title: Caregiver responsiveness to the family bereavement program: what predicts responsiveness? What does responsiveness predict?
abstract: The study developed a multidimensional measure to assess participant responsiveness to a preventive intervention and applied this measure to study how participant baseline characteristics predict responsiveness and how responsiveness predicts program outcomes. The study was conducted with caregivers who participated in the parenting-focused component of the Family Bereavement Program (FBP), a prevention program for families that have experienced parental death. The sample consisted of 89 caregivers assigned to the intervention condition in the efficacy trial of the FBP. Positive parenting, caregiver depression, and child externalizing problems at baseline were found to predict caregivers' use of program skills outside the group, and more child internalizing problems predicted more positive perceptions of the group environment. Higher levels of skill use during the program predicted increased positive parenting at the 11-month follow-up, whereas positive perceptions of the group environment predicted decreased caregiver depressive symptoms at follow-up. Caregiver skill use mediated the relation between baseline positive parenting and improvements in positive parenting at 11-month follow-up, and skill use and perceived group environment mediated changes in caregiver depression from baseline to 11-month follow-up.
authors: Duke Child and Family Studies Center, Duke University Medical Center, 2608 Erwin Rd, Suite 300, Durham, NC, 27705, USA, Erin.Schoenfelder@duke.edu.
authors: Erin N
authors: EN
authors: Schoenfelder
authors: Irwin N
authors: IN
authors: Sandler
authors: Roger E
authors: RE
authors: Millsap
authors: Sharlene A
authors: SA
authors: Wolchik
authors: Cady
authors: C
authors: Berkel
authors: Timothy S
authors: TS
authors: Ayers
mesh_terms: D001601:Bereavement; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents
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