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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 (CSR / in Swedish: Samverkan-Screening-Hänvisning - SSH) when used with parents referred to the Swedish child welfare services. The SSH is an approach including an online training and organizational working model to equip social services 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 and confidence in assessing and handling mental illness through receiving training in the SSH and administering questionnaires 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? * Are the trial procedures and training included in the SSH-model feasible, in terms of acceptability, completion, and negative experiences? * How do parents and social workers experience the SSH? * Do social workers' clinical skill use, knowledge and confidence relevant to supporting parents with mental illness increase? 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
210
Start Date
2024-10-09
Completion Date
2026-05-05
Last Updated
2026-10-27
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. The online training that social workers participate in is therefore also a part of the SSH-model.
Locations (1)
Municipal agency
Tidaholm, Sweden