Illinois United ePREP Program Evaluation
- Conditions
- Relationship, MaritalRelational Problems
- Interventions
- Behavioral: ePREP
- Registration Number
- NCT04378309
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Brief Summary
The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.
- Detailed Description
The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. Within the United States, one-third of married couples are distressed and almost half of first marriages end in divorce/separation. Relationship distress is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including worsened mental and physical health problems in partners as well as internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Newly developed online intervention programs for distressed couples have shown to be efficacious, but their overall reach to the general population remains limited. The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- Resident of Illinois
- Married, engaged, or living with their partner for at least 6 months
- Both partners willing to participate in online relationship-focused programming
- One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description ePrep ePREP The ePREP program is the online version of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. It consists of 6 self-directed online sessions and accompanying homework and brief coach calls.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Communication conflict Immediate and 6-month follow-up 4 item communication conflict measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
Change in Intervention-target behavior Immediate and 6-month follow-up PREP 3 keys (new measure created for this study, assessing participants confidence in implementing each of the 3 keys of the PREP program)
Change in Relationship Satisfaction Immediate and 6-month follow-up Couple Satisfaction Index
Change in Relationship Instability Immediate and 6-month follow-up 3 item Relationship Instability measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
Change in Relationship confidence Immediate and 6-month follow-up 4 item relationship confidence measure (from Stanley et al., 1994)
Change in Partner Support Immediate and 6-month follow-up 5 item Partner Support measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Partner Aggression Immediate and 6-month follow-up 7 item partner aggression (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
Change in Perceived Stress Immediate and 6-month follow-up Cohen's 10 item perceived stress measure
Change in Anger Immediate and 6-month follow-up NIH PROMIS 5 item anger measure
Change in Insomnia Immediate and 6-month follow-up 7 item insomnia severity index
Change in Psychological distress Immediate and 6-month follow-up Kessler 6 item psychological distress
Change in General Health Immediate and 6-month follow-up SF-36 4 item general health perceptions
Change in Problematic Alcohol Use Immediate and 6-month follow-up PROMIS 7 item problematic alcohol use
Change in Exercise Immediate and 6-month follow-up 1 item exercise (CDC BRFSS 2016 adaptation)
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Illinois Extension
🇺🇸Urbana, Illinois, United States