Video feedback combined with coordination meetings in school to reduce early disruptive behaviour problems (DBP)—A 1‐year follow‐up randomised controlled trial.

The study compares the long-term effects of the Marte Meo intervention method combined with coordination meetings (MAC) involving regular services (service as usual, SAU) for children with behavioural problems at kindergarten and school age (3–12 years). In addition, any differences in effects between children from families with different socioeconomic status (SES) are investigated.

The teachers in the study reported that over half of the children in both groups (MAC and SAU) showed positive behavioural changes after one year. For the MAC group, 54-62% of the children showed positive changes, while the numbers for the children in the SAU group were 53-70%. The parents reported lower frequencies of positive changes, 7-36% in the MAC group and 4-30% in the SAU group, respectively. The results show that there was no significant difference between the outcomes of the two intervention methods. The social status of the children's family had little impact on the results measured in the study.

The researchers conducted a randomised controlled trial to compare the two Marte Meo intervention methods combined with coordination meetings (MAC) and regular services (SAU). 99 children from kindergartens and schools in Sweden participated in the study. To assess the behavioural problems of the children, the researchers used questionnaires completed by the children's teachers and parents at the start of the study and one year after the different methods were implemented. Static analyses were then used to investigate effects and differences between the two methods.

Balldin, S., Bergström, M., Wirtberg, I., & Axberg, U. (2021). “Video feedback combined with coordination meetings in school to reduce early disruptive behaviour problems (DBP)—A 1‐year follow‐up randomised controlled trial”. Acta Paediatrica, 110(12):3284-3293.