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Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on August 6, 2009
Health Education Research 2009 24(6):1029-1042; doi:10.1093/her/cyp039
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Developing parenting programs to prevent child health risk behaviors: a practice model

Christine Jackson* and Denise M. Dickinson

Community Health Promotion Research, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA

* Correspondence to: C. Jackson. E-mail: cjackson{at}rti.org

Research indicates that developing public health programs to modify parenting behaviors could lead to multiple beneficial health outcomes for children. Developing feasible effective parenting programs requires an approach that applies a theory-based model of parenting to a specific domain of child health and engages participant representatives in intervention development. This article describes this approach to intervention development in detail. Our presentation emphasizes three points that provide key insights into the goals and procedures of parenting program development. These are a generalized theoretical model of parenting derived from the child development literature, an established eight-step parenting intervention development process and an approach to integrating experiential learning methods into interventions for parents and children. By disseminating this framework for a systematic theory-based approach to developing parenting programs, we aim to support the program development efforts of public health researchers and practitioners who recognize the potential of parenting programs to achieve primary prevention of health risk behaviors in children.

Received on April 2, 2009; accepted on July 9, 2009


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