Sprenger, Merel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0656-7767
van Mourik, Krista
Joosse, Erica D.
van der Veek, Shelley M. C.
Hosman, Clemens
Jonkman, Harrie
Kiefte-de Jong, Jessica C.
Gebhardt, Winifred
Crone, Matty R.
Article History
Accepted: 17 March 2025
First Online: 9 April 2025
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This work was supported by ZonMw under Grant number 554002006 and under Grant number 729300015. The authors report there are no competing interests to declare. PROSPERO registration number and name: CRD42021253462, Identifying Effective Elements in Preventive Parenting Behaviour Change Interventions: A Meta-Analysis. A separate review protocol was not prepared. Changes compared to registration: change of wording (controlled trial instead of semi-RCT), use of Hedges’ g for all measures of effect (no risk ratio), use of Cochran’s Q Chi2 test and the I² statistic only for heterogeneity assessments (not tau2), only forest plots and no drapery plots, no subgroup analysis by ethnicity and teenage parents due to lack of data, and one additional collaborator (EJ). Extracted data and R codes can be obtained by contacting the first author. Mathilde R Crone, Krista van Mourik, Clemens Hosman, Harrie Jonkman, and Winifred Gebhardt contributed to study conception and design. Literature search and data extraction was done by Merel Sprenger, Krista van Mourik, Erica D. Joosse, Shelley M.C. van der Veek, Mathilde R Crone was a third reviewer. Data analysis was done by Merel Sprenger and Mathilde R. Crone. Paper was drafted by Merel Sprenger with critical revisions from all other others.