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Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents

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VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research

Status and phase

Withdrawn
Phase 4

Conditions

Family Functioning
Adolescent Behaviour

Treatments

Behavioral: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01726361
SFI 2506

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care compared to treatment as usual (TAU) for adolescents in Denmark in need of out-of-home placement.

Full description

It is difficult to treat adolescents with serious behaviour problems. Although the number of adolescents displaying serious behaviour problems is limited, they are a serious concern to the society e.g. because of their frequent violent behaviour, criminal activities and lack of school adherence.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)is a community-based treatment program developed in USA. The goal of the MTFC program is to decrease problem behaviour and to increase developmentally appropriate normative and prosocial behavior in adolescents who are in need of out-of-home placement.

This study will evaluate the effect of MTFC on adolescents in out-of-home placement.

Participants will be recruited by caseworkers in the municipalities and randomly assigned to either MTFC or TAU. TAU will consist of other kinds of out-of-home placements. Outcomes will be assessed for all participants at baseline, post-treatment (12 months), and 12 months post-treatment. Parents and youth will be asked to fill out questionnaires on e.g. behaviour, parental stress, sense of cohesion, general health.

Sex

All

Ages

12 to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • 12-17 years old
  • In need of out of home placement
  • serious behaviour problems

Exclusion criteria

  • severe psychiatric illness in youth or parent
  • risk of suicide in youth
  • acute psychosis in youth
  • sexual offence by youth
  • severe substance abuse in youth or parent

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

0 participants in 2 patient groups

MTFC
Experimental group
Description:
Out of home placement in MTFC family program
Treatment:
Behavioral: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
TAU
Active Comparator group
Description:
Other kind of out of home placement
Treatment:
Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Trial contacts and locations

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