Table 6 Reasons for participating in a prevention study

Prevention

- Parents recognize their own depression/anxiety in offspring

#24 “Seeing that we did recognize those things in him [son, 11]. Before this [participation in prevention study] we already thought, let’s take him to the doctor. ‘Could it be that childhood depression, or the like, exists?’”

- Help, support for parent and child

#19 "If she learns to be more resilient etc., that can only be good"

#1 “Now she lets us know…she can’t stop herself going over things in her head, ‘how can I stop this?’… I wanted support for her so badly and that’s why we signed up”

- Prevention of child problems

#15 “I want to have them checked preventively. I want someone to tell me that everything is still normal, given the circumstances, or that they need treatment themselves in whatever way”

Helping others

#19 “Those were the most important reasons. Yeah, I think, when I tell my story and it helps other people who suffer encounter the same problems, then …”

Research is important

#10 “We both were researchers, so you know… it’s.. hard to collect data – I call it data, we studied other things – … it is very important that research on this topic is conducted”

Child likes to participate

#9 “My son found it very interesting, and he wanted to participate really badly”