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Martin Bergström. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

Martin Bergström

Senior lecturer | Associate Professor | PhD in Social Work

Martin Bergström. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

Video feedback combined with coordination meetings in school to reduce early disruptive behaviour problems (DBP)—A 1-year follow-up randomised controlled trial

Videofeedback kombinerat med samordningsmöten i skolan med syfte att minska tidiga beteendeproblem (DBP) - 1-årsuppföljning av en randomiserad kontrollerad studie

Author

  • Stina Balldin
  • Martin Bergström
  • Ingegerd Wirtberg
  • Ulf Axberg

Summary, in English

Aim: To compare long-term effects of a systemic school-based intervention, Marte Meo and Coordination Meetings (MAC), targeting 3- to 12-year-old children display- ing disruptive behaviour problems (DBP) in preschool or school, and service as usual (SAU). In addition, to examine whether social status (SS) affected the outcomes. Methods: In a randomised controlled design, teachers' and parents' ratings of 99 chil- dren's DBPs and mental health were collected before intervention and 1 year after post-test.
Results: A significant time effect in school was found in both interventions, notably larger than at post-test in an earlier study. There was no difference between groups, SAU catching up with MAC. From teachers' reports, 53–70% of the children showed a positive change. SS did not affect the outcomes.
Conclusion: School provides an already established setting to detect and intervene when young children begin to display DBP. Even if a long-term positive change in MAC did show more rapidly than in SAU, both interventions were equivalent for children from diverse social backgrounds.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work
  • Department of Psychology

Publishing year

2021-09-15

Language

English

Pages

3284-3293

Publication/Series

Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica

Volume

110

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • disruptive behaviour problems
  • Marte Meo
  • randomised controlled trial
  • systemic school intervention
  • video feedback

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-2227