Dialogical Family Guidance PostDoc Study
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG).
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Family Dynamics, Family Relations, Family Support. Basic parameters: 4 years — 13 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Finland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Effectiveness of Dialogical Family Guidance in Families With a Child With Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Overview
This new family intervention, called Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG) is developed to target family needs especially in families with a child with neurodevelopmental disorders. PhD study showed, that this intervention is functioning with this target group. Participants (families) experienced that they got information, guidance to ordinary life and that the DFG-therapists were listening to them and above all, helping with individual problems and questions. DFG include six meetings and professionals need to attend on a 3-day long education before using this intervention.
Detailed description
Previous studies have highlighted the need for families with a child with neurodevelopmental disorders, to get guidance to daily life, information and also professionals who allow parents to share their own experiences, feelings and questions. Dialogical Family Guidance is developed to offer target families (participants) the help mentioned above. This study is a postdoctoral study to achieve more knowledge and understanding about DFG intervention. This Postdoctoral study is focusing on DFG effectivity offered to families with young children (5-7years). Researchers also want to receive information about DFG effectivity between different units inside and outside the university hospital. Comparation between different units using DFG is one goal with this postdoc study. These results may give researchers deeper understanding when deciding where (university hospital och basic level units) and for whom (childrens age?) DFG intervention is giving the most optimal help.
Interventions
- Behavioral Dialogical Family Guidance (DFG)
DFG is family intervention including six meetings with family members. The individual needs and questions of each family are discussed and issues parents bring up are seemed as important.
Primary outcome measures
- FAFHES [Time frame: 0 months and 3 months]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- DFG-questionnaire [Time frame: 3 months]
- SDQ-p questionnaire (Strengths and difficulties regarding the child) [Time frame: 0 months and 3 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Families with a child with clinical diagnosis within neurodevelopmental ambrella (ADHD, Tourette, Autism disorder, OCD...).
- the child must be between 4-13 years.
Exclusion criteria
- Families who do not understand finnish language (because they can not fill the questionnaires and professionals offering DFG are all finnish speaking). At least one parent needs to talk finnish.
- Families who are not motivated to receive DFG.
- Families who do not have a child with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Double blind
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Finland · 1 center
- Helsinki university hospital — Helsinki
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06322511 · HUS/7626/2023