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NCT Number: NCT00231179

The MOM Program: 5 Year Follow-up Study of a Home Visiting Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The purpose of the MOM Program Continuation is to promote child development by helping families become more competent in accessing and using available health, developmental and educational resources. The program focuses are childhood immunizations, Early Intervention services, lead screening, Early Head Start and Head Start enrollment. The Intervention consists of frequent phone calls and home visits to encourage mothers to have their babies immunized on schedule and to participate in needed developmental and educational services. The program seeks to fill the gap between children's need for services and mothers' ability to assure their children's participation in those services.

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Key information

Conditions

Child Development

Age range

4 year–5 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

About this study

The MOM Program Continuation builds on the work of The MOM Program, a 3 year randomized intervention. The premise of the MOM Program was that professional support through home visits and frequent phone contacts would improve children's cognitive and behavioral development, ultimately improving their early educational success. The children were enrolled in the MOM Program at birth. The MOM Program Continuation provides continued intervention for the children and mothers of the original cohort to assure that the children are prepared for kindergarten entry at 5 years of age and to evaluate the children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age 5 years. The program will also create a longitudinal database to study the linkages between maternal cognitive ability and child cognitive, educational, and behavioral outcomes through entry into school.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

Previous enrollment in The MOM Program; child age of 5 years (plus or minus 3 months); willingness to come to office for follow-up assessment visit; parental consent and child assent.

Exclusion criteria

None.

Treatment and study plan

Home visiting professional support model

Behavioral

Home visits and telephone calls keyed to well child visits.

Control

Other

The control group received an information booklet on child/family services upon enrollment and transportation for the follow-up evaluations. They were called every 4 months to maintain contact information

Other names: No intervention, informational booklet only

Primary outcomes

  1. Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Third Edition (WPPSI-III)

    Time frame: 5 years of age (plus or minus 1 month)

    Cognitive ability was assessed through the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Third Edition (WPPSI-III). The WPPSI-III has been developed and standardized for children ages 2 years, 6 months through 7 years, 3 months of age. The WPPSI-III yields a Verbal Score, a Performance Score, a General Language Score, and a Full Scale Score. These scores have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The range of possible values is 50 (worst value) to 150 (best value).

  2. Child Behavior Checklist Internalizing Scale at 5 Years of Age, Percentage of Participants

    Time frame: at child age of 5 years (plus or minus 1 month)

    Caregivers completed The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Preschool form from The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). The CBCL is standardized for children ages 1.5 to 5 years and measures child internalizing and externalizing behaviors and total problems. Respondents are asked to rate 99 problem items as 0 for "not true of the child," 1 for "somewhat or sometimes true of the child," and 2 for "very true or often true of the child" based on the past two months. The range of possible values is 0-100. Percentage of Participants with Abnormal Behavior is calculated by: % abnormal = # of Abnormal / (# of Normal + # of abnormal).

  3. Child Behavior Checklist Externalizing Scale, Percentage of Abnormality in Participants

    Time frame: at child age of 5 years (plus or minus 1 month)

    Caregivers completed The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Preschool form from The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). The CBCL is standardized for children ages 1.5 to 5 years and measures child internalizing and externalizing behaviors and total problems. Respondents are asked to rate 99 problem items as 0 for "not true of the child," 1 for "somewhat or sometimes true of the child," and 2 for "very true or often true of the child" based on the past two months. The range of possible values is 0-100. Percentage of Participants with Abnormal Behavior is calculated by: % abnormal = # of Abnormal / (# of Normal + # of abnormal).

  4. Child Behavior Checklist Aggressive Subscale, Percentage of Abnormality in Participants

    Time frame: at child age of 5 years (plus or minus 1 month)

    Caregivers completed The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Preschool form from The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). The CBCL is standardized for children ages 1.5 to 5 years and measures child internalizing and externalizing behaviors and total problems. Respondents are asked to rate 99 problem items as 0 for "not true of the child," 1 for "somewhat or sometimes true of the child," and 2 for "very true or often true of the child" based on the past two months. The range of possible values is 0-100. Percentage of Participants with Abnormal Behavior is calculated by: % abnormal = # of Abnormal / (# of Normal + # of abnormal).

  5. Child Behavior Checklist Attention Subscale, Percentage of Abnormality in Participants

    Time frame: child age 5 years (plus or minus 1 month)

    Caregivers completed The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Preschool form from The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). The CBCL is standardized for children ages 1.5 to 5 years and measures child internalizing and externalizing behaviors and total problems. Respondents are asked to rate 99 problem items as 0 for "not true of the child," 1 for "somewhat or sometimes true of the child," and 2 for "very true or often true of the child" based on the past two months. The range of possible values is 0-100. Percentage of Participants with Abnormal Behavior is calculated by: % abnormal = # of Abnormal / (# of Normal + # of abnormal).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Other

Collaborators

  • Claneil Foundation, Inc.
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • William Penn Foundation

Registry information

Official study title

The MOM Program Continuation - 5 Year Follow-up

Acronym: MOM Program

Important dates

Study start
2004
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Oct 4, 2005
Registry last updated
Nov 23, 2015

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