outcome items (i.e. those initially targeted by the parenting intervention) of aggression/antisocial behaviour and family relationships were not found to have changed significantly from the baseline (but had not sustained the sort-term improvement following the intervention). Deterioration was found in other HoNOSCA items such as overactivity, self-harm, scholastic/language skills, emotional, and poor school attendance. When we compared pre-intervention with follow-up SDQ scores, there was no significant change on any scales, i.e. these had returned to the level reported at the time of the original referral to the family support service. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS Following the intervention from a family support service, children and families reported a significant improvement in most outcome measures, predominantly child behaviour and family relationships. However, these improvements were either not sustained or there were additional difficulties at three-year follow-up. These could be related to various external and developmental factors. This lack of sustainable treatment effects for children with behavioural problems is consistent with previous research findings on parenting programmes.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0305-1862",
doi="10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00527.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00527.x"
}