title: Alleviating Parenting Stress in Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Adapted parenting support may alleviate the high levels of parenting stress experienced by many parents with intellectual disabilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parents with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning were randomized to experimental (n = 43) and control (n = 42) conditions. Parents in both groups received care-as-usual. The experimental group also received an adapted version of video-feedback intervention for positive parenting and learning difficulties (VIPP-LD). Measures of parenting stress were obtained pre-test, post-test and 3-month follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Randomization to the experimental group led to a steeper decline in parenting stress related to the child compared to the control group (d = 0.46). No statistically significant effect on stress related to the parent's own functioning or situation was found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the study suggest the feasibility of reducing parenting stress in parents with mild intellectual disability (MID) through parenting support, to the possible benefit of their children.
authors.affiliation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and EMGO+ Institute for Health Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.|ASVZ, Sliedrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marja W
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-3178
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Hodes
authors.affiliation: Vilans, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meppelder
authors.affiliation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and EMGO+ Institute for Health Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marleen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Moor
authors.affiliation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and EMGO+ Institute for Health Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kef
authors.affiliation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and EMGO+ Institute for Health Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schuengel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: intervention programs; mild intellectual disability; parenting; parenting stress; randomized controlled trial; video-feedback