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11 May 2022 - 13 May 2022
The final Consortium meeting will take place at Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia.
14 March 2022
The follow-up assessments of the randomized-controlled trial have been successfully completed in the three implementation countries.
20 January 2022
The EU Research & Innovation Magazine HORIZON mentions RISE in an article about the effects of the pandemic on child and youth mental health. The full article is available here:
And this is the video:
27 December 2021
Study Protocol article for the RCT published
The study protocol of the randomised-controlled trial (Phase 3 of RISE) was published in Trials. The peer-reviewed paper entitled “Prevention of child mental health problems through parenting interventions in Southeastern Europe (RISE): study protocol for a multi-site randomised controlled trial” is openly available here: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-021-05817-1.
02 December 2021
Start of Follow-up interviews for the RCT
Parents that participated in one of the parenting interventions (parent training, lecture on parenting) will be interviewed one last time to assess more long-term effects. In North Macedonia, the assessors started to contact the participants. Next, the follow-up assessments will also start in the other two implementation sites (Republic of Moldova and Romania).
24 September 2021
Post-assessments for RCT completed
The post-assessment interviews for the randomised-controlled trial (Phase 3) were successfully completed. In a next step, the families that participated in the parenting intervention will be interviewed for the follow-up assessment (planned for Winter 2021).
23/24 September 2021
RISE Consortium annual meeting
The RISE Consortium met for the annual meeting. The meeting specifically focused on the planning of dissemination activities. This includes peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations and dissemination activities in the three implementation countries to enhance widespread and sustained use of parenting support within existing systems.
07 September 2021
A new RISE paper has been published in Family Process. The article entitled “Preventing child mental health problems in southeastern Europe: Feasibility study (phase 1 of MOST framework)” describes the main Pre-Post results of the Feasibility study (Phase 1). The accepted version of the published article is available here: https://zenodo.org/record/5499718#.YTsXRC0Rqu4.
13 July 2021
Program delivery completed
The service delivery for the RCT has been completed: The last parent was conducted in Romania. The post-assessments are ongoing.
17 May 2021
Completion of recruitment for the RCT
The recruitment for the randomised-controlled trial has been successfully completed.
06 May 2021
Completion of program implementation in North Macedonia
In North Macedonia, the delivery of the parent groups (lecture and PLH) has been completed. In the other two implementation sites (Republic of Moldova and Romania), the program implementation is still ongoing.
29 March 2021
22 March 2021 - 26 March 2021
19 March 2021
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.581440/full
03 February 2021
Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) training for the RCT (Phase 3): The PLH booster training for the local coaches was successfully completed in the three implementation countries. In a next step, the local coaches will train the PLH facilitators in the local languages. Then, the facilitators will deliver the parent program to parents in the three countries North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova and Romania.