Illinois United: ePREP Program Evaluation
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Relationship, Marital
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Enrollment
- 338
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Partner Support
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 months ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Allen Barton
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •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
Exclusion Criteria
- •One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Partner Support
Time Frame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
5 item Partner Support measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
Change in Communication conflict
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Couple Satisfaction Index
Change in Relationship Instability
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
4 item relationship confidence measure (from Stanley et al., 1994)
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Partner Aggression(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Perceived Stress(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Anger(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Insomnia(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Psychological distress(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in General Health(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Problematic Alcohol Use(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)
- Change in Exercise(Immediate and 6-month follow-up)