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NCT Number: NCT01391754

Effectiveness Trial for Project SafeCare for Child Neglect

The study is a field trial comparing the SafeCare family preservation model to a comparable usual care model for parents in child welfare. The study also compares two levels of service quality control.

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Key information

Conditions

Child Neglect

Age range

14 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Eastern Oklahoma Youth Services, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States

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About this study

The study is a cluster-randomized field trial of the SafeCare(SC) home-based family preservation model for families in the child welfare system. The trial is conducted in collaboration with the state child welfare agency and their contracted in-home service system. The service system is regionalized and provides in home services to families referred by child welfare. Regions of the state are assigned by the study to either the SC model or to services as usual. Provider teams, nested within regions, are assigned to either a monitored or unmonitored model implementation quality control condition. The aims of the project are to test client level child welfare reentry outcomes between SC and standard conditions, across the two implementation and quality control conditions.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Parents in the child welfare system for neglect with or without physical abuse

Exclusion criteria

  • Parents in the child welfare system for sexual abuse

Treatment and study plan

SafeCare

Behavioral

Behavioral home based family preservation. Weekly visits X six months.

In vivo coached quality control

Other

Live observation of practice with expert coaching, feedback and fidelity monitoring

Services as usual

Behavioral

Home based services not using the SafeCare model

Uncoached

Other

No in vivo coached quality control or fidelity monitoring

Primary outcomes

  1. Child welfare system recidivism

    Time frame: Up to 2766 days

    Follow-up for recidivism reports to child welfare, captured from administrative data maintained by the state child welfare system

Secondary outcomes

  1. Child Abuse Potential Inventory

    Time frame: Approximately 180 days and 365 days

    This is a questionnaire survey measuring parenting distress, parenting attitudes, and risk for committing child abuse

  2. Family Resources Scale

    Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days

    This is a questionnaire survey measuring sufficiency of basic concrete resources in a family, such as adequate food, shelter, utilities, clothing, access to health care, etc.

  3. Beck Depression Inventory

    Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days

    This is a questionnaire measuring symptoms of depression

  4. Social Provisions Scale

    Time frame: Approximately 180 and 356 days

    This is a questionnaire measuring the degree of social support and quality of social relationships

  5. Diagnostic Interview Schedule--Drug and Alcohol Disorders Module

    Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days

    This is a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview, adapted to questionnaire format, measuring symptoms of alcohol disorders and drug disorders, with associated DSM based diagnostic algorithms.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Oklahoma

Other

Collaborators

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2003
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Jul 12, 2011
Registry last updated
Jul 12, 2011

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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