NCT01483521

Infant Psychiatry Home Visitation Program

Externalizing Behavior in Early Childhood: A Randomized Control Evaluation of a Home Visitation Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a proposed home visitation program for families of children with externalizing behaviors who are on the wait list for psychiatric assessment at BC Children's hospital. The aim of this program is to implement and evaluate a home visitation strategy in order to support those waiting up to four months to consult a psychiatrist.

Detailed description

The Home visitation program was developed in response to long wait lists for the Infant Psychiatry Program. This home visitation program intervention consists of the following components: Developmental guidance, empowerment of parents while respecting the parent-child attachment, and child centered interactional guidance. The home visitors ( a PhD student and a Masters level student) visit consenting families and gave the parents an opportunity to voice their concerns regarding their child's behaviors. They were instructed to co-construct a play that had to be child led. Home visitors facilitated this task. Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist and Parenting Stress Index prior to and after the intervention. These home visitations occurred approximately once a month whilst the families were on the wait list for clinical assessment and treatment. Those families that were randomized in control group did not receive any intervention. Extended description of the protocol, including information not already contained in other fields.

Conditions

• Aggression
• Hyperactivity
• Impulsive Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clinical home visitation	Clinical Home visitation consisted of once a month visits to families on the experimental group. During those visits home visitors facilitated developmentally appropriate play guidance and co-construction tasks for the dyad.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2011-12-01
• Last updated: 2011-12-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada