NCT01485510

Evaluation of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health

Evaluation of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health in Glasgow

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 227 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Glasgow · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 60 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Early intervention for maltreated infants can improve mental and physical health throughout life and benefit families and society as a whole. The New Orleans Model provides intensive assessment and treatment for families of maltreated preschool children in foster care, with recommendations to court about adoption, or permanent return to birth families. The New Orleans Model appears to have led to better informed decisions about permanent placement and to better child mental health in Louisiana. The investigators propose an exploratory randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of the New Orleans Model in the Scottish context, informing the development of an economic model to explore the potential cost-effectiveness. Families with a maltreated child under 5 years of age will be offered the New Orleans Model or "case management" i.e. quality assured services as usual, using random allocation. The investigators will measure outcome using well validated measures of parent-child interaction, cognition and attachment.

Detailed description

The first 5 months of this trial - from December 2011 to April 2012 - is an internal pilot or "implementation period". During this time we have fewer research staff, both services will just have started and we will only be collecting selected outcome measures. These will be the Principle Outcome Measure, the Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment (ITSEA), plus the Disturbance of Attachment Interview (DAI) and Parent-Infant Global Assessment of Functioning (PIR-GAS). We hope to include data from implementation period in our trial analysis, but if results are very different due to services "bedding in", we may not do so

Conditions

• Maltreated Infants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	GIFT	An attachment-based assessment, then a tailored intervention aimed at maximising the chances of a maltreated child returning to the birth family.
BEHAVIORAL	FACS	A social work assessment of family functioning that makes recommendations regarding future placement of a maltreated child.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-28
• Completion: 2017-08-28
• First posted: 2011-12-05
• Last updated: 2024-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom