Triple P-Positive Parenting programs: The folly of basing social policy on underpowered flawed studies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Coyne, James C ^a,b   Kwakkenbos, Linda ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confirmatory bias; Conflict of interest; Dissemination; Meta analysis; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY THERAPY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; TRIPLE P POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM;

HUMANS; PARENTING;

EID: 84872177792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-11     Document Type: Note

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