Promoting Parental Skills and Enhancing Attachment in Early Childhood (CAPEDP)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status

Completed

Conditions

Behavioral Disorders

Treatments

Behavioral: had home visits by community workers during pregnancy

Behavioral: Promoting Parental Skills and Enhancing Attachment

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00392847

P051045

Details and patient eligibility

About

Child psychological/behavioural disorders such as withdrawal may persist when the psychosocial context is unfavourable. Health promotion strategies (Olds' paradigm) have proved their efficacy in vulnerable populations. CAPEDP project sets out to evaluate a program of home visits in France

Full description

This program aims at reducing psychosocial disorders and promoting mental health, social support and attachment amongst at-risk young women and their family. 440 primigravida (pregnant women) will be randomised into two groups. The first group will receive routine follow-up as currently provided by national community health and social services. The second group will receive home visits by community workers. These visits will start during pregnancy and will continue up to the child's second birthday.

Enrollment

440 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

Under 26 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being less than 26 years old
Being pregnant for less than 27 weeks
Being primiparous
Living in the study area
Being socially vulnerable: less than 12 years of education AND/OR socially isolated AND/OR eligible for a public health insurance for people with low resources.

Exclusion criteria

Refusal to participate
Not able to speak French
Having a medical follow-up which necessitates regular contact with health professional
Not having health insurance
Persons for whom follow up at 27 months is impossible (evaluation at baseline)