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Screening to Identify Parents in Need of Mental Health Support: a Feasibility Study in Child Welfare Services
Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
Summary
The main aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, preliminary effects and experiences of the Collaboration-Screening-Referral approach (in Swedish: Samverkan-Screening-Hänvisning - SSH) when used with parents referred to the Swedish child welfare services. The SSH is an approach to screen parents for symptoms of mental illness using structured questionnaires, establish intra-agency collaboration, and refer to mental health services. Additionally, to increase social workers\' competence in assessing and handling mental illness through receiving training in the SSH and administering the screening to parents. The main questions the project aims to answer are: * Are parents engaged with child welfare services willing to undergo screening for symptoms of depression and anxiety? * How have the implementation of the SSH proceeded and to what degree is it sustained? * How do parents and social workers experience the SSH? * Do social workers' behaviors, knowledge and competence relevant to supporting parents with mental illness increase when implementing the SSH? Social workers answer questions before and after their training and after 6 and 12 months. Additionally, social workers and parents will be interviewed. Qualitative and quantitative within-group analyses will be conducted to examine experiences and preliminary effects of the SSH.
Official title: A Feasibility Study of the Collaboration-Screening-Referral Model - an Approach to Identify Parents in Child Welfare Services Who Need Mental Health Support
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
355
Start Date
2024-09-20
Completion Date
2025-09-30
Last Updated
2024-09-19
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
The Collaboration-Screening-Referral (SSH) model
The SSH aims to identify parents in need of mental health support and to strengthen social workers' competence in addressing mental illness. The SSH includes three components: 1) Collaborating - establishing collaboration with local services offering support to adults with mental illness, 2) Screening - using screening instruments for depression (the Patient Health Questionnaire - PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7) to identify symptoms of mental illness among parents, and 3) Referral - Discussing the results of the screening with parents and referring to appropriate services. Techniques from motivational interviewing are included. Social workers receive training and material to administer the screening and refer parents in need of support.