Dialogical Family Guidance PostDoc Study

NCT06322511 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: HUS/7626/2023
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This new family intervention, called Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG) is developed to target family needs especially in families with a child with neurodevelopmental disorders. PhD study showed, that this intervention is functioning with this target group. Participants (families) experienced that they got information, guidance to ordinary life and that the DFG-therapists were listening to them and above all, helping with individual problems and questions. DFG include six meetings and professionals need to attend on a 3-day long education before using this intervention.

Conditions

Family Dynamics; Family Relations; Family Support

Keywords

neurodevelopmental disorders; family health; family functionality; family support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• FAFHES

  FAFHES (Family Function, Health, and Social Support-questionnaire). The name of the questionnaire explains the content of this questionnaire that includes three sections: family functionality (19 items), family health (23 items), family support provided by professionals (21 items). Likert scale is used with ranging from 1-6 (1= disagree totally......6=I agree totally).

  0 months and 3 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• DFG-questionnaire

  3 months

• SDQ-p questionnaire (Strengths and difficulties regarding the child)

  0 months and 3 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

These families receive Dialogical family guidance, including six meetings (during 3 months) within the intervention manual proceedings. Parents fill the questionnaires before and after the intervention.

Behavioral: Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG)

comparative group

NO INTERVENTION

These families (parents in the family) give responses how they manage in ordinary life with their child with neurodevelopmental disorders. These families do not receive the intervention.

Interventions

Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG) BEHAVIORAL

DFG is family intervention including six meetings with family members. The individual needs and questions of each family are discussed and issues parents bring up are seemed as important.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 4 Years - 13 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Families with a child with clinical diagnosis within neurodevelopmental ambrella (ADHD, Tourette, Autism disorder, OCD...).
• the child must be between 4-13 years.

You may not qualify if:

• Families who do not understand finnish language (because they can not fill the questionnaires and professionals offering DFG are all finnish speaking). At least one parent needs to talk finnish.
• Families who are not motivated to receive DFG.
• Families who do not have a child with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tampere University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Helsinki university hospital

Helsinki, 00029, Finland

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Diana Cavonius-Rintahaka, PhD

  Tampere University, Finland

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Diana Cavonius-Rintahaka, PhD

CONTACT

+358 405551511; diana.cavonius@gmail.com

Anna Liisa Aho, PhD

CONTACT

+358 401901448; annaliisa.aho@tuni.fi

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER
• Masking Details: Families include both parents and children. Parents fill the questionnaires, but all family members attend on the meetings during the intervention (six meetings).
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD

Model Details: Families attending the study Group I: receives Dialogical Family Guidance intervention and they fill questionnaires before and after the intervention. Group II: Families do not receive Dialogical Family Guidance (but belong to the same focus group)

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 7, 2024
• First Posted: March 21, 2024
• Study Start: January 2, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2027
• Last Updated: March 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FI (1)