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Educational Support Interventions for Children in Care

NCT02217072 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 190

Last updated 2014-08-15

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Summary

A Randomized controlled study of two different educational support interventions developed for children in foster care (age 6-13).

Conditions

  • Learning Problems

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

School intervention

A school-based intervention that builds on the promising Swedish programme SkolFam, but is adapted to a Danish school context. The two main components of the programme are a) comprehensive assessment of the child, involving testing of the child's cognitive and academic abilities and difficulties as well as an evaluation of the child's behaviour, school-related social relations and well-being, and b) a systematic and individually targeted intervention plan, made in collaboration between a psychologist, the teachers, and a special educational teacher at the school (e.g., the reading counsellor).

BEHAVIORAL

Parents as Tutors

A home-based intervention, comprising a structured tutoring programme that allows foster parents to systematically support the foster child's school performance. Foster parents will attend an introductory tutor training seminar at which they will be introduced to relevant theory on learning and counselled on tutoring practice. The intervention itself is designed to provide approximately three hours per week of individual home-based tutoring for a period of 40 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Social Affairs

    collaborator AMBIG

  • VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Misja Eiberg, Ph.d. fellow · SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2017-12-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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