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Cost-effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing in child welfare: a controlled study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2018
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Title
Cost-effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing in child welfare: a controlled study
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5770-5
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Authors

Sharon Dijkstra, Hanneke E. Creemers, Francisca J. A. van Steensel, Maja Deković, Geert Jan J. M. Stams, Jessica J. Asscher

Abstract

This 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. A subgroup of a larger randomized controlled trial, comprising 69 families in child welfare (experimental group: n = 46; control group: n = 23), was included. No 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. Overall, FGC is not (cost-)effective in improving child safety, empowerment and social support, but cost-effectiveness varies at different levels of FGC-completion. Dutch Trial Register number NTR4320 . Registered 17 December 2013.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 11%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Postgraduate 4 7%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 21 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Psychology 4 7%
Sports and Recreations 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 24 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2018.
All research outputs
#5,829,891
of 23,094,276 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,830
of 15,063 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#99,355
of 326,642 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#183
of 333 outputs
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