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Stepping Stones Triple P: the importance of putting the findings into context

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Title
Stepping Stones Triple P: the importance of putting the findings into context
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BMC Medicine, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0260-9
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Cassandra L Tellegen, Kate Sofronoff

Abstract

The Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) parenting program is an evidence-based program for parents of children with a disability. A trial of SSTP was recently published in BMC Medicine, which reported results of a randomized controlled trial comparing SSTP to care-as-usual. Although the paper described what should be an important replication trial of SSTP, there are significant shortcomings to the scientific approach of the reporting that need to be addressed. The paper initially cites only a few published SSTP studies and describes evidence for the efficacy of the program as "very scarce". A meta-analysis of studies evaluating SSTP published prior to submission of this paper was not cited. The results are inconsistent with previous evidence for SSTP, yet the authors provide scant interpretation for this inconsistency. Similarly, the unusually high dropout rate of 49% was not adequately explained. The claims that previous research has only been conducted by the developers, has not included children with intellectual disability, and has not used care-as-usual comparison groups, are inaccurate. This commentary explores these issues further in order to place the findings from the recent trial into context.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/191.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 4%
Australia 1 4%
Unknown 25 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Librarian 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 19%
Social Sciences 5 19%
Psychology 4 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Computer Science 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 8 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 February 2015.
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#14,388,554
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#3,091
of 4,004 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#175,501
of 360,581 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#50
of 57 outputs
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