The project aims to transition the approach used to care for children with complex conditions and care pathways into a more holistic and coordinated model. The traditional model where specialists independently treat single diseases, makes joint and coordinated decisions about patients with multiple and unclear conditions difficult. In particular there is a gap between mental and somatic services. In preparation for re-designing the care model, several pre-studies are conducted, both a register study and a collection of user reported experiences. Built on the results, we have invented multi-disciplinary teams of complementary competences including paediatricians, psychologists, and physiotherapists to meet the patient and family. The study includes: * To implement the new team intervention in a clinical case-control study * To scientifically evaluate the intervention * To systematise lessons learned in regard to potential spread across systems and patient groups Children 6-16 years together with family and professionals will constitute the team. The assessment aims to clarify the patient's condition through shared decision making and to develop a treatment plan for the child. It is a clinical randomised controlled trial where TpT children will be compared to children following treatment as usual. It includes a one year follow-up regarding a set of evaluation domains: provider perspectives, user-centred experiences and outcomes, as well as health care outcomes.
200 children with multi-referrals will be invited to either intervention or treatment as usual at their third or more referral to Haukeland university hospital. In the intervention group the child and family will meet a complementary team of professionals for more than two hours aimimg to get a clarification of the patient's condition and giving coping strategies for their condition. Outcome defined as better mental health and quality of life as well as increased school attendence are some of the measures being collected. These outcomes will be compared to the control group after 12 mth.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
New intervention where the patient with multi-referrals to specialist health service meet with a complementary professional team consisting of doctor, psychologist and physioterapist aiming clarify the child's condition through shared decison-making and agreeing upon treatment plans for the child
Haukeland universitet sykehus
Bergen, Norway
Contentment with the intervention - Patient
Patient evaluate the intervention - A questionnaire for the study has been developed "Contentment of the TpT intervention (Patient)" with two items and for each item has a score 1-4 and 4 is most positive.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Contentment with the intervention - Parents
Parents evaluate the intervention - A questionnaire for the study has been developed "Contentment of the TpT intervention (Parent)" with two items and score for each item has 1-4 and 4 is most positive.
Time frame: Baseline
Contentment with the intervention - Parents
Parents evaluate the intervention - A questionnaire for the study has been developed "Contentment of the TpT intervention (Parent)" with two items and score for each item has 1-4 and 4 is most positive.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Contentment with the intervention - Professionals
Professionals evaluate the intervention - A questionnaire for the study has been developed Usefulness of the TpT intervention with two items and score for each item has 1-4 and 4 is most positive.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Mental health status
Strenght and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) is a mental health screening questionnaire. It constitutes 20 items, with five items in each of the four subscales:emotional problems, hyperactivity/inattention, conduct problems, and peer problems.
Time frame: Baseline
Mental health status
Strenght and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) is a mental health screening questionnaire. It constitutes 20 items, with five items in each of the four subscales:emotional problems, hyperactivity/inattention, conduct problems, and peer problems.
Time frame: 1 year after the intervention
Mental health status
Strenght and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) is a mental health screening questionnaire. It constitutes 20 items, with five items in each of the four subscales:emotional problems, hyperactivity/inattention, conduct problems, and peer problems.
Time frame: 2 year after the intervention
Quality of Life: KIDSCREEN-27 Barne/ungdomsversjon 8-18år
Using KIDSCREEN-27 to evaluate Quality of Life, caregiver provide information in five dimensions these are Rasch scales: Physical Well-Being (5 items), Psychological Well-Being (7 items), Autonomy \& Parents (7 items), Peers \& Social Support (4 items), and School Environment (4 items). Each item has a scale of five where 1 is "not at all" is worse outcome and 5 "very much" is the best outcome.
Time frame: Baseline
Quality of Life: KIDSCREEN-10 Barne/ungdomsversjon 8-18år
Using KIDSCREEN-10 to evaluate Quality of Life, caregiver provide information in five dimensions these are Rasch scales: Physical Well-Being (5 items), Psychological Well-Being (7 items), Autonomy \& Parents (7 items), Peers \& Social Support (4 items), and School Environment (4 items). Each item has a scale of five where 1 is "not at all" is worse outcome and 5 "very much" is the best outcome.
Time frame: 1 year after the intervention
Contact with specialist healthcare
Post evaluation of use of health services - numbers of new referrals
Time frame: 1 year after the intervention after the intervention
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