Family Navigator Plus for Foster Parents
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: FN+ Intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Intervention. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- United States
- 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
Building Capacity for Youth Mental Wellness: Feasibility and Acceptability for a Mental Health Family Navigator Model for Foster Parents
Overview
The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services. The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the the program's acceptability (e.g., satisfaction, barriers to participation, and burden), utility (e.g., how useful foster parents found the program to be), and feasibility (e.g., number referred who meet eligibility, time to complete assessments, self-reported feasibility). The investigators hypothesize that our program will be acceptable, useful, and feasible for foster parents of youth with mental health needs.
Interventions
- Behavioral FN+ Intervention
Participants will attend 5 one-on-one sessions over the course of 5 weeks; they will meet with a family navigator over video conferencing software (e.g., Zoom). The purpose of each sessions are as follows: 1) Provide an overview of the program and help parents understand their perceptions of child behaviors, 2) Train parents to find, access, and overcome barriers to mental health services, 3) Build parent capacity in understanding how mental health treatment works and how to communicate with pro
Primary outcome measures
- Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) [Time frame: Post-Intervention (Week 5) and 3 Month Follow Up (Week 18)]
- Post Session Questionnaire (PsQ) [Time frame: After Completing Each Session (Weeks 1 - 5)]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Parent Activation Measure - Mental Health [Time frame: Baseline (Week 1), Post-Intervention (Week 5), 3 month Follow Up (Week 18)]
- Barriers to Treatment Participation [Time frame: Baseline (Week 1), Post-Intervention (Week 5), 3 month Follow Up (Week 18)]
- PROMIS-Parent Proxy Pediatric Depressive Symptoms Short Form 8a (parent-report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 1), Post-Intervention (Week 5), 3 month Follow Up (Week 18)]
- PROMIS-Parent Proxy Pediatric Anxiety Short Form 8a (parent-report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 1), Post-Intervention (Week 5), 3 month Follow Up (Week 18)]
- Pediatric Symptoms Checklist - 17 (Parent Report) [Time frame: Baseline (Week 1), Post-Intervention (Week 5), 3 month Follow Up (Week 18)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Foster parent of a youth between the ages of 6 to 17 with mental health needs
- Parent adopted child from foster care
- Living in Illinois, United States
- English or Spanish speaking
- Has access to internet and videoconferencing
Exclusion criteria
\- Participated in the FN+ Focus Groups or PROACTIVE Parent Pilot Study
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Northwestern University — Chicago
Publications
- Risser, H. J., Morford, A. E., Murphy, A. N., Pinkerton, L. M., Law, C., Yang, Y., ... & Boisseau, C. L. (2024). Feasibility and acceptability of a family navigator program to support foster parents of youth with mental health concerns. Children and Youth Services Review, 160, 107578.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06978959 · STU00222882