Externalizing Behavior in Early Childhood: A Randomized Control Evaluation of a Home Visitation Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Reduction of externalizing disorders and child's aggression
研究概览
简要总结
This is a proposed home visitation program for families of children with externalizing behaviors who are on the wait list for psychiatric assessment at BC Children's hospital. The aim of this program is to implement and evaluate a home visitation strategy in order to support those waiting up to four months to consult a psychiatrist.
详细描述
The Home visitation program was developed in response to long wait lists for the Infant Psychiatry Program. This home visitation program intervention consists of the following components: Developmental guidance, empowerment of parents while respecting the parent-child attachment, and child centered interactional guidance. The home visitors ( a PhD student and a Masters level student) visit consenting families and gave the parents an opportunity to voice their concerns regarding their child's behaviors. They were instructed to co-construct a play that had to be child led. Home visitors facilitated this task. Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist and Parenting Stress Index prior to and after the intervention. These home visitations occurred approximately once a month whilst the families were on the wait list for clinical assessment and treatment. Those families that were randomized in control group did not receive any intervention.
Extended description of the protocol, including information not already contained in other fields.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 6 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children with externalizing disorders referred to Infant Psychiatry Clinic of Children's hospital and on the wait list
排除标准
- •Children over 6 years old
- •Children with internalizing disorder
- •Families that reside outside of the Vancouver due to practicality of home visitation,
- •Families requiring an interpreter
结局指标
主要结局
Reduction of externalizing disorders and child's aggression
时间窗: Participants will be followed for the duration of their time on the Clinic's wait list, an expected average of 10 weeks
The specific units of measure to be assessed pre and post intervention are the mean scores of the CBCL (overall score, attention problems subscale, externalizing subscale, aggression subscale) and the PSI (overall score, parent distress sub scale, parent-child dysfunctional interaction, difficult child subscale).
次要结局
- Measurement of parental stress(Participants will be followed for the duration of their time on the Clinic's wait list, an expected average of 10 weeks)