NCT01008189

6-Year Follow-up of a Prevention Program for Bereaved Families

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 244 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Six-years following participation in the Family Bereavement Program (FBP) participants in the program as compared to a self-study control group will have lower levels of mental health problems, lower one-year prevalence of mental disorder that meets diagnostic criteria, lower use of substances, higher levels of competence at achieving developmentally appropriate tasks in academic achievement and social competence, and better self-esteem. The effects of the FBP will be moderated by baseline levels of mental health problems and gender. Bereaved caregivers who participated in the program will also show lower levels of mental health problems as compared with controls. Program effects will be mediated by theoretical mediators targeted by the program.

Conditions

• Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self- study comparison group	Caregivers, children and adolescents each received three books about coping with grief following the death of a loved one plus a syllabus to guide reading
BEHAVIORAL	Family Bereavement Program	12 session groups for caregivers and bereaved children and adolescents plus two individual sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 1996-01-01
• Primary completion: 2005-07-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2009-11-04
• Last updated: 2009-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States