A Regional Partnership to Improve Outcomes Through Fatherhood Engagement

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Father-Child Relations; Child Abuse; Substance Use; Child Neglect; Fathers
• Interventions: Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement; Behavioral: HERO Dads Fatherhood Program; Behavioral: Contingency Management; Behavioral: Case Management

• Registration Number: NCT05562557
• Lead Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center

Brief Summary

Montefiore will engage fathers in families at risk of substance misuse in the Bronx and neighboring communities. Families will be referred from Bronx and neighboring community-based child welfare systems, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers, and medical providers if identified at risk of substance use concerns and will be randomly assigned to receive services as usual as part of the comparison group, or to receive enhanced services as part of the program group.

Enhanced services include: (1) Motivational Enhancement; (2) referral to Healthy, Empowered, Resilient, and Open (HERO) Dads fatherhood engagement program; (3) Contingency Management; and (4) Case Management.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-09-29
• Study First Posted: 2022-09-30
• Study Start: 2023-05-09
• Status Verified: 2025-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-01-28
• Last Update Posted: 2025-01-30
• Primary Completion: 2027-09
• Study Completion: 2027-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 240

Inclusion Criteria

• (i) is a custodial or non-custodial father,
• (ii) who has at least one child under the age of 18,
• (iii) someone in the family is identified as at-risk for substance use

Exclusion Criteria

• The placement of all children in the family in foster care

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Enhanced Fatherhood Services through Regional Partnership Grant Round 7 (RPG7)	Case Management	Randomly assigned to receive enhanced RPG7 services (motivational enhancement, fatherhood engagement services, contingency management, case management)
Enhanced Fatherhood Services through Regional Partnership Grant Round 7 (RPG7)	Motivational Enhancement	Randomly assigned to receive enhanced RPG7 services (motivational enhancement, fatherhood engagement services, contingency management, case management)
Enhanced Fatherhood Services through Regional Partnership Grant Round 7 (RPG7)	HERO Dads Fatherhood Program	Randomly assigned to receive enhanced RPG7 services (motivational enhancement, fatherhood engagement services, contingency management, case management)
Enhanced Fatherhood Services through Regional Partnership Grant Round 7 (RPG7)	Contingency Management	Randomly assigned to receive enhanced RPG7 services (motivational enhancement, fatherhood engagement services, contingency management, case management)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Child well-being, as measured by: Child Behavior Checklist	Follow Up (6-months after Baseline)	This is a standardized self-report measure widely used in the measure of child behavior and child well-being. A separate form is used for children aged 1.5-5, and 6-18. The questionnaire is completed by the caregiver using a series of Likert scales (0=absent, 1=sometimes, 2=often occurs). There are 113 questions, measuring a series of internalizing (e.g., anxious/ depressed, depressed, somatic complaints) and externalizing (e.g., attention problems, rule-breaking behavior, aggression) symptoms over the prior 6-months. Raw scores are standardized into t-scores, with elevated scores reflecting greater symptomatology when compared to a gender and aged normed population.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Montefiore Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Bronx, New York, United States