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Evaluation of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health

NCT01485510 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 227

Last updated 2024-06-04

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Summary

Early intervention for maltreated infants can improve mental and physical health throughout life and benefit families and society as a whole. The New Orleans Model provides intensive assessment and treatment for families of maltreated preschool children in foster care, with recommendations to court about adoption, or permanent return to birth families. The New Orleans Model appears to have led to better informed decisions about permanent placement and to better child mental health in Louisiana. The investigators propose an exploratory randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of the New Orleans Model in the Scottish context, informing the development of an economic model to explore the potential cost-effectiveness. Families with a maltreated child under 5 years of age will be offered the New Orleans Model or "case management" i.e. quality assured services as usual, using random allocation. The investigators will measure outcome using well validated measures of parent-child interaction, cognition and attachment.

Conditions

  • Maltreated Infants

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

GIFT

An attachment-based assessment, then a tailored intervention aimed at maximising the chances of a maltreated child returning to the birth family.

BEHAVIORAL

FACS

A social work assessment of family functioning that makes recommendations regarding future placement of a maltreated child.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Glasgow

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Helen Minnis, MBChB, PhD · University of Glasgow

  • Niel Campbell, MBChB, PhD · University of Aberdeen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
60 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-08-28
Completion
2017-08-28

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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