Clinical trial NCT01726361: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents
Official title: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Adolescent Behaviour
Family Functioning
Keywords: Multidimension Treatment Foster Care
Adolescents
Disadvantaged families
Out-of-home placement
Conduct Disorder
Family program
Denmark
Youth
Lead sponsor: VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Board of Social Services, Denmark
name: Ministry of Social Affairs, Denmark
First posted: 2012-11-14
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care compared to treatment as usual (TAU) for adolescents in Denmark in need of out-of-home placement.

Detailed description: It is difficult to treat adolescents with serious behaviour problems. Although the number of adolescents displaying serious behaviour problems is limited, they are a serious concern to the society e.g. because of their frequent violent behaviour, criminal activities and lack of school adherence.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)is a community-based treatment program developed in USA. The goal of the MTFC program is to decrease problem behaviour and to increase developmentally appropriate normative and prosocial behavior in adolescents who are in need of out-of-home placement.

This study will evaluate the effect of MTFC on adolescents in out-of-home placement.

Participants will be recruited by caseworkers in the municipalities and randomly assigned to either MTFC or TAU. TAU will consist of other kinds of out-of-home placements. Outcomes will be assessed for all participants at baseline, post-treatment (12 months), and 12 months post-treatment. Parents and youth will be asked to fill out questionnaires on e.g. behaviour, parental stress, sense of cohesion, general health.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 12-17 years old
* In need of out of home placement
* serious behaviour problems

Exclusion Criteria:

* severe psychiatric illness in youth or parent
* risk of suicide in youth
* acute psychosis in youth
* sexual offence by youth
* severe substance abuse in youth or parent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Strengths and difficulties questionnaire, Child Behavior Checklist
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parental Stress Scale
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
measure: Sense of Cohesion 13
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
measure: Ladder of life
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
measure: Major Depression Index 10
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: Other outcomes
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
Locations:
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: SFI the Danish National Centre for Social Research
Study officials:
affiliation: SFI the Danish National Centre for Social Research
name: Mette Deding
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References: