The following is a summary of the “Study protocol: development and randomized controlled trial of a preventive blended care parenting intervention for parents with PTSD,” published in the February 2023 issue of Psychiatry by Meijer, et al.
PTSD-afflicted parents put their children at risk of psychological problems. Risk factors include negative parenting, perceived incompetence, and lack of social support. Unfortunately, no parenting intervention has particularly targeted PTSD-exposed parents. A blended care preventative parenting intervention for PTSD parents will be assessed. KopOpOuders Self-Help, an online intervention, was adopted. KopOpOuders-PTSD was created by incorporating PTSD-specific content and three in-person sessions with a mental health preventive specialist in collaboration with parents with PTSD and partners.
In a randomized controlled experiment, 142 Arkin Mental Health Care parents with PTSD will be examined for efficacy (control condition: treatment as usual, 71; intervention condition: treatment as usual + intervention, 71). Pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up online questionnaires and momentary ecological assessment will be used. Generalized linear mixed modeling will examine intervention impacts on primary (parenting behavior) and secondary outcomes (reported parenting competence, parental social support, parenting stress, child psychological difficulties, and PTSD symptoms).
They will examine if pretest parental PTSD symptoms moderate primary and secondary results. This protocol describes the randomized controlled trial of KopOpOuders-PTSD, a blended care preventative parenting intervention for PTSD parents. Results may help explain PTSD therapeutic practice’s parenting support effectiveness.
Source: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-023-04548-8
