Trial reportBMC public health2018
Cost-effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing in child welfare: a controlled study.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Economic evaluations of interventions focusing on child abuse and neglect in high-income countries: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Violence Prevention Economic Evaluations, 2000-2019.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing and the Challenges to Its Implementation: A Scoping Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
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- Effectiveness of an innovative treatment protocol for misophonia in children and adolescents: Design of a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2023Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to examine the short- and long term (cost-) effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) compared to care as usual (CAU) in terms of improved child safety, empowerment and social support.
methodsA subgroup of a larger randomized controlled trial, comprising 69 families in child welfare (experimental group: n = 46; control group: n = 23), was included.
resultsNo additional effects of FGC on child safety, social support and only short-term positive effects on empowerment were found. There were no differences in costs between FGC and CAU. The chance for FGC to be cost-effective was small. For families who refused FGC, the FGC approach was more cost-effective than CAU, whereas it was less cost-effective for families that prepared or completed FGC.
conclusionsOverall, FGC is not (cost-)effective in improving child safety, empowerment and social support, but cost-effectiveness varies at different levels of FGC-completion.
trial registrationDutch Trial Register number NTR4320 . Registered 17 December 2013.
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