Effectiveness of a Foster Parent Intervention: Results of a Trial

NCT01821755 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: ID0032
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 63
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• 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)

• 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).

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Change in foster parent's parenting stress from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)

  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)

• Change in foster mother's parenting stress from post-intervention to follow-up (3 months later)

  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).

• Client satisfaction

  At post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months later than the baseline measurment

• Change in foster mother's parenting behavior from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)

  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)

Study Arms (2)

Behavioral: Foster parent intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Behavioral: Foster parent intervention

Control

NO INTERVENTION

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

Interventions

Foster parent intervention BEHAVIORAL

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

Behavioral: Foster parent intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 12 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• 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)

You may not qualify if:

• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel: lead

Study Sites (1)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Brussels, Vlaams-Brabant, 1050, Belgium

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD Student

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 19, 2013
• First Posted: April 1, 2013
• Study Start: January 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2013
• Study Completion: May 1, 2013
• Last Updated: April 5, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-04

Locations

BE (1)