Efficacy of Parenting Programs to Reduce Parenting Burdens in Multicultural Families: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: we comprehensively investigated and summarized the current situation of parenting programs for multicultural families in south korea.methods: two researchers independently searched and selected 16 studies on parenting programs for multicul-tural families and analyzed the major dependent variables, including parenting stress, parenting efficacy, parenting attitude, and parental satisfaction, in a meta-analysis of parenting stress and parenting efficacy (n=6 each). this study was dealt with a bayesian meta-analysis to perform examine the effect sizes for parenting stress and parenting efficacy. sensitivity to prior distributions was evaluated before the bayesian meta-analysis, and an optimal prior distribution was selected based on the watanabe–akaike information criterion.results: the combined effect sizes for parenting stress and parenting efficacy were found to be >1 in both the frequentist and bayesian meta-analyses, indicating that the parenting programs for multicultural families in south korea are highly effective.conclusion: these basic data can facilitate the expansion of customized social services for reducing parenting burdens in multicultural families.