Effectiveness of a Foster Parent Intervention: Results of a Trial

NCT ID: NCT01821755

Last Updated: 2013-04-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 63 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-05-31

Brief 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.

Conditions

Problematic Behavior in Children; Parent-child Problem

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Behavioral: Foster parent intervention

Foster parents receive a foster parent intervention consisting of 10 individual home visits and three group sessions. Duration of the intervention is four months

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Foster parent intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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

Control

waiting-list control group who receive care-as-usual

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Foster parent intervention

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

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 3 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Femke vanschoonlandt

PhD Student

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Brussels, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Countries

Belgium

Other Identifiers

ID0032

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id