Improving Father-Child and Father-Partner Relationships Among Black and Hispanic Fathers
- Conditions
- Partner CommunicationParentingParent-Child Relations
- Interventions
- Behavioral: 24/7 Dad
- Registration Number
- NCT05214898
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Southern California
- Brief Summary
Fathers play a unique role in the lives of children, with high quality interactions found to improve a child's executive functioning and general school achievement. Father involvement also has positive impacts on fathers themselves, with more involved fathers reporting more self-confidence in their parenting, more satisfaction with parenting, demonstration of more maturity, and reports of less psychosocial distress. However, poverty can have a negative association with fathers parenting and child outcomes, though paternal warmth can mediate this relationship. Children's Institute Inc will recruit and implement the 24/7 Dad program which is designed to provide a comprehensive evidenced-based fatherhood program that builds and strengthens father-child relationships. The curriculum for the primary workshops will be the 24/7 Dad curriculum, which addresses both the responsible parenting and healthy relationship areas in this project. A quasi-experimental interrupted time series (ITS) design allows for a continuous sequence of observations on a population, taken repeatedly over time.
- Detailed Description
Fathers play a unique role in the lives of children, with high quality interactions found to improve a child's executive functioning and general school achievement. Father involvement also has positive impacts on fathers themselves, with more involved fathers reporting more self-confidence in their parenting, more satisfaction with parenting, demonstration of more maturity, and reports of less psychosocial distress. However, poverty can have a negative association with fathers parenting and child outcomes, though paternal warmth can mediate this relationship. Children's Institute Inc will recruit and implement the 24/7 Dad program which is designed to provide a comprehensive evidenced-based fatherhood program that builds and strengthens father-child relationships. The curriculum for the primary workshops will be the 24/7 Dad curriculum, which addresses both the responsible parenting and healthy relationship areas in this project. The study will use a quasi-experimental interrupted time series (ITS) design that allows for a continuous sequence of observations on a population, taken repeatedly over time. Study aims include: (1) Does the 24/7 Dad intervention influence the behaviors of fathers of young children?; (2) Do fathers who participated in the 24/7 Dad intervention and additional post-intervention support (MIRG and/or financial literacy and job support activities) have better outcomes than those who complete 24/7 Dad only?; (3) Does trauma history and/or current mental wellbeing mediate the relationship between the 24/7 Dad intervention and father engagement, father-child relationships, and co-parenting relationships?; and (4) Does perceived discrimination influence successful outcomes of 24/7 Dad intervention participants? To test the hypotheses of Aim 1 and Aim 2, a generalized linear mixed model will be fitted to the outcome variable individually, specified for corresponding distribution. For Aim 3, investigators will use path models, special cases of structural equation modeling (SEM) with observable variables only, to test the multiple hypothesized mediating pathway.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 350
- Male
- Age 18 years or older
- Have a child under the age of 24 years
- Speak English or Spanish
• Unable to speak English or Spanish
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Delayed-Start 24/7 Dad Investigators will use a quasi-experimental interrupted time series (ITS) design that allows for a continuous sequence of observations on a population, taken repeatedly over time (Bernal et al., 2017). ITS design provides an estimate of the causal effect of a discrete intervention; the design begins with measurements on a dependent variable and the intervention breaks ("interrupts") this time series into preintervention and post-intervention time points. Data will be collected from two group an "Immediate Start Group" and a "Delayed Start Group" (who will serve as a control group for the ITS design). Immediate Start 24/7 Dad Investigators will use a quasi-experimental interrupted time series (ITS) design that allows for a continuous sequence of observations on a population, taken repeatedly over time (Bernal et al., 2017). ITS design provides an estimate of the causal effect of a discrete intervention; the design begins with measurements on a dependent variable and the intervention breaks ("interrupts") this time series into preintervention and post-intervention time points. Data will be collected from two group an "Immediate Start Group" and a "Delayed Start Group" (who will serve as a control group for the ITS design).
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Father Engagement with Child 3 months Father Engagement Scale (Dyer et al. 2018). 10-item questionnaire measuring interactions between fathers and children
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Father-Child Relationship 3 month Child-Parent Relationship Scale - Short Form (Driscoll \& Pianta, 2011). 15-item measure of conflict and closeness between fathers and children.
Relationship Conflict 3 months Continuum of Conflict and Control Relationship Scale (Carlson et al., 2017). 20-item scale that identifies variance in relationship IPV, relationship distress, and individual distress
Father Relationship with Co-Parent 3 months Co-Parenting relationship scale (Dyer, Fagan, Kaufman, Pearson, \& Cabrera, 2015). 11-item scale aimed at describing the way the father and mother work together as co-parents
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Southern California
🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States