Table 1 Definition of outcomes
Topic | Definition | Outcomes of interest |
|---|---|---|
Child social and emotional wellbeing | Interventions designed to improve, promote and optimise child behavioural outcomes, positive social and/or emotional wellbeing and reduce mental illness in children. | - Externalizing behavioural problems (e.g. oppositional defiance, antisocial behaviour, and aggression) - Internalising behaviour problems (e.g. anxiety, depression) - Infant attachment behaviour |
Infant sleep disorders | Behavioural and/or education interventions that aim to prevent or improve sleep problems. | - Difficulties falling or staying asleep - Excessive total sleep time - Night waking - Settling problems |
Home learning environment | Interventions that aim to improve the home learning environment of children by promoting positive intellectual and social development in the child. | - Any relevant cognitive areas (i.e. literacy, pre-literacy, numeracy, pre-numeracy, language and communication, and/or general cognitive functioning). - Frequency of reading, attitudes towards reading - Literacy scores - Language ability - Vocabulary |
Parent mental health | Interventions that aim to (i) prevent mental illness and promote positive mental health in parents or (ii) improve outcomes of existing mental health problems. | - Rates of diagnoses of mental health disorders (e.g. anxiety, depression) - Self-report on mental health symptom scales (e.g. anxiety, depression) |