Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Family-Centered Treatments on the Behavioral Consequences of Iranian Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Family is known as the core of child and adolescent care and it plays an important role in the treatment of behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of FCI on the behavioral consequences of Iranian children and adolescents. This study is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all published Persian or English articles (during the years 2011 to 2020) in the field of FCI in the Iranian child and adolescent community using an internal database such as SID, Iran Medex, MagIran, Civilica, Irandoc, and English Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed, Science Direct and Google Scholar by combining the appropriate words. In this study, the Standard Mean Difference index (SMD) and STATA software were used to analyze the data. Among the 103 articles found in the initial search, only 38 articles (10 (26%) articles on adolescents, 28 (74%) articles on children) were eligible for inclusion in the study. The SMD index of FCI compared to the control group is generally equal to 1.60 with a 95% Confidence Interval (CI) (1.31 to 1.90) and in the child sample equal to 1.39 with a 95% CI (1.31 to 1.90). The adolescent sample was reported to be 2.18 with a 95% CI (1.44 to 2.91). The results of this study showed that FCI in children and especially Iranian adolescents have good therapeutic efficacy.