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The problem
Intervention: Comprehensive assessment and identification of the relational pathways (parenting stress) linking maternal trauma to child outcomes, with identification of protective factors including maternal warmth, school support, and religious coping
Who it was tested with: 200 Syrian refugee mother-child dyads with children aged 6-11 years living in Mardin, Türkiye; subsample of 30 dyads for qualitative interviews.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Mediation analyses were conducted using bootstrapped indirect effects while controlling for maternal depression, maternal anxiety, child age, and child gender" with qualitative interviews exploring "trauma experiences, parenting stress, attachment-related behaviors, and child emotional and cognitive functioning." The study identifies parenting stress as a significant relational mechanism through which maternal trauma affects children's outcomes, suggesting where interventions should focus.
Cross-sectional design prevents establishment of causality; single-location study limits generalizability; quantitative measures rely on maternal and child self-report without behavioral observation of parent-child interactions; study does not experimentally test interventions
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