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Promoting children's mental health: the European Early Promotion Project
- Authors:
- DAVIS Hilton, TSIANTIS John
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), February 2005, pp.4-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Introduces the special issue on the European Early Promotion Project (EEPP), a major project set up to address problems arising from the prevalence of psychosocial disorders in children by developing and evaluating a promotional and preventive service in a European context.
Child and family outcomes of the European Early Promotion Project
- Authors:
- DAVIS Hilton, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), February 2005, pp.63-81.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper, part of a special issue on the European Early Promotion Project (EEPP), concerns outcomes for families involved in the Project and presents data collected when the children were between 6-8 and 24 months old. A total of 824 families were recruited from the 5 countries involved. At baseline, differences were found between country samples in extent and type of need (Finnish families having the lowest risk factor rates and Serbia the highest, for example), but recruitment was generally successful in including families from the whole range of need, excluding those with the severest physical and psychiatric problems. Although not randomised, intervention families (receiving the EEPP service) were reasonably matched with comparison families (receiving usual services) on most variables initially, except in Greece, where intervention families were somewhat more at risk. At 24 months, in spite of low intensity of service provision and methodological difficulties likely to reduce effects, there was evidence, particularly in Greece, of differences in outcome favouring the intervention group, who also showed significantly higher levels of satisfaction with the intervention received. It was concluded that the service merits further exploration to assist in understanding promotional and preventative processes.