Engagement in a Preventive Intervention for Preadolescent Children in Foster Care: Considerations for Intervention Design
- 18-03-2022
- Original Article
- Auteurs
- Erin Hambrick
- Sun-Kyung Lee
- Lindsey Weiler
- Jen O. Collins
- Tara Rhodes
- Heather Taussig
- Gepubliceerd in
- Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 5/2023
Abstract
Engagement in mental health-focused preventive interventions is understudied. Demographic, child, and system-level predictors of engagement were explored in a study with children in foster care (N = 222, Mage = 10.3) who participated in a 30-week intervention. Attendance and engagement in mentor visits and skills groups were rated weekly. Only 4 of 21 predictors showed bivariate associations with attendance/engagement: child sex, IQ, behavior problems, and trauma symptoms. SEM models with these three variables and a measure of adverse childhood experience (ACEs), were used to develop a model of engagement. Males had poorer mentor visit and group engagement. Group attendance was positively associated with trauma symptoms and negatively associated with ACEs. Group engagement was associated with higher IQ and fewer behavior problems. A contextually-sensitive intervention can result in high engagement for a vulnerable and diverse population, yet a few child factors still impacted engagement, and when identified could be ameliorated.
Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov, Identifiers: NCT00809315 & NCT00810056.
- Titel
- Engagement in a Preventive Intervention for Preadolescent Children in Foster Care: Considerations for Intervention Design
- Auteurs
-
Erin Hambrick
Sun-Kyung Lee
Lindsey Weiler
Jen O. Collins
Tara Rhodes
Heather Taussig
- Publicatiedatum
- 18-03-2022
- Uitgeverij
- Springer US
- Gepubliceerd in
-
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 5/2023
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01341-8
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