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Early Intervention Foster Care: A Prevention Trial (EIFC)

The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified June 2008 by Oregon Social Learning Center.
Recruitment status was  Active, not recruiting
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Information provided by:
Oregon Social Learning Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00701194
First received: June 17, 2008
Last updated: June 18, 2008
Last verified: June 2008
History of Changes

June 17, 2008
June 18, 2008
December 1999
March 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
placement stability [ Time Frame: 6 months to 48 months post-intervention ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00701194 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
  • attachment and behavioral regulation [ Time Frame: baseline through 48 months post-intervention ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • neuroendocrine and executive functioning [ Time Frame: baseline through 48 months post-intervention ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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Early Intervention Foster Care: A Prevention Trial
Early Intervention Foster Care: A Prevention Trial

The Early Intervention Foster Care [EIFC] project is an efficacy trial of the Oregon Social Learning Center Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program, a preventive intervention that targets 3 commonly co-occurring variables among young foster children: (1) behavioral problems, (2) physiological dysregulation within the neuroendocrine system (i.e., HPA axis activity), and (3) developmental delays.

The Early Intervention Foster Care project is an ongoing randomized efficacy trial to evaluate the Early Intervention Foster Care Program (EIFC). EIFC, also known at Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care-Preschool (MTFC-P), is a preventive intervention that is specifically designed to address the needs of preschool-aged foster children and their caregivers. Over the first 5 years of the project data was collected from 177 preschool-aged children, 117 of whom were in the Oregon foster care system and 60 of whom were living with their biological families for a community comparison sample. Foster children in the study were randomly assigned to the EIFC experimental intervention condition or a regular foster care condition (RFC). The following hypotheses are under investigation: (1) Relative to children in the RFC condition, children in the EIFC condition will show greater improvements in temporally proximal outcomes (e.g., behavioral/emotional, salivary cortisol, and developmental) and in temporally distal outcomes (e.g., behavioral functioning in the school setting; long-term placement stability, including reunification or adoption; and mental health status, including psychiatric diagnoses). (2) Proximal outcomes over the course of the intervention will predict distal outcomes during the early elementary school years. (3) Proximal outcomes will be mediated by caregivers' childrearing practices—specifically, engagement with and monitoring of the child in the home, the quality and consistency of parental discipline, and the use of positive reinforcement strategies. (4) The same childrearing practices will mediate the psychosocial adjustment of the child in the aftercare setting (i.e., return to family of origin, placement in adoptive home, or continued placement in long-term foster home). (5) The EIFC intervention will cost-effectively reduce the need for mental health and social services for children, decreasing the length of time that children spend in foster care and reducing the need for special education services for children.
Interventional
Not Provided
Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • School Readiness
  • Developmental Delays
Behavioral: Early Intervention Foster Care (EIFC)
The EIFC/MTFC-P intervention is delivered through a treatment team approach. Foster parents receive preservice training and ongoing consultation from program staff. Children receive individual therapy and attend a therapeutic playgroup. The intervention emphasizes the use of concrete encouragement for prosocial behavior; consistent, nonabusive limit-setting to address disruptive behavior; and close supervision of the child. The EIFC intervention employs a developmental framework in which the challenges of foster preschoolers are viewed from the perspective of delayed maturation and is oriented toward creating optimal environmental conditions to facilitate developmental progress. These conditions include a responsive and consistent caregiver and a predictable daily routine.
Other Name: Multidemensional Treatment Foster Care-Preschool (MTFC-P)
  • Experimental: 1
    EIFC/MTFC-P
    Intervention: Behavioral: Early Intervention Foster Care (EIFC)
  • No Intervention: 2
    Services as usual
    Intervention: Behavioral: Early Intervention Foster Care (EIFC)
  • No Intervention: Community Comparison
    Non-maltreated community pre-schoolers from low-income biological families.
Not Provided

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Active, not recruiting
177
March 2010
March 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • child age 3 to 6 years currently in foster care
  • child has entered new foster placement
  • child currently living in Lane County, Oregon

Exclusion Criteria:

  • child is medically or developmentally unable to complete assessment tasks
Both
3 Years to 6 Years
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
United States
 
NCT00701194
R01-MH059780
No
Philip A. Fisher, Principal Investigator, Oregon Social Learning Center
Oregon Social Learning Center
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Principal Investigator: Philip A Fisher, PhD Oregon Social Learning Center
Oregon Social Learning Center
June 2008

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