Open AccessIt Takes a Village: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Community-Based Parenting Program
Author(s) -
Jeana M Holt,
Amy Mosely,
Vanessa Baldwin,
Linda L. Barnes,
Charlotte Muhammad,
Steven Cohen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
interdisciplinary journal of partnership studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2380-8969
DOI - 10.24926/ijps.v7i2.3389
Subject(s) - poverty , intervention (counseling) , general partnership , psychology , promotion (chess) , focus group , scale (ratio) , health promotion , program evaluation , applied psychology , clinical psychology , nursing , gerontology , medical education , medicine , public health , political science , psychiatry , sociology , geography , cartography , politics , anthropology , law , public administration
Background: A community-academic partnership responded to a community-voiced need to address parenting challenges while living in poverty.Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a community-based intervention that included positive parenting strategies to build and support healthy families, and behavioral health promotion.Design: Multi-method pilot studyFindings: Focus group participants (n=11) valued the program highly. There were no changes in participants' (n=36) Perceived Stress Scale scores after program completion (p>0.05, d=0.063).Conclusions: Participants were highly engaged throughout the program and requested a longer duration of the intervention to continue to build social connectivity.