scholarly journals Changes in Couple Relationship Dynamics among Low-Income Parents in a Relationship Education Program Are Associated with Decreases in Their Children’s Mental Health Symptoms

Children ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Sterrett-Hong ◽  
Becky Antle ◽  
Brianna Nalley ◽  
Monica Adams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Relationship Education ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Relationship Dynamics ◽  
Health Symptoms

scholarly journals Relationships between Parent-Reported Parenting, Child-Perceived Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health in Taiwanese Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Yu Huang ◽  
Yi-Ping Hsieh ◽  
April Shen ◽  
Hsi-Sheng Wei ◽  
Jui-Ying Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Perceived Parenting ◽  
Chinese Parenting

The current study examines the relationship between parents’ and children’s reports of parenting and their effects on children’s mental health symptoms. Six hundred and sixty-six parent-child dyads in Taiwan participated in this study. The parents and the children filled out the parenting questionnaires, and the children also reported their general mental health. The results demonstrated that parental-reported and child-perceived parenting were positively correlated, but parents tended to report lower scores on authoritarian parenting and higher scores on Chinese parenting than did their children. There were also significant gender differences: The mothers reported higher authoritative parenting than did the fathers; and the boys perceived higher authoritarian and Chinese-culture specific parenting than did the girls. Moreover, the Chinese parenting had a negative effect on children’s mental health outcomes. Finally, our results showed that children’s perception of parenting had a stronger effect on children’s mental health symptoms than did parental reports on parenting, urging future research to include the children’s report when investigating the effects of parenting on children’s mental health outcomes.

scholarly journals Stages of change as a correlate of mental health symptoms in abused, low-income African American women

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1531-1543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany A. Edwards ◽  
Debra Houry ◽  
Robin S. Kemball ◽  
Sharon E. Harp ◽  
Louise-Anne McNutt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
American Women

Parents’ perception of children’s mental health: seeing the signs but not the problems

2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 1102-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Huang ◽  
Harriet Hiscock ◽  
Kim M Dalziel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Income Quintile ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Low Income Families

BackgroundIt is a public heath priority to understand why many children with mental health problems fail to access mental health services. This study aims to quantify under-recognition of children’s mental health problems by parents across income quintiles.MethodsWe estimated under-recognition with parent-reported mental health problems and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) using a nationally representative Australian data set for children aged 4–15 years with 24 269 person-wave observations.ResultsUnder-recognition was the highest in the lowest income quintile, with 11.5% of children from the lowest income quintile families who scored in the clinical range on the SDQ perceived by parents as having no mental health problems. For the highest income quintile this was 2.4%. In terms of gender and age, under-recognition was greater for boys and younger children.ConclusionsParent’s mental health literacy, especially for low-income families, warrants prioritised attention from researchers, clinicians and policymakers.

scholarly journals Parents With Mental Illness: Parental Coping Behavior and Its Association With Children's Mental Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlit Sell ◽  
Alina Radicke ◽  
Bonnie Adema ◽  
Anne Daubmann ◽  
Reinhold Kilian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Parental Coping ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Parents With Mental Illness

The relevance of coping behavior for the individual's own mental health has been widely investigated. However, research on the association between coping of parents with a mental illness and their children's mental health is scarce. In the current study, we address the role of several parental coping strategies and their relation to child psychological symptoms. As part of the German randomized controlled multicenter study CHIMPS (children of mentally ill parents), parents with mental illness completed questionnaires on illness-related coping and child mental health symptoms. Children's diagnoses of a mental disorder were assessed with diagnostic interviews. The sample comprised n = 195 parents with mental illness and n = 290 children and adolescents aged 4–18 years. We conducted mixed models to investigate the associations of parental coping strategies with internalizing and externalizing symptoms as well as the diagnosis of a mental disorder in children controlling for sociodemographic factors and parental symptom severity. Parental coping characterized by religiosity and quest for meaning was significantly associated with fewer mental health symptoms and lower odds of a mental disorder in children, whereas a depressed processing style was related to increased internalizing problems in the children. Coping behavior in parents with mental illness is a relevant factor for the mental health of their children and should be considered in preventive interventions.

scholarly journals Effectiveness and costs associated with a lay counselor–delivered, brief problem-solving mental health intervention for adolescents in urban, low-income schools in India: 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. e1003778
Author(s):  
Kanika Malik ◽  
Daniel Michelson ◽  
Aoife M. Doyle ◽  
Helen A. Weiss ◽  
Giulia Greco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms

Background Psychosocial interventions for adolescent mental health problems are effective, but evidence on their longer-term outcomes is scarce, especially in low-resource settings. We report on the 12-month sustained effectiveness and costs of scaling up a lay counselor–delivered, transdiagnostic problem-solving intervention for common adolescent mental health problems in low-income schools in New Delhi, India. Methods and findings Participants in the original trial were 250 school-going adolescents (mean [M] age = 15.61 years, standard deviation [SD] = 1.68), including 174 (69.6%) who identified as male. Participants were recruited from 6 government schools over a period of 4 months (August 20 to December 14, 2018) and were selected on the basis of elevated mental health symptoms and distress/functional impairment. A 2-arm, randomized controlled trial design was used to examine the effectiveness of a lay counselor–delivered, problem-solving intervention (4 to 5 sessions over 3 weeks) with supporting printed booklets (intervention arm) in comparison with problem solving delivered via printed booklets alone (control arm), at the original endpoints of 6 and 12 weeks. The protocol was modified, as per the recommendation of the Trial Steering Committee, to include a post hoc extension of the follow-up period to 12 months. Primary outcomes were adolescent-reported psychosocial problems (Youth Top Problems [YTP]) and mental health symptoms (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [SDQ] Total Difficulties scale). Other self-reported outcomes included SDQ subscales, perceived stress, well-being, and remission. The sustained effects of the intervention were estimated at the 12-month endpoint and over 12 months (the latter assumed a constant effect across 3 follow-up points) using a linear mixed model for repeated measures and involving complete case analysis. Sensitivity analyses examined the effect of missing data using multiple imputations. Costs were estimated for delivering the intervention during the trial and from modeling a scale-up scenario, using a retrospective ingredients approach. Out of the 250 original trial participants, 176 (70.4%) adolescents participated in the 12-month follow-up assessment. One adverse event was identified during follow-up and deemed unrelated to the intervention. Evidence was found for intervention effects on both SDQ Total Difficulties and YTP at 12 months (YTP: adjusted mean difference [AMD] = −0.75, 95% confidence interval [CI] = −1.47, −0.03, p = 0.04; SDQ Total Difficulties: AMD = −1.73, 95% CI = −3.47, 0.02, p = 0.05), with stronger effects over 12 months (YTP: AMD = −0.98, 95% CI = −1.51, −0.45, p < 0.001; SDQ Total Difficulties: AMD = −1.23, 95% CI = −2.37, −0.09; p = 0.03). There was also evidence for intervention effects on internalizing symptoms, impairment, perceived stress, and well-being over 12 months. The intervention effect was stable for most outcomes on sensitivity analyses adjusting for missing data; however, for SDQ Total Difficulties and impairment, the effect was slightly attenuated. The per-student cost of delivering the intervention during the trial was $3 United States dollars (USD; or $158 USD per case) and for scaling up the intervention in the modeled scenario was $4 USD (or $23 USD per case). The scaling up cost accounted for 0.4% of the per-student school budget in New Delhi. The main limitations of the study’s methodology were the lack of sample size calculations powered for 12-month follow-up and the absence of cost-effectiveness analyses using the primary outcomes. Conclusions In this study, we observed that a lay counselor–delivered, brief transdiagnostic problem-solving intervention had sustained effects on psychosocial problems and mental health symptoms over the 12-month follow-up period. Scaling up this resource-efficient intervention is an affordable policy goal for improving adolescents’ access to mental health care in low-resource settings. The findings need to be interpreted with caution, as this study was a post hoc extension, and thus, the sample size calculations did not take into account the relatively high attrition rate observed during the long-term follow-up. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03630471.

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