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Facilitating Developmental Interactions With Children in Out-of-Home Care

NCT07283471 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2026-01-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The first goal of this single arm clinical trial is to develop the Developmental Interactions Workshop Series (DIWS). The second goal is to learn about the DIWS's acceptability, feasibility, and usefulness by implementing it in agencies who provide residential care for children.

The main questions it answers are

* Does participating in the DIWS help caregivers to become more capable, motivated, and purposeful about using developmental interactions in their caregiving role?
* Do caregivers and children see more developmental interactions during their routine daily activities after the caregivers complete the DIWS?

Caregiving staff will

* Attend the DIWS
* Complete surveys 2-4 before and 4-6 weeks after the DIWS
* Complete telephone interviews before and after the DIWS (a subset of caregiving staff)

Children in care will complete brief surveys 2-4 weeks before and 4-8 weeks after their caregiving staff attend the DIWS.

Conditions

  • Psychological Trauma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The Developmental Interaction Workshop Series (DIWS)

Many children living in out-of-home care have experienced ongoing trauma, toxic stress, and adversity. These experiences have had a significant impact on children's ability to regulate their feelings and behaviors, enjoy healthy relationships, and grow along typical developmental pathways. To help these children to begin to heal from their past experiences and resume a more typical developmental trajectory, they need repetitive developmentally enriching interactions with adult caregivers. This requires caregivers with the willingness and ability to engage in frequent daily interpersonal exchanges with children that meet their emerging developmental needs and strengthen their internal resources to engage, grow, and heal. The DIWS is designed to help caregivers take advantaqe of the everyday and ordinary moments in daily life to create developmental interactions with children that help the child feel connected to others, capable, and autonomous.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Cornell University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deborah Sellers, PhD · Cornell University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-01-31
Primary Completion
2026-07-31
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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