Structured parenting programme improves emotion regulation strategies in Swedish parents of toddlers
This randomized controlled superiority trial enrolled 832 Swedish-speaking parents with children aged 1 to 2 years in Sweden. Participants were randomized to receive either a structured 4-session universal parenting programme called Little All Children in Focus or an active control consisting of four digital lectures on child development and parenthood. The primary outcomes included parenting self-efficacy, stress, coparenting quality, and emotion regulation for parents and emotion regulation strategies for their children. Secondary outcomes assessed child socioemotional development and parental engagement and retention in groups.
Main results indicated that the intervention group showed greater improvements in supportive emotion regulation strategies compared to the active control. The effect size was reported as beta equal to 3.0, with a confidence interval ranging from 0.9 to 5.0. No notable group differences emerged across the remaining outcome measures, which included parenting self-efficacy, stress, coparenting quality, and other emotion regulation metrics. Safety data regarding adverse events, serious adverse events, discontinuations, and tolerability were not reported.
Key limitations note that further evaluations must be conducted to provide a deeper understanding of the long-term impact. The study does not overstate the long-term impact of the intervention. Practice relevance demonstrates potential in promoting supportive parenting emotion regulation strategies, though the absence of reported safety data and the lack of differences in other measures warrant cautious interpretation.
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