Educational Support Interventions for Children in Care

NCT ID: NCT02217072

Last Updated: 2014-08-15

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

190 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-09-30

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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A Randomized controlled study of two different educational support interventions developed for children in foster care (age 6-13).

Detailed Description

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A Randomized controlled study of two different educational support interventions developed for children in foster care (age 6-13). One intervention is school-based and involves a team of professionals at the child's school, and the other is a home-based tutoring intervention provided by the foster parents. The participants in the study are assigned to three groups (the two intervention groups and control group). Based on power calculation we aim to recruit approximately 180-200 foster children, their foster parents and public schools to participate in the study.

Conditions

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Learning Problems

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control

Control

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Parents as Tutors

Educational support intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Parents as Tutors

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A home-based intervention, comprising a structured tutoring programme that allows foster parents to systematically support the foster child's school performance. Foster parents will attend an introductory tutor training seminar at which they will be introduced to relevant theory on learning and counselled on tutoring practice. The intervention itself is designed to provide approximately three hours per week of individual home-based tutoring for a period of 40 weeks.

school intervention

Educational support intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

School intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A school-based intervention that builds on the promising Swedish programme SkolFam, but is adapted to a Danish school context. The two main components of the programme are a) comprehensive assessment of the child, involving testing of the child's cognitive and academic abilities and difficulties as well as an evaluation of the child's behaviour, school-related social relations and well-being, and b) a systematic and individually targeted intervention plan, made in collaboration between a psychologist, the teachers, and a special educational teacher at the school (e.g., the reading counsellor).

Interventions

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School intervention

A school-based intervention that builds on the promising Swedish programme SkolFam, but is adapted to a Danish school context. The two main components of the programme are a) comprehensive assessment of the child, involving testing of the child's cognitive and academic abilities and difficulties as well as an evaluation of the child's behaviour, school-related social relations and well-being, and b) a systematic and individually targeted intervention plan, made in collaboration between a psychologist, the teachers, and a special educational teacher at the school (e.g., the reading counsellor).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Parents as Tutors

A home-based intervention, comprising a structured tutoring programme that allows foster parents to systematically support the foster child's school performance. Foster parents will attend an introductory tutor training seminar at which they will be introduced to relevant theory on learning and counselled on tutoring practice. The intervention itself is designed to provide approximately three hours per week of individual home-based tutoring for a period of 40 weeks.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age 6-13
* fostercare placement
* placement in a participating municipality

Exclusion Criteria

* persuasive developmental disorders
* special education students
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

13 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ministry of Social Affairs

AMBIG

Sponsor Role collaborator

VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Misja Eiberg, Ph.d. fellow

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research

Locations

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SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research

Copenhagen, , Denmark

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Denmark

Central Contacts

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Misja Eiberg

Role: CONTACT

+45 33480819

Helle Hansen

Role: CONTACT

+45 33480927

Facility Contacts

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Misja Eiberg

Role: primary

Helle Hansen

Role: backup

+45 33480927

Other Identifiers

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SFI 2691

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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