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Intensive home visiting program for multiproblem families: Effectiveness, mediators and moderators of effects

Intensive home visiting program for multiproblem families: Effectiveness, mediators and moderators of effects - Effectiveness of IPT

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON36847
Enrollment
144
Registered
2006-07-11
Start date
2006-12-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-08-12

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

probleemgedrag van ouders en/of kinderen behavorial problems parenting problems

Interventions

Families are random assigned to treatments already available: care as usual of Intentive home visiting.

Sponsors

Zorgonderzoek Nederland (ZON)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Age
2 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The inclusion criteria are: (1) child age between 4 and 18 years, (2) multiple problems in the family (based on diagnostic information from clinicians), (3) parents (or care givers ) are sufficiently motivated to start treatment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: referral to other organisations than the four participating organisations

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Information will be obtained by using multiple sources of information (parents, therapist, teacher, and child, if older than 9 years) and multiple methods (questionnaires, interviews and observations). All of the instruments are well-established, have been used often both in the USA and in the Netherlands and have excellent psychometric properties. Primairy outcomes: 1. parental behavior: -Parental Dimensions Inventory (Thomas and Power, 1987) : responsiveness, support and consistency; -harsh discipline (Fuligny & Eccles, 1993) -psychological control (Steinberg et al. 1992 and Barber, 1996) -behavioral control (Barber, 1996 ) and -in only 30 families: observations with revealed differences task (parent-child discussion: rating scales of the above mentioned dimensions of child rearing) 2. quality of the parent-child relation -Conflictscale (Dekovic, 1999) -acceptance scale of Parental Stress Index (PSI) (Abidin, 1983) -attachment to the child (PSI- Abidin, 1983) -attachment to the parents (Inventory of Parent Attachment) -Communication with parents (Olweson, 1990).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Secundary outcomes: 1. problem behavior of the child (CBCL-parent, YSR-child if at least 9 years old, TRF-teacher), 2. academic competence of the child (teacher report of school attendance, GPA), 3. social competence of the child (CBSK reported by parent and child). To answer the second research question (mediation): parental beliefs (Effects on development- Dekovic 1996) and parental confidence (PSI-competencescale (Abidin-1983). To answer the third research question (moderation): characteristics of the participants (demographics, initial level of problems, parental psychopathology (ASR-Achenbach), and characteristics of the treatment (location, number of completed sessions, Quality of the therapist- education and experience, satisfaction with the treatment, treatment adherence.

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)