HIckey, Grainne and McGilloway, Sinead and Leckey, Yvonne and Stokes, Ann
(2018)
A Universal Early Parenting Education Intervention
in Community-Based Primary Care Settings:
Development and Installation Challenges.
Education Sciences, 8 (178).
ISSN 2227-7102
Abstract
Prevention and early intervention programmes, which aim to educate and support parents
and young children in the earliest stages of the family lifecycle, have become an increasingly
popular policy strategy for tackling intergenerational disadvantage and developmental inequality.
Evidence-based, joined-up services are recommended as best practice for achieving optimal outcomes
for parents and their children; however, there are persistent challenges to the development, adoption
and installation of these kinds of initiatives in community-based primary health care settings.
In this paper, we present a description of the design and installation of a multi-stakeholder
early parenting education and intervention service model called the Parent and Infant (PIN)
programme. This new programme is delivered collaboratively on a universal, area-wide basis
through routine primary care services and combines standardised parent-training with other
group-based supports designed to educate parents, strengthen parenting skills and wellbeing
and enhance developmental outcomes in children aged 0–2 years. The programme design was
informed by local needs analysis and piloting to establish an in-depth understanding of the local
context. The findings demonstrate that a hospitable environment is central to establishing interagency
parenting education and supports. Partnership, relationship-building and strategic leadership are
vital to building commitment and buy-in for this kind of innovation and programme implementation.
A graduated approach to implementation which provides training/education and coaching as well as
organisational and administrative supports for practice change, are also important in creating an
environment conducive to collaboration. Further research into the impact, implementation and
cost-effectiveness of the PIN programme will help to build an understanding of what works for
parents and infants, as well as identifying lessons for the development and implementation of other
similar complex prevention and intervention programmes elsewhere. This kind of research coupled
with the establishment of effective partnerships involving service providers, parents, researchers and
policy makers, is necessary to meeting the challenge of improving family education and enhancing
the capacity of family services to help promote positive outcomes for children.
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Article
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©2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Cite as: Hickey, G.; McGilloway, S.; Leckey, Y.; Stokes, A. A Universal Early Parenting Education Intervention in Community-Based Primary Care Settings: Development and Installation Challenges. Educ. Sci. 2018, 8, 178. |
| Keywords: |
parent education; child and family service; collaboration; interagency; evidence-based
practice; implementation; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: |
13202 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040178 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Sinéad McGilloway
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Aug 2020 13:59 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Education Sciences |
| Publisher: |
MDPI |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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