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Strongest Families Ontario (Formerly the Family Help Program)

NCT01473511 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 172

Last updated 2016-09-02

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Summary

Strongest Families (formerly Family Help)is an evidence-based, distance health education model for families who have children with behavioural difficulties. The principal research question is "Does Strongest Families, a 12-week, home-based program of interactive readings, instructional videos, homework projects, and weekly "coaching" telephone calls out perform the care families typically experience when referred to a mental health service?". The investigators hypothesize that children randomized to Strongest Families intervention will show a significantly greater reduction in externalizing behaviour problems than those randomized to a Control (usual care). In addition, parents randomized to Family Help will report a greater improvement in parenting skills and a greater reduction in symptoms of emotional distress (i.e., feeling of anxiety, depression, and stress) than parents in the Control condition. Finally, families randomized to Family Help will use fewer mental health services than Controls.

Conditions

  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Behaviour Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strongest Families Intervention (formerly Family Help)

Distance HEALTH education intervention focussed on skill learning for parents

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • IWK Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patrick J McGrath, PhD · Vice President of REsearch Services

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-02-28
Primary Completion
2015-02-28
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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