An interventional study of Foster parent intervention in Problematic Behavior in Children and Parent-child Problem, sponsored by Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Status unknown at 1 site in Belgium. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 12 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-04-05.
Sponsored by Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
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.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel is the lead sponsor of 154 studies on the registry; 43 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
foster child:
Moreover, foster placements were excluded if at least two of the following criteria were present:
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
waiting-list control group who receive care-as-usual
parent management training for foster parents, consisting of 10 individual home visits and 3 group sessions. Duration is four months
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)
Time frame: 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)
Time frame: 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).
Change in foster parent's parenting stress from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)
Nijmegen Questionnaire for the Parenting Situation
Time frame: 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)
The Nijmegen Questionnaire for the parenting situation
Time frame: 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
Dutch Questionaire for client satisfaction and effect
Time frame: 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)
The Ghent Parenting Behavior Scale
Time frame: 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)
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