Matching the therapeutic approach to children?s emotional and behavioural needs: a comparison of different ways of helping

Completed

• Conditions: Childhood conduct problems; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Conduct disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN25252940
• Lead Sponsor: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-07-15
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

1. Phase 1: Children aged 5-10 years of age, rated in the clinical range on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) conduct problems subscale or the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) externalising subscale by either their parent or teacher
2. Phase 2: All children who remain in the clinical range of either of these scales according to one or more informant at the end of phase 1 intervention (parent training)

Browne (1995) recommends that in a pilot study 30 are needed in each group to provide reasonably narrow confidence intervals for the standard deviations required for a power calculation. The 80% upper one-sided confidence limit will be used when determining power for a full scale RCT.

Exclusion Criteria

Phase 1: Non-English speaking families
Phase 2: Moderate learning disability which indicated RICAP would not be an appropriate intervention

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified