Six-years following participation in the Family Bereavement Program (FBP) participants in the program as compared to a self-study control group will have lower levels of mental health problems, lower one-year prevalence of mental disorder that meets diagnostic criteria, lower use of substances, higher levels of competence at achieving developmentally appropriate tasks in academic achievement and social competence, and better self-esteem. The effects of the FBP will be moderated by baseline levels of mental health problems and gender. Bereaved caregivers who participated in the program will also show lower levels of mental health problems as compared with controls. Program effects will be mediated by theoretical mediators targeted by the program.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
244
Caregivers, children and adolescents each received three books about coping with grief following the death of a loved one plus a syllabus to guide reading
12 session groups for caregivers and bereaved children and adolescents plus two individual sessions
Prevention Research Center Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC)
Time frame: One year
Child Behavior Checklist and Young Adult Behavior Checklist
Time frame: one year
Youth Self Report (YSR)and Young Adult Self Report (YASR)
Time frame: one year
Monitoring the Future - substance use
Time frame: one year
Rosenberg Self-esteem scale
Time frame: one year
Beck Depression Inventory for parents
Time frame: One week
Social and academic competence
Time frame: one year
Grade point average
Time frame: one year
Cortisol
Time frame: 45 minutes
Parent and child report of parenting
Time frame: One year
Grief - TRIG, Intrusive Grief Thoughts Scale, Inventory of Complicated Grief
Time frame: one month
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