Topic | Strengths | Limitations | Neutral comments |
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General acceptability | Generally “nice”, “important”, “helpful” or “encouraging” (N = 21) | Very tiring / time consuming (N = 17); most contents already familiar or self-evident (N = 8); expectations not met (N = 2) | Parents: Make future participants aware of time consuming nature (N = 6), of focus on children (N = 5), that they may benefit more if not currently depressed (N = 2) |
Parents: Would recommend intervention to other families (N = 18); interactivity (N = 6) | |||
Motivation for participating | Contributing to a research project (N = 3) | ||
Parents: Supporting their children (N = 10) | |||
Talking about depression | Opportunity to exchange experiences with other affected families (N = 10) | Children: Talked about depression with friends through intervention (N = 11) | |
Children: Positive experience (N = 21); most helpful aspect of intervention (N = 8) | |||
Parents: Easier to broach the subject of depression (N = 9); reduced guilt (N = 5); external source of information (N = 3) | |||
Children’s knowledge of depression (children’s view) | Gained new knowledge from intervention (N = 10) | Not learned anything new (N = 2) | |
Children’s coping with stress (children’s view) | Most helpful aspect of the intervention (N = 15); more in control of thoughts (N = 13); more relaxed now (N = 8); gained new knowledge (N = 6) | Not learned anything new (N = 7); could not control feelings any better (N = 7) | |
Parenting skills | Family activities increased as a result (N = 8); practised parenting strategies (N = 6); gave more attention and praise (N = 3); questioned automatic parenting behaviour (N = 2); structure and repetition of already familiar ideas (N = 2) | Children: Did not believe parenting style had changed (N = 11) | Had no prior expectations of learning anything new (N = 2) |
Implementation in everyday life | Intervention implemented (N = 10) | Not automatic enough (N = 8) | |
Children: Implemented stress coping strategies (N = 14) and would recommend them to a friend (N = 13); initial response to stress improved (N = 9) | |||
Parents: Family activities implemented (N = 4); increased self-reflection (N = 4); parenting strategies (N = 2) | |||
Logistics | Size of groups (N = 32); time slot (N = 32); location (N = 34) | Parents: Too intense (N = 6); too much homework (N = 2); not enough information and challenges (N = 3); did not adequately involve the whole family (N = 3) | Online content welcome but not necessary (N = 5); consistency of group leader important (N = 3) |
Children: Group separation (N = 15) | |||
Parents: Amount of information provided (N = 12) |