Family Telehealth Project for Foster Care Youth

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Parent-Child Relations; Communication
• Interventions: Behavioral: Family-based Telehealth Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04488523
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of an existing family based intervention to be delivered via telehealth to child welfare-involved (CWI) youth and their caregiver of origin.

Detailed Description

The goal of this study is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of an existing empirically supported, family-based affect management intervention to be delivered via telehealth. There are two versions of this intervention: 1) a dyadic version to be delivered to CWI youth and their caregiver of origin, and 2) a caregiver-only version to be delivered to any caregiver (including kinship caregivers) of a CWI youth. The study involves iteratively adapting the intervention with feedback from youth and caregiver participants and stakeholder partners, as well as evaluating the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the intervention.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-07-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-07-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-07-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-07-28
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-24
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-28
• Primary Completion: 2025-06
• Study Completion: 2025-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

Eligible youth:

• Will be between the ages of 12 and 18 years
• Will have ongoing child welfare involvement
• Will be proficient in English
• Will have no cognitive impairment which would preclude provision of informed assent

Eligible caregivers for dyadic version:

• Will be the caregiver of origin for the enrolled youth
• Will be proficient in English or Spanish
• Will be cognitively capable of providing informed consent for themselves and their youth

Eligible caregivers for caregiver-only version:

• Will be the caregiver of a youth, between the ages of 12 and 18 years, with ongoing child welfare involvement
• Will be proficient in English or Spanish
• Will have no cognitive impairment which would preclude provision of informed consent

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Exclusion Criteria

• Caregivers whose rights were terminated due to substantiated abuse or neglect.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Family-based Telehealth Treatment	Family-based Telehealth Intervention	A family-based telehealth intervention.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale	Three months post-intervention.	To measure caregiver and youth affect management skills. Scores range from 36 to 180, with higher scores indicating greater problems with emotion regulation.
Parent-adolescent General Communication Scale (PPAC)	Immediately after the intervention.	To measure caregiver-youth communication. The PPAC measures both positive and negative communication. Scores for positive communication ranging from 7 to 35, with higher scores indicating more positive communication. Scores for negative communication range from 13 to 65, with higher scores indicating more negative communication.
Parent-adolescent General Communication Scale	Three months post-intervention.	To measure caregiver-youth communication. The PPAC measures both positive and negative communication. Scores for positive communication ranging from 7 to 35, with higher scores indicating more positive communication. Scores for negative communication range from 13 to 65, with higher scores indicating more negative communication.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Family telehealth feedback form	Nine weeks post-baseline.	To measure attitudes about the content and delivery of the intervention.
Telehealth Satisfaction Questionnaire	Immediately after the intervention.	To measure attitudes about the delivery of the intervention via telehealth.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States