Family Foundations Coparenting Pilot Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Parent-Child Relations
• Interventions: Behavioral: Family Foundations Coparenting Program

• Registration Number: NCT01901536
• Lead Sponsor: Penn State University

Brief Summary

This is a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of the Family Foundations program and to better understand how families cope with having a new baby. The research questions include: What is the effectiveness of the Family Foundations program? How do families cope with having a new baby?

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2002-12
• Primary Completion: 2007-11
• Study Completion: 2007-11
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-16
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-17
• Status Verified: 2021-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-02-03
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 497

Inclusion Criteria

• Expecting first child
• Couple living together and planning to raise child together
• 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria

• Not first child

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention Group	Family Foundations Coparenting Program	Couples randomly assigned to the Intervention Group received the Family Foundations Coparenting Program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Coparenting Quality	up to 3.5 years after baseline	We assessed coparenting relationship quality with the 31-item Coparenting Scale, which was created based on prior work (e.g., Abidin \& Brunner, 1995; Cordova, 2001; Frank, Olmstead, Wagner,\& Laub, 1991; Margolin et al., 2001; McHale, 1997). The overall score represents an average of items covering theoretically important domains: coparental agreement, support,undermining, and exposure of the child to conflict.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parenting Discipline Practices	3.5 years after baseline	The Parenting Scale assesses discipline practices in parents of children from 18-48 months (Arnold,O'Leary, Wolff, \& Acker, 1993).
Child Behavior Problems	3.5 years after baseline	Child behavior problems were measured using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach \& Rescorla, 2000), reported by mothers only. From this 100-item questionnaire, separate sub-scales were calculated using scoring conventions. From these, we examined three overall scores which were normed for child age: Total problems, Externalizing problems, and Internalizing problems. In addition, we examined two specific sub-scales given their relevance to this study: Aggression and Attention/Hyperactivity.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Penn State University, Prevention Research Center; 🇺🇸 University Park, Pennsylvania, United States