Detailed contribution information
| Contribution title | 3182 - The Effects of parenting Skills Training in the Community Setting |
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| Contribution code | PS01-88 (P) |
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Objectives：The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of parenting skills training (PST) for mothers in community settings. Methods：18 mothers participated in a PST program once a month for 10 months. Age range of participants was from 30 to 50 years(mean age= 41.11±4.89). and one session was composed of two parts, parenting skill education for fifty minutes and parent group session for thirty minutes. Contents of sessions included the following; 1) normal developments, common psychiatric illnese and academic problems of children and adolescents, 2) communication skills between parents and children and discipline skill, 3) Ways to help improve the social skills of children and adolescents. Pre-training and post-training assessments encompassed symptom checklist-90 revised(SCL-90r), parenting stress index short form(PSI-SF), child rearing attitude. Results： Mothers received PST showed significant improvement in total score(p=.010) and two subscale scores of PSI-SF, namely parental distress(p=.009), parent–child dysfunctional interaction(p=.046). And more mothers showed affective-autonomic sensitive child rearing attitude after PST. But they showed no significant change in the score of difficult child subscale of PSI-SF and SCL-90r, Conclusion：Results suggest that PST in the community setting is an effective tool for reducing parenting distress and improve child rearing attitude, and it may eventually improve their children’s mental health, but further studies are needed to confirm these findings. |