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The hypothesis of the study is that the intervention leads to a reduction in foster children's externalizing problems and foster parents' parenting stress and that this in turn leads to a reduction in the number of breakdowns of foster placements.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral: Foster parent intervention | Experimental | Foster parents receive a foster parent intervention consisting of 10 individual home visits and three group sessions. Duration of the intervention is four months |
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| Control | No Intervention | waiting-list control group who receive care-as-usual |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foster parent intervention | Behavioral | parent management training for foster parents, consisting of 10 individual home visits and 3 group sessions. Duration is four months |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change in foster child's externalizing problems from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later) | T-score for the externalizing subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) | Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) |
| Change in foster child's externalizing problems from post-intervention to follow-up (3 months later) | The T-score of the Externalizing scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) | Assessed at post-interventio (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is about 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) and at follow-up (which is thee months later than the post-intervention measurement). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change in foster parent's parenting stress from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later) | Nijmegen Questionnaire for the Parenting Situation | Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
foster child:
Moreover, foster placements were excluded if at least two of the following criteria were present:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels | Vlaams-Brabant | 1050 | Belgium |
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| Change in foster mother's parenting stress from post-intervention to follow-up (3 months later) | The Nijmegen Questionnaire for the parenting situation | Assessed at post-interventio (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is about 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) and at follow-up (which is thee months later than the post-intervention measurement). |
| Client satisfaction | Dutch Questionaire for client satisfaction and effect | At post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months later than the baseline measurment |
| Change in foster mother's parenting behavior from baseline to post-intervention (3.5 months later) | The Ghent Parenting Behavior Scale | Assessed at two time points: at baseline (before the start of the intervention) en post-intervention (immediately after the intervention has ended, which is on average 3.5 months after the baseline measurement) |