NCT04488523

Family Telehealth Project for Foster Care Youth

Leveraging Technology to Improve Family Relationships for Adolescents in Out-of-Home Placement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of an existing family based intervention to be delivered via telehealth to child welfare-involved (CWI) youth and their caregiver of origin.

Detailed description

The goal of this study is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of an existing empirically supported, family-based affect management intervention to be delivered via telehealth. There are two versions of this intervention: 1) a dyadic version to be delivered to CWI youth and their caregiver of origin, and 2) a caregiver-only version to be delivered to any caregiver (including kinship caregivers) of a CWI youth. The study involves iteratively adapting the intervention with feedback from youth and caregiver participants and stakeholder partners, as well as evaluating the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the intervention.

Conditions

• Parent-Child Relations
• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family-based Telehealth Intervention	The Family Telehealth intervention focuses on improving parent-child relationships and communication. For the dyadic version, the intervention involves eleven hours of intervention material; it includes motivational interviews, individual and joint sessions co-led by two separate clinicians. The sessions will be delivered on a weekly basis. For the caregiver-only version, the intervention involves six hours of intervention material; it includes a motivational interview and individual sessions led by a single clinician. The sessions will be delivered on a weekly basis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2025-11-01
• Completion: 2025-11-01
• First posted: 2020-07-28
• Last updated: 2025-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States