PVO: Effectiveness of a Foster Parent Intervention: Results of a Trial

Sponsor

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Other)

Overall Status

Unknown status

CT.gov ID

NCT01821755

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Arms

Duration (Months)

2.3

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Problematic Behavior in Children Parent-child Problem	Behavioral: Foster parent intervention	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

63 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Foster Parent Intervention

Study Start Date :

Jan 1, 2011

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

May 1, 2013

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

May 1, 2013

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: 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	Behavioral: Foster parent intervention parent management training for foster parents, consisting of 10 individual home visits and 3 group sessions. Duration is four months
No Intervention: Control waiting-list control group who receive care-as-usual

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: 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

Behavioral: Foster parent intervention

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

No Intervention: Control

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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Change in foster child's externalizing problems 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)]
T-score for the externalizing subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Change in foster child's externalizing problems 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).]
The T-score of the Externalizing scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)

Secondary Outcome Measures

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)]
Nijmegen Questionnaire for the Parenting Situation
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).]
The Nijmegen Questionnaire for the parenting situation
Client satisfaction [At post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months later than the baseline measurment]
Dutch Questionaire for client satisfaction and effect
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)]
The Ghent Parenting Behavior Scale

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

3 Years to 12 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

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.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Brussel	Vlaams-Brabant	Belgium	1050

Sponsors and Collaborators

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Femke vanschoonlandt, PhD Student, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01821755

Other Study ID Numbers:

ID0032

First Posted:

Apr 1, 2013

Last Update Posted:

Apr 5, 2013

Last Verified:

Apr 1, 2013

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 5, 2013