NCT04101799

Evaluation of the Parental Support Intervention For Our Children's Sake in Prisons in Sweden

Children of Incarcerated Parents - Evaluation of Parental Support Programme in Prison to Promote Positive Parenting and Prevent Children's Ill-health and Delinquency Later in Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 91 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluation of the effects of the parental support intervention "For our children's sake" on positive parenting outcomes when conducted with incarcerated parents in prisons in Sweden.

Detailed description

Children of incarcerated parents comprise a greatly disadvantaged group in society with elevated risk of ill-health, behavioural problems, and own delinquency and unemployment later in life. Positive parenting comprise an important factor for children's positive and healthy development. Incarcerated parents may have difficulties to engage in positive parenting due to disadvantaged situations affecting parenting negatively such as drug addiction, poverty, or lack of experience of positive parenting in their own childhood. Previous research has suggested that interventions to prevent the intergenerational effect of criminality should be targeting family factors where positive parenting has been emphasised. Internationally developed parenting interventions for incarcerated parents suggest an impact on parenting outcomes such as positive parent-child interaction, parenting knowledge, empathy, parent stress, increased child contact and active parenting, However, the majority of the programmes evaluated to date have been conducted in the US, with a prison and probation context with limited generalisability to the Swedish system. In Sweden, the parenting programme for incarcerated parents, "For our children's' sake" (FOCS) was developed in 2012-2014 with the aim to support positive parenting for the child's healthy development and is currently delivered in Swedish prisons. The aim of this project is to evaluate the effects of the FOCS parenting programme on parenting outcomes through a controlled trial with a parallel implementation process evaluation.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Parent-Child Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	For Our Children's Sake	Parental support with the aim to support positive parenting and promote healthy child development. Conducted in group-format with weekly 2.hour sessions conducted by trained group leaders according to a programme manual.
OTHER	Active control	Participating in everyday activities that may include parenting activities in the control prisons

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-21
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2019-09-24
• Last updated: 2020-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden