NCT00267566

Strongest Families (Formerly Family Help Program): Pediatric Anxiety

Strongest Families (Formerly Family Help Program): Primary Care Delivery by Telephone for Psychological and Behavioural Problems (Pediatric Anxiety)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 91 (actual)
• Sponsor: IWK Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the Strongest Families (formerly Family Help Program)is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Strongest Families distance intervention compared to usual or standard care that is typically provided to children with mild to moderate Anxiety symptomology. This is a single-center trial based at the IWK Health Center. The primary outcome is change in diagnosis.

Detailed description

The purpose of the Strongest Families (formerly Family Help Program)is to deliver, primary care mental health services to children and their families in the comfort and privacy of their own home. Approximately 128 children (6-12 years of age)suffering from mild to moderate (but clinically significant) symptoms of pediatric anxiety will be randomized. The intervention is delivered from a distance, using educational materials (manuals, video-tapes, audio-tapes) and telephone consultation with a trained paraprofessional "coach" who is supervised by a licensed health care professional. The telephone coach delivers consistent care based on written protocols, with on-going evaluation by a professional team. Fifty percent of the eligible participants will receive Strongest Families (formerly Family Help Program) telephone-based treatment and 50% will be referred back to their family physician to receive standard care as determined by that physician. Those receiving standard care will be evaluated for outcome results and then compared to the Family Help treated participants. It is anticipated that Family Help treatment will be proven to be as or more effective than standard care.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strongest Families (formerly Family Help Program): Anxiety Program	Evidence-based psychological and behavioural distance intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-08-01
• Primary completion: 2007-09-01
• Completion: 2008-04-01
• First posted: 2005-12-21
• Last updated: 2013-09-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada