Effect of Baby Triple P or Positive Parenting Program on Mental Health and Mother-child Relationship in Mothers of Hearing-impaired Children

Objective: Hearing loss in children can affect the parent-child relationship and the mental health of parents, especially mothers as the children’s primary caregivers. Maternal mental health problems and challenges in the parent-child relationship can affect the rehabilitation process and the future of hearing-impaired children. Thus, the interventions to promote the parent-child relationship and mental health of parents, especially mothers, should be studied. Triple P or positive parenting program is one of these effective interventional programs. Recently, a new intervention called the Baby Triple P parenting program was developed based on the Triple P program. This study investigates the effect of the Baby Triple P positive parenting program on mental health and mother-child relationship in mothers of children with hearing impairment. Materials & Methods: This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design using a control group. The participants were 24 mothers under 3 years old children with hearing impairment referred to the centers for families and children with hearing disabilities in Tehran, Iran, in 2019. They were selected using a convenience sampling method and then randomly divided into groups of intervention (n=12) and control (n=12). The intervention group received the Baby Triple P positive parenting program for 13 training 1-h sessions, one session per week. The control group did not receive any intervention. Both groups completed the mother-child relationship evaluation questionnaire and the symptom checklist-90-revised instrument before and after the intervention. The collected data were analyzed by the Mann-Whitney U test and independent sample t-test. Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding mental health after the intervention (P>0.05). Among four components of the mother-child relationship, the Baby Triple P program had no significant effect on acceptance, overindulgence, and rejection (P>0.05), except on the overprotection component (P<0.05), which was significantly higher in the intervention group. Conclusion: There is a great need for early interventions for maternal mental health problems and challenges in mother-child relationships for mothers of children with hearing impairment. Although the Baby Triple P is a useful program, it is new for the parents of these children. Considering the unique needs of these children, more studies are needed to enrich the content of this program for the mothers of children with hearing loss to explore its various aspects.

Experiences of Chinese parents and the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program

This qualitative research study explores the experiences of two Chinese mothers who have taken one or more sessions of the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program. Utilizing a narrative methodology to inquiry, semi-structured interviews were conducted to answer the central research question: What are the experiences of Chinese parents who have taken one or more Triple-P sessions, in relation to the socio-political, historical and cultural factors that influence their lives? Data analysis draws from Anti-Oppression and Critical Race Feminism theoretical frameworks. The findings in this study provides insight to the successes, and challenges/needs/concerns of parenting interventions and its practices for the Chinese community.

Experiences of Chinese parents and the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program

This qualitative research study explores the experiences of two Chinese mothers who have taken one or more sessions of the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program. Utilizing a narrative methodology to inquiry, semi-structured interviews were conducted to answer the central research question: What are the experiences of Chinese parents who have taken one or more Triple-P sessions, in relation to the socio-political, historical and cultural factors that influence their lives? Data analysis draws from Anti-Oppression and Critical Race Feminism theoretical frameworks. The findings in this study provides insight to the successes, and challenges/needs/concerns of parenting interventions and its practices for the Chinese community.

POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM (TRIPLE P) IN IMPROVING SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF MOTHERS WITH DEAF CHILDREN

Subjective well-being is one indicator of an individual’s or a community’s quality of life. Individual life is said to have quality, not only in terms of economic freedom to choose and achieve what one desires, or in terms of social freedom to have the things one desires, but also in terms of individual sentiments of pleasure and displeasure, contentment, and discontent. If an individual frequently experiences happy feelings and achieves satisfaction in his life, this is evidence of subjective well-being. It is believed that moms of deaf children will achieve subjective well-being, allowing them to best cater for or service their children’s needs. The fact is that some mothers of deaf children are dissatisfied with their life in general. Mothers feel that their children become financial burdens to the family. The aim of the study was to see if the positive parenting program (Triple P) could improve mothers’ subjective well-being in children with hearing impairment. Mothers with hearing-impaired children who attended SLB B Yakut Purwokerto a total of 32 participants were the research subjects. The results of the subjective well-being scale’s difference power test reveal that there are seven invalid items/statements and ten valid items/statements, implying that the ten items/statements were employed to collect subjective well-being data. The t-test of pre-test to post-test results shows that the positive parenting program is successful in improving the subjective well-being of mothers who had deaf children.

Kompetente Eltern – Glückliche Kinder?

Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund. Im internationalen Vergleich befinden sich deutsche Kinder hinsichtlich ihrer gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität (gLQ) im Mittelfeld, wobei psychische Auffälligkeiten die kindliche gLQ am stärksten einschränken. Fragestellung. Ziel war es zu untersuchen, ob Kindergartenkinder von Eltern, die am Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) teilgenommen haben, kurz- (1/‍2/‍3 Jahres-FU) und langfristige (10 Jahres-FU) positive Effekte in ihrer gLQ, gemessen mit dem KINDLR ( Ravens-Sieberer & Bullinger, 2000 ), zeigen. Methode. N = 219 Familien mit Kindergartenkindern aus dem Projekt Zukunft Familie wurden analysiert. Ergebnisse. Es konnten weder quer- noch längsschnittlich Effekte des Triple P aus Sicht der Kinder, Mütter und Väter auf die gLQ nachgewiesen werden. Sowohl Mütter als auch Väter überschätzen im Vergleich mit ihren Kindern die gLQ. Schlussfolgerungen. Das Triple P hat keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf den Verlauf der gLQ. In der zukünftigen Forschung sollten die Perspektiven von Kindern und Eltern berücksichtigt werden, da sie sich ergänzen könnten. Ein Modul in Elterntrainings, welches die gLQ fokussiert, könnte langfristige positive Effekte erzielen. Zukünftige Forschung zur positiven Beeinflussung der kindlichen gLQ ist notwendig.