NCT00392847

Promoting Parental Skills and Enhancing Attachment in Early Childhood

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 440 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 26 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Child psychological/behavioural disorders such as withdrawal may persist when the psychosocial context is unfavourable. Health promotion strategies (Olds' paradigm) have proved their efficacy in vulnerable populations. CAPEDP project sets out to evaluate a program of home visits in France

Detailed description

This program aims at reducing psychosocial disorders and promoting mental health, social support and attachment amongst at-risk young women and their family. 440 primigravida (pregnant women) will be randomised into two groups. The first group will receive routine follow-up as currently provided by national community health and social services. The second group will receive home visits by community workers. These visits will start during pregnancy and will continue up to the child's second birthday.

Conditions

• Behavioral Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Promoting Parental Skills and Enhancing Attachment	The first group will receive routine follow-up as currently provided by national community health and social services.
BEHAVIORAL	had home visits by community workers during pregnancy	had home visits by community workers during pregnancy to the child's second birthday.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2012-01-01
• First posted: 2006-10-26
• Last updated: 2012-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France