Change in caregiver depression in response to parent training: genetic moderation of intervention effects

Steven R H Beach; Gene H Brody; Steven M Kogan; Robert A Philibert; Yi-Fu Chen; Man Kit Lei

doi:10.1037/a0013562

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Change in caregiver depression in response to parent training: genetic moderation of intervention effects

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Change in caregiver depression in response to parent training: genetic moderation of intervention effects

Steven R H Beach, Gene H Brody, Steven M Kogan, Robert A Philibert, Yi-Fu Chen and Man Kit Lei

Journal of family psychology, Vol.23(1), pp.112-117

02/2009

DOI: 10.1037/a0013562

PMID: 19203166

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Abstract

A previous report in the Journal of Family Psychology (S. R. H. Beach et al., 2008) described the results of a randomized prevention trial contrasting families who participated in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF, a preventive intervention for rural African American parents and their 11-year-olds) with control families. This brief report examines a novel contextual variable, child's genetic risk status for negative affect and poor self-control, as a moderator of treatment effects on caregiver's depression. Genetic data were obtained from (N = 109) youths' saliva samples. The primary study hypothesis of differential program impact on caregiver depression as a function of youth genetic risk was confirmed. Among caregivers with initially elevated scores on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies--Depression Scale (L. S. Radloff, 1977), SAAF participation was associated with greater impact on depressive symptoms among those whose children were at genetic risk, suggesting that effect size estimates based on full samples may underestimate the impact of prevention programs on at-risk subgroups, whose response is particularly important to understand and to target.

Rural Population - statistics & numerical data

Depression - epidemiology

Humans

Parents

Male

Depression - genetics

Mothers - psychology

African Americans - statistics & numerical data

Single Parent

Adolescent

Adult

Female

Surveys and Questionnaires

Depression - therapy

Child

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Title: Subtitle: Change in caregiver depression in response to parent training: genetic moderation of intervention effects
Creators: Steven R H Beach - Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. srhbeach@uga.edu
Gene H Brody
Steven M Kogan
Robert A Philibert
Yi-Fu Chen
Man Kit Lei
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of family psychology, Vol.23(1), pp.112-117
DOI: 10.1037/a0013562
PMID: 19203166
NLM abbreviation: J Fam Psychol
ISSN: 0893-3200
eISSN: 1939-1293
Publisher: United States
Grant note: 5 R01AA012768-08 / NIAAA NIH HHS 5 R01DA01923-04S1 / NIDA NIH HHS 3 R01AA012768-08S1 / NIAAA NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 02/2009
Academic Unit: Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984003472802771

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