title: Predictors of Participation in the Family Check-Up Program: a Randomized Trial of Yearly Services from Age 2 to 10 Years.
abstract: A key challenge of community-based prevention programs is engaging families in the context of services settings involving children and families. The Family Check-Up (FCU) program is designed to engage families in parenting support appropriate to their level of need by use of assessment-enhanced motivational interviewing. This study involved families screened for risk who were seeking services at women, infant, and children's offices in three geographical regions (N = 731). Families in the randomized intervention group (N = 367) were offered the FCU yearly, from age 2 through 10. The results of multivariate modeling indicated that caregivers reporting high levels of perceived caregiving stress (i.e., depression, low parenting satisfaction, daily hassles) participated at a higher rate in two critical components (feedback and follow-up support interventions) of the FCU program over the 8-year trial period than caregivers reporting lesser degrees of stress. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of family-centered programs for the prevention of child behavior problems and directions for future research.
authors.affiliation: Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL, 60657, USA. jd.smith@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Justin D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: REACH Institute, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA.
authors.forename: Cady
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Berkel
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
authors.forename: Katherine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Hails
authors.affiliation: Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL, 60657, USA.|Oregon Research Institute, Oregon, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Dishion
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Melvin N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003256:Community Participation; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States
keywords: Engagement; Family Check-Up; Parenting stress; Participation; Retention