The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Parent Centre's Positive Parenting Skills Training (PPST), a parenting programme being delivered in South Africa, is effective in improving parenting, and child behaviour related outcomes.
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parenting Scale (PS), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
Timeframe: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parent Behaviour Inventory (PBI), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
Timeframe: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Change in levels of poor and positive parenting on the Parenting Young Children Scale (PARYC) - Setting Limits subscale, from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
Timeframe: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Change in levels of child problem behaviour on the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI), from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
Timeframe: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).
Change in levels of child problem behaviour on the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) - Externalising Problem subscale, from baseline to post-assessment, to the one-year follow-up.
Timeframe: Baseline (prior to programme initiation), post-assessment (shortly after programme conclusion), one-year follow-up (one year after programme conclusion).