Family Health and Development Project

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Serious Emotional Disturbance

In brief

The Family Health and Development Project (FHDP) is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service (IICAPS) intervention, targeting emotionally, behaviorally, and/or psychiatrically disordered children at risk of a psychiatric inpatient admission and their families. Children and families are randomized to receive IICAPS or Home-based Child Treatment Coordination (Home-based CTC), a home-based case management intervention for coordination of mental health services for children. Approximately 144 children and their families will be enrolled for a 12 month study period. Data will be collected through interviews with the child's parent/legal guardian, and from the child's teacher, the child's school, and the Department of Social Services (claims data). This study will test the hypotheses that children receiving IICAPS will be less likely to exhibit out-of-control behaviors and less likely to experience a psychiatric hospitalization and/or out-of-home placement during and up to six months post-discharge from services.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01567969

Run by

Yale University

People needed

110

Starts

2011-05-01

Expected to finish

2016-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-14

Who can join

Age: 6 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• child has a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV) diagnosis
• child at risk of psychiatric hospitalization due to serious out-of-control behaviors
• child resides in home of legal guardian, who is primary caregiver
• child insured by Medicaid
• score in the borderline clinical or clinical range on the Externalizing Scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)

You may not qualify if…

• referred to IICAPS by a probation officer
• suffers from an unstable, chronic medical comorbidity
• prior receipt of IICAPS

Where it is running

• Yale University Child Study Center — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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