ORAL PRESENTATION Open Access Parents and prevention research - is it possible? A systematic review of the literature Susan Paxton * , Chelsea Cornell From 2013 ANZAED Conference: Inspiring Change: Person and Context Melbourne, Australia. 23-24 August 2013 Parents have been identified as playing an important role in promoting either risk or protective factors for the development of body image or eating problems in their children. The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature on eating disorder prevention programs that include a component for parents. A range of academic databases were searched for English language publications between January 1992 and April 2012. 443 novel records were screened for eligibility. Studies needed to meet three inclusion criteria: 1) Delivery of a prevention program designed to reduce eating disorder or body image dissatisfaction in children (2) Some program component specifically targeted to parents (3) Implementation and reporting of an outcome measure to evaluate the prevention program. 18 papers were included in the review. Although three studies attempted to compare parental involvement with student-only interventions, very small sample sizes and a lack of parental engagement hampered statistical analyses. The majority of studies incorporated a minimal parental component in school-based interventions for pre- or young adolescents, without thorough evaluation of impact or effects. While research involving parents is well developed in prevention of obesity and externalising disorders, there are significant gaps in the eating disorders field. Researchers need to focus on effec- tive parental engagement and rigorous evaluation design before parents can be optimally involved in prevention research. Published: 14 November 2013 doi:10.1186/2050-2974-1-S1-O39 Cite this article as: Paxton and Cornell: Parents and prevention research - is it possible? A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Eating Disorders 2013 1(Suppl 1):O39. Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • Thorough peer review • No space constraints or color ﬁgure charges • Immediate publication on acceptance • Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholar • Research which is freely available for redistribution Submit your manuscript at www.biomedcentral.com/submit * Correspondence: [email protected] La Trobe University, Australia Paxton and Cornell Journal of Eating Disorders 2013, 1(Suppl 1):O39 http://www.jeatdisord.com/content/1/S1/O39 © 2013 Paxton and Cornell; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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ORAL PRESENTATION Open Access

Parents and prevention research - is it possible?A systematic review of the literatureSusan Paxton*, Chelsea Cornell

From 2013 ANZAED Conference: Inspiring Change: Person and ContextMelbourne, Australia. 23-24 August 2013

Parents have been identified as playing an important rolein promoting either risk or protective factors for thedevelopment of body image or eating problems in theirchildren. The purpose of this study was to systematicallyreview the literature on eating disorder preventionprograms that include a component for parents. A rangeof academic databases were searched for English languagepublications between January 1992 and April 2012. 443novel records were screened for eligibility. Studies neededto meet three inclusion criteria: 1) Delivery of a preventionprogram designed to reduce eating disorder or body imagedissatisfaction in children (2) Some program componentspecifically targeted to parents (3) Implementation andreporting of an outcome measure to evaluate the preven-tion program. 18 papers were included in the review.Although three studies attempted to compare parentalinvolvement with student-only interventions, very smallsample sizes and a lack of parental engagement hamperedstatistical analyses. The majority of studies incorporated aminimal parental component in school-based interven-tions for pre- or young adolescents, without thoroughevaluation of impact or effects. While research involvingparents is well developed in prevention of obesity andexternalising disorders, there are significant gaps in theeating disorders field. Researchers need to focus on effec-tive parental engagement and rigorous evaluation designbefore parents can be optimally involved in preventionresearch.

Published: 14 November 2013

doi:10.1186/2050-2974-1-S1-O39Cite this article as: Paxton and Cornell: Parents and prevention research- is it possible? A systematic review of the literature. Journal of EatingDisorders 2013 1(Suppl 1):O39.

Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Centraland take full advantage of:

• Convenient online submission

• Thorough peer review

• No space constraints or color figure charges

• Immediate publication on acceptance

• Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholar

• Research which is freely available for redistribution

Submit your manuscript at www.biomedcentral.com/submit* Correspondence: [email protected]

La Trobe University, Australia

Paxton and Cornell Journal of Eating Disorders 2013, 1(Suppl 1):O39http://www.jeatdisord.com/content/1/S1/O39

© 2013 Paxton and Cornell; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, andreproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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