TY - JOUR T1 - Evidence relating to the effectiveness of community-based interventions to improve the quality of life for children of parents with serious mental illness is weak; better quality studies are required JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 10 LP - 11 DO - 10.1136/eb-2014-101822 VL - 18 IS - 1 AU - Andrea Reupert AU - Darryl Maybery Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/18/1/10.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Bee P, Bower P, Byford S, et al. The clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of community-based interventions aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life in children of parents with serious mental illness: a systematic review. Health Technol Assess 2014;18:1–250.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed While there is an urgent need for interventions for improving the quality of life for children whose parents have a mental illness, at present there is a paucity of rigorous evidence to guide practice. Research is required that incorporates user-centred values, short-term and long-term child and parenting outcomes, high-quality cost data, and in-depth qualitative studies of the views of parents and children. Intervention designs and outcome measures need to be child centred. Given that one in five young people have a parent with a mental illness1 and that between 44% and 74% of these children are at a higher risk … ER -