Indicators measured and tools used
Evaluation of proximal effects
| Indicators | Tools |
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• Parental perception of the quality of support practices employed by the principal caseworker; • Parental perception of the quality of collaboration with the principal caseworker;
• Parental perception of the degree of control they have over decisions regarding services for their children and families. |
• Evaluation questionnaire regarding quality of services received (QESR); • Helping Practices Scale (HPS); • Questionnaire regarding parent-practitioner collaboration (QCPP)1;
• Control scale with respect to services (ECS). 1 This questionnaire combines items from the Fear-of-intimacy Scale (Descutner & Thelen, 1991) and from the Home-School Survey (McGrew & Gilman, 1991). |
Evaluation of intermediary effects
| Indicators | Tools |
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• Parental adjustment and parenting;
• Quality of the child’s family environment. |
• Family Needs Scale (FNS); • Inventory of Child Well-being (ICBE) (factors related to “parental aptitudes” and “quality of home”); • Parental Stress Index (PSI); • Combined questionnaire (JVQ-PCCTS-MNBS); • Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) (≥ 1.5 years);
• Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). |
Evaluation of final effects
| Indicators | Tools |
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• Child cognitive, language, behavioural, and emotional development;
• Child victimization. |
• Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI); • Children’s Well-being Information Platform (PIBE) (motives for referral); • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (≥ 5 years);
• Developmental Assessment (GED) (≤ 5 years). |