Strategies to Increase Uptake of Parent Education Programs in Preschool and School Settings to Improve Child Outcomes: A Delphi Study

Abstract

Parent education programs, offered via family–school partnerships, offer an effective means for promoting the mental health and educational functioning of children and adolescents at a whole-school level. However, these programs often have a low uptake. This study aimed to identify strategies for increasing the uptake of parent education programs within preschool and school settings. A three-round Delphi procedure was employed to obtain expert consensus on strategies that are important and feasible in educational settings. First, thirty experts rated statements identified from the literature and a stakeholder forum. Next, experts re-appraised statements, including new statements generated from the first round. Ninety statements were endorsed by ≥80% of the experts. Primary themes include strategies for program selection; strategies for increasing the accessibility of programs and the understanding of educational staff on parent engagement and child mental health; strategies for program development, promotion and delivery; as well as strategies for increasing parent and community engagement. This study offers a set of consensus strategies for improving the uptake of parent education programs within family–school partnership.

A First Step to Supporting the Coparenting Relationship and Reducing Child Behaviour Problems: A Delphi Consensus Study

“…From the Google and academic literature results (i.e., websites, books & journal articles), 175 topics were extracted. After similar items were removed by the first author, a subset of 160 items was reviewed by the other researchers for quality, a common practice in Delphi studies (e.g., Brown et al, 2021, McMaster et al, 2020Sim et al, 2021). These items comprised the topics for the Delphi rounds, which were created to be rated on a 7-point Likert scale of importance of information for participants ("Essential", "Important", "Somewhat Important", "Don't know/ Depends", "Somewhat Unimportant", "Unimportant" & "Should not be included").…”

Elementos clave para el diseño de programas de educación parental. Propuesta para la orientación familiar a través del método Delphi

“…Respecto a las limitaciones, se utilizaron técnicas de muestreo intencional, pues se precisó de participantes con conocimientos específicos (Cabero et al, 2020). Se contó con profesionales del ámbito científico y práctico, quedando representados sendos puntos de vista, como en Sim et al (2021), pero no en la misma proporción. No participaron especialistas de nacionalidad no española y las personas implicadas no llegaron a un consenso en algunos aspectos valorados.…”

“…En cuarto lugar, desde el escenario educativo, con la puesta en marcha de acciones formativas que partan del esquema general planteado podría favorecerse el involucramiento de los progenitores en la educación de sus hijas e hijos, en las dinámicas de colaboración de los centros, prestándoles apoyo durante el proceso de crianza. También facilitaría el trabajo del profesorado respecto a los y las menores, suponiendo una medida para promover la salud y el adecuado funcionamiento académico de niños, niñas y adolescentes (Sim et al, 2021). Así pues, la orientación educativa familiar y la puesta en marcha de programas de educación parental parece una buena oportunidad para reconciliar la educación familiar con la escolar, tender puentes entre ellas, pues ambos núcleos se encargan de educar, y de ahí la necesidad de que estén bien conexionados, alineados y en sintonía (Gomáriz et al, 2020).…”

Does the motivation and parents involvement affected by distance learning media during pandemic covid 19?

“…The identified strategies can be promoted to parent advocates, educators, family service providers, program developers, and policymakers as a set of broad, expert-informed recommendations, at least some of which will be applicable and of interest to each stakeholder in the public health, social, or education sectors (Sim et al, 2021). According to the findings, schools should develop stronger parent-child interactions so that parents can be more involved in their children's education.…”