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| Title |
Evaluation of support group interventions for children in troubled families: study protocol for a quasi-experimental control group study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-76 |
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| Authors |
Annemi Skerfving, Fredrik Johansson, Tobias H Elgán |
| Abstract |
Support groups for children in troubled families are available in a majority of Swedish municipalities. They are used as a preventive effort for children in families with different parental problems such as addiction to alcohol/other drugs, mental illness, domestic violence, divorce situations, or even imprisonment. Children from families with these problems are a well-known at-risk group for various mental health and social problems. Support groups aim at strengthening children's coping behaviour, to improve their mental health and to prevent a negative psycho-social development. To date, evaluations using a control-group study design are scarce. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effects of support groups. This paper describes the design of an effectiveness study, initially intended as a randomized controlled trial, but instead is pursued as a quasi-experimental study using a non-randomized control group. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 226 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 225 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 10% |
| Researcher | 20 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 9% |
| Other | 32 | 14% |
| Unknown | 70 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 67 | 30% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 8% |
| Sports and Recreations | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 6% |
| Unknown | 84 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 04 February 2015.
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#10,789
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#179,800
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#224
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