Ouders ondersteunen om angst bij kinderen te verminderen

Parent-focused interventions hold promise for reducing child anxiety, but their content varies greatly, and little is known about what the most effective intervention content is. We estimated the effects of parent-focused interventions on child anxiety and identified the most effective combinations of intervention components. We searched PsycINFO, Medline, and Web of Science in October 2022 for randomized trials on parent-focused interventions to reduce children's anxiety. We identified 26 studies, with data from 4,098 participants. Parent-focused interventions had a significant effect on children's anxiety. Interventions used seven distinct components. No significant differential effects for individual components were found, but all clusters of components that produced significant effects contained a behavioral component. Adding cognitive and emotional components to behavioral components seemed beneficial. This meta-analysis highlights the potential of parent-focused interventions for children's anxiety, and of behavioral components in particular.