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The Acceptability of Parenting Strategies for Grandparents Providing Care to Their Grandchildren

Overview of attention for article published in Prevention Science, August 2013
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Title
The Acceptability of Parenting Strategies for Grandparents Providing Care to Their Grandchildren
Published in
Prevention Science, August 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11121-013-0428-0
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James N. Kirby, Matthew R. Sanders

Abstract

Despite the evidence supporting parenting programmes as a pathway to reduce and prevent childhood emotional and behavioural problems, these programmes still have low rates of uptake by families in the community. One way of increasing the participation rates of families in parenting programmes is to adopt a consumer's perspective to programme design and development. This study sought to examine whether grandparents providing regular care to their grandchildren viewed the strategies advocated in a parenting programme developed specifically for them as being acceptable and useful, and whether there were barriers to programme use. Forty-five grandparents, with an average age of 61.4 years (SD = 5.0), participated in the study. Grandparents provided between 11 and 20 h of care per week to their grandchildren, who were on average 4.5 years old (SD = 2.4), with the majority being boys (60 %). Results revealed that grandparents found the strategies promoted in the parenting programme highly acceptable and useful and were likely to use the strategies. Barriers to using specific strategies included time demands and belief that a specific strategy would not work. The implications of these findings are discussed within the context of consumer involvement in programme design and development.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 15%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Master 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Other 9 19%
Unknown 10 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 33%
Social Sciences 9 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 10 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 27 September 2016.
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#1,337,462
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Outputs from Prevention Science
#69
of 1,024 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,322
of 196,389 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Prevention Science
#2
of 15 outputs
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