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Title: | Outcomes of an early intervention program for children with disruptive behaviour. |
Authors: | Hayes, Louise Giallo, Rebecca Richardson, Kate |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Sage |
Place of publication: | Carlton, VIC. |
Publication Title: | Australasian Psychiatry |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page: | 560 |
End Page: | 566 |
Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: Outcomes are presented from a public mental health early intervention program for children aged 5-9 years with disruptive behaviours. METHOD: This was a school-based intervention initiative, delivered within a psychiatric child and adolescent mental health service and includes child, parent and teacher components. Participants were 235 children selected via school-based population assessments. RESULTS: A baseline period was used as a form of control that would demonstrate the stability of problem behaviours. Results showed that during a 26-week baseline period, teachers reported increasing levels of problem behaviour, and that the behaviour was creating increased difficulty in the classroom. The shorter 7-week baseline also showed the difficult behaviours were ongoing. Following the intervention, significant improvements in children's behaviour were seen on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire reported by parents (η(2) = 0.30) and teachers (η(2) = 0.23), and on the parent Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (η(2) = 0.35), and teacher Sutter-Eyberg Student Behaviour Inventory (η(2) = 0.22). CONCLUSION: The outcomes show promising results from an early intervention program delivered in schools by a public mental health service and are discussed within the context of dissemination of evidence-based programs though mental health services. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/82 |
ISSN: | 1039-8562 |
Internal ID Number: | 00068 |
Health Subject: | ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR DISORDERS - THERAPY CHILD CHILD HEALTH SERVICES - STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA PRESCHOOL CHILD EARLY DIAGNOSIS FEMALE HUMANS MALE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT - STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES - STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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