Effectiveness of a Foster Parent Intervention: Results of a Trial

Parent-child Problem Clinical Trial

— PVO  

Official title:

Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Foster Parent Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01821755
• Other study ID #: ID0032
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 19, 2013
• Last updated: April 4, 2013
• Start date: January 2011
• Est. completion date: May 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2013
• Source: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Belgium: Youth Welfare Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The hypothesis of the study is that the intervention leads to a reduction in foster children's externalizing problems and foster parents' parenting stress and that this in turn leads to a reduction in the number of breakdowns of foster placements.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 63
• Est. completion date: May 2013
• Est. primary completion date: May 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 3 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• foster child has a borderline or clinical score on one of the small-band externalizing scales or the broad-band externalizing scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)

Exclusion Criteria:

foster child:

• has a mental retardation,

• autism,

• uses psychotropic medication in an inconsistent way,

• behavioral problems are the result of medical problems or medication, foster parents:

• have insufficient knowledge of Dutch,

• have low cognitive abilities,

• are already receiving professional support for the foster child's externalizing problems,

• are divorcing.

Moreover, foster placements were excluded if at least two of the following criteria were present:

• foster parents considered terminating the foster placement during the past two months

• were experiencing psychological distress (measured with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ; Koeter & Ormel, 1991) and defined as a score = 2),

• their foster child had a sum score above 3 (for children < 6 years) or 5 (for children = 6 years) on the critical CBCL-items.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Parent-child Problem
• Problematic Behavior in Children

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Foster parent intervention
parent management training for foster parents, consisting of 10 individual home visits and 3 group sessions. Duration is four months

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Brussel	Vlaams-Brabant

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in foster child's externalizing problems from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)	T-score for the externalizing subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)	Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement)	No
Primary	Change in foster child's externalizing problems from post-intervention to follow-up (3 months later)	The T-score of the Externalizing scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)	Assessed at post-interventio (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is about 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) and at follow-up (which is thee months later than the post-intervention measurement).	No
Secondary	Change in foster parent's parenting stress from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)	Nijmegen Questionnaire for the Parenting Situation	Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement)	No
Secondary	Change in foster mother's parenting stress from post-intervention to follow-up (3 months later)	The Nijmegen Questionnaire for the parenting situation	Assessed at post-interventio (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is about 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) and at follow-up (which is thee months later than the post-intervention measurement).	No
Secondary	Client satisfaction	Dutch Questionaire for client satisfaction and effect	At post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months later than the baseline measurment	No
Secondary	Change in foster mother's parenting behavior from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)	The Ghent Parenting Behavior Scale	Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement)	No

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