چکیده (انگلیسی):

The “Learning together, growing with family” programme is targeted to at-risk parents and children from 6 to 11 years old, with a preventive focus on promoting positive parent-child relationships.In this study, we examined the quality of the programme implementation and its influence on theprogramme results in a sample of 425 parents and 138 facilitators drawn from the first trial. Mixedmethods were used, consisting of: parental self-reports on parenting dimensions, professionals’ recordson parental attendance and appraisals on six topics of the implementation process, and focus groupdiscussions in which facilitators reported on the initial steps of the implementation. Results showed ahigh quality of implementation with respect to the group facilitator and the programme organizationfactors, followed by the coordination with services and the support facilities offered to participantsand, finally, by the factors of fidelity and prior organization steps. Results of the focus groups con-firmed that the prior steps were challenging and offered the more effective strategies. Better qualityin the implementation factors predicted better parenting styles and parental competencies after theprogramme, as well as a higher attendance rate. In sum, this study demonstrates the importance ofgood implementation in at-risk contexts and provides some clues as to the key elements that moderateprogramme effectiveness.