Evaluation of the implementation of the family training and support program with Peruvian families

Abstract

The Family Education and Support Program (Hidalgo et al., 2011) consists on the promotion of positive parental role, having the improvement of parental competences and skills through a participatory and experiential methodology as a main purpose. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the said program in the province of San Martín, Peru. For this purpose, 59 participants were evaluated through a pretest-postest design from just a group. The evaluated dimensions were perceived parental competence, educational attitudes and quality of child life. We obtained meaningful changes, in the expected sense, in all the evaluated dimensions. On the other hand, we did not find the presence of any moderating variable that clearly determined a participant profile obtaining greater benefits from the intervention, due likely to the important impact the program had in all parents.