NCT02653716: BeST?-

Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of the New Orleans Intervention Model for Infant Mental Health

Completed NA Last updated 3 June 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing New Orleans Intervention Method in Maltreatment in 384 participants. Completed in 8 December 2023.

Timeline

29 August 2017

Primary endpoint
8 December 2023

8 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Helen Minnis
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	384
Start date	29 August 2017
Primary completion	8 December 2023
Estimated completion	8 December 2023
Sites	2 locations across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• New Orleans Intervention Method
• Case Management

Conditions studied

• Maltreatment — all drugs for Maltreatment →
• Mental Health — all drugs for Mental Health →

Sponsor

Helen Minnis

Who can join

Adults 0 Months to 60 Months, any sex, with Maltreatment or Mental Health. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

To evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the New Orleans Intervention Method (NIM) in relation to an enhanced services as usual model, Case Management (CM), for the management of maltreated infants and young children entering care in the United Kingdom (UK) .

Publications & conference data

4 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Protocol for the economic evaluation of a complex intervention to improve the mental health of maltreated infants and children in foster care in the UK (The BeST? services trial).
   Deidda M, Boyd KA, Minnis H, Donaldson J, et al · · 2018 · cited 8× · PMID 29540420 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020066
2. The Best Services Trial (BeST?): a cluster randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of New Orleans Intervention Model with services as usual (SAU) for infants and young children entering care.
   Crawford K, Fitzpatick B, McMahon L, Forde M, et al · · 2022 · cited 7× · PMID 35130937 · DOI 10.1186/s13063-022-06007-3
3. Infant mental health services for birth and foster families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST<sup>?</sup>): a cluster-randomized phase 3 clinical effectiveness trial.
   Crawford K, Young R, Wilson P, Deidda M, et al · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 40312587 · DOI 10.1038/s41591-025-03534-9
4. Infant mental health services for families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST?): a single-blind cluster-randomised, multicentre, phase 3 clinical- and cost-effectiveness trial
   Minnis H, Crawford K, Young R, Wilson PM, et al · · 2024 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4872730/v1