Clinical trial NCT01483521: Infant Psychiatry Home Visitation Program
Official title: Externalizing Behavior in Early Childhood: A Randomized Control Evaluation of a Home Visitation Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Aggression
Hyperactivity
Impulsive Behaviors
Keywords: Randomized
Home visitation
Externalizing disorder
Parenting stress
Childhood externalizing disorders
Positional defiant
Lead sponsor: University of British Columbia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: British Columbia Childrens Hospital Foundation
First posted: 2011-12-01
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 6
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children with externalizing disorders referred to Infant Psychiatry Clinic of Children's hospital and on the wait list

Exclusion Criteria:

* 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Reduction of externalizing disorders and child's aggression
timeFrame: Participants will be followed for the duration of their time on the Clinic's wait list, an expected average of 10 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Measurement of parental stress
timeFrame: Participants will be followed for the duration of their time on the Clinic's wait list, an expected average of 10 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: British Columbia Children's Hospital
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of British Columbia
name: Pratibha Reebye
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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