Clinical trial NCT01391754: Effectiveness Trial for Project SafeCare for Child Neglect
Official title: Effectiveness Trial for Project SafeCare for Child Neglect
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Neglect
Keywords: child abuse
Lead sponsor: University of Oklahoma
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
name: Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services
First posted: 2011-07-12
Enrollment: 2175
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The study is a field trial comparing the SafeCare family preservation model to a comparable usual care model for parents in child welfare. The study also compares two levels of service quality control.

Detailed description: The study is a cluster-randomized field trial of the SafeCare(SC) home-based family preservation model for families in the child welfare system. The trial is conducted in collaboration with the state child welfare agency and their contracted in-home service system. The service system is regionalized and provides in home services to families referred by child welfare. Regions of the state are assigned by the study to either the SC model or to services as usual. Provider teams, nested within regions, are assigned to either a monitored or unmonitored model implementation quality control condition. The aims of the project are to test client level child welfare reentry outcomes between SC and standard conditions, across the two implementation and quality control conditions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parents in the child welfare system for neglect with or without physical abuse

Exclusion Criteria:

* Parents in the child welfare system for sexual abuse

Primary outcomes:
measure: Child welfare system recidivism
timeFrame: Up to 2766 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Child Abuse Potential Inventory
timeFrame: Approximately 180 days and 365 days
measure: Family Resources Scale
timeFrame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
measure: Beck Depression Inventory
timeFrame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
measure: Social Provisions Scale
timeFrame: Approximately 180 and 356 days
measure: Diagnostic Interview Schedule--Drug and Alcohol Disorders Module
timeFrame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: McAlester
country: United States
facility: Eastern Oklahoma Youth Services
state: Oklahoma
city: Oklahoma City
country: United States
facility: NorthCare
state: Oklahoma
city: Tulsa
country: United States
facility: Family and Children's Services
state: Oklahoma
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Oklahoma
name: Mark Chaffin, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Aarons GA, Sommerfeld DH, Hecht DB, Silovsky JF, Chaffin MJ. The impact of evidence-based practice implementation and fidelity monitoring on staff turnover: evidence for a protective effect. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2009 Apr;77(2):270-80. doi: 10.1037/a0013223.
citation: Chaffin M, Bard D. Changes in parental depression symptoms during family preservation services. Child Abuse Negl. 2011 Jun;35(6):448-58. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.02.005. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
citation: Chaffin M, Bard D, Hecht D, Silovsky J. Change trajectories during home-based services with chronic child welfare cases. Child Maltreat. 2011 May;16(2):114-25. doi: 10.1177/1077559511402048. Epub 2011 Apr 13.