Improving contact between children in out-of-home care and their birth parents: developing and trialling a contact intervention: Trialling an enhanced model of contact.

Australian Catholic University, Institute of Child Protection Studies0 sites183 target enrollmentApril 7, 2015

Overview

Phase: N/A
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Child Welfare
Sponsor: Australian Catholic University, Institute of Child Protection Studies
Enrollment: 183
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 6 years ago

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

April 7, 2015

End Date

August 31, 2018

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

Australian Catholic University, Institute of Child Protection Studies

•There are four groups of participants who will be recruited and interviewed as part of the study.
•1\. Children who are in permanent out\-of\-home care and have supervised contact managed by one of the participating agencies in ACT will be interviewed if they are aged between 8 and 14 years. Information will be collected from others about children (with consent).
•2\. Parents of children aged 0 to 14 years who are in permanent out\-of\-home care and have supervised contact managed by one of the participating agencies in ACT, NSW and Victoria.
•3\. Carers of these children are also eligible to participate.
•4\. Workers from the partner agencies allocated to the children in the study will also be invited to be interviewed.
•Although parents, carers and workers are also to be interviewed, the sample is based on 180 child participants (90 in the intervention group and 90 in the control group).

•Participants with communication difficulties (cognitive or sensory, language barrier); serious psychological illnesses; and participants who do not consent to participate in the study. Participants will be assessed for suitability on a case by case basis as appropriate.