Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Foster Parent Intervention
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Problematic Behavior in Children
- Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Enrollment
- 63
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in foster child's externalizing problems from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)
- Last Updated
- 13 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Femke vanschoonlandt
PhD Student
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Eligibility Criteria
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,
- •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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in foster child's externalizing problems from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later)
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)
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)
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).
The T-score of the Externalizing scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Secondary Outcomes
- 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))
- 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).)
- Client satisfaction(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)(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))