NCT06322511

Dialogical Family Guidance PostDoc Study

The Effectiveness of Dialogical Family Guidance in Families With a Child With Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tampere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This new family intervention, called Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG) is developed to target family needs especially in families with a child with neurodevelopmental disorders. PhD study showed, that this intervention is functioning with this target group. Participants (families) experienced that they got information, guidance to ordinary life and that the DFG-therapists were listening to them and above all, helping with individual problems and questions. DFG include six meetings and professionals need to attend on a 3-day long education before using this intervention.

Detailed description

Previous studies have highlighted the need for families with a child with neurodevelopmental disorders, to get guidance to daily life, information and also professionals who allow parents to share their own experiences, feelings and questions. Dialogical Family Guidance is developed to offer target families (participants) the help mentioned above. This study is a postdoctoral study to achieve more knowledge and understanding about DFG intervention. This Postdoctoral study is focusing on DFG effectivity offered to families with young children (5-7years). Researchers also want to receive information about DFG effectivity between different units inside and outside the university hospital. Comparation between different units using DFG is one goal with this postdoc study. These results may give researchers deeper understanding when deciding where (university hospital och basic level units) and for whom (childrens age?) DFG intervention is giving the most optimal help.

Conditions

• Family Dynamics
• Family Relations
• Family Support

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG)	DFG is family intervention including six meetings with family members. The individual needs and questions of each family are discussed and issues parents bring up are seemed as important.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-02
• Primary completion: 2027-12-31
• Completion: 2027-12-31
• First posted: 2024-03-21
• Last updated: 2024-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland