NCT00267618

Family Help Program: Pediatric Recurrent Headache and Abdominal Pain

Family Help Program: Primary Care Delivery by Telephone for Psychological and Behavioural Problems (Pediatric Recurrent Headache and Abdominal Pain)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: IWK Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 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 Recurrent Headache/Abdominal Pain symptomology. This is a single-centre trial based at the IWK Health Centre. The primary outcome is change in diagnosis.

Detailed description

The purpose of the 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 106 children (9-12 years of age)suffering from mild to moderate (but clinically significant) symptoms of pediatric Recurrent Headache/Abdominal Pain 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 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

• Pediatric Recurrent Headache & Abdominal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	FHP Pain	Evidence-based psychological and behavioural Intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-06-01
• Primary completion: 2007-06-01
• Completion: 2008-04-01
• First posted: 2005-12-21
• Last updated: 2015-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada