A Pilot Study on the Effectiveness of an Online Intervention for Adoptive Families
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 148
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in Family Cohesion
研究概览
简要总结
The current study aims to examine the effectiveness of an online, self-paced post-adoption intervention to improve understanding, well-being, and connection within adoptive families.To evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention, a mixed method, pre-post design with two conditions will be used. Data from standard, reliable measures and free-response items will be collected pre- and post-intervention from participants in two conditions: the intervention condition and the waitlist condition. The intervention condition involves receiving the intervention immediately following pre-assessments; the waitlist condition involves receiving the intervention approximately 3 months after the intervention condition once all data collection is completed.
The study aims to answer six research questions. Each research question involves analyses of the differences between the intervention and waitlist conditions across multiple time points.
- What is the intervention's effect on improving awareness of the needs of different family members and understanding how to meet these needs? Hypothesis 1: At post-intervention, parents in the intervention condition will report an improved awareness of the needs of each family member and greater understanding of how to meet these needs.
- What is the intervention's effect on parent well-being (i.e., parenting confidence and parenting stress) from pre- to post-intervention? Hypothesis 2: Parents in the intervention condition will report increased parenting confidence and trending decreases in parenting stress from pre- to post-intervention compared to those in the waitlist condition.
- What is the intervention's effect on child well-being (i.e., self-esteem and emotional and behavioral problems) from pre- to post-intervention? Hypothesis 3: Children in the intervention condition will report increased self-esteem and trending decreases in emotional and behavioral problems from pre- to post-intervention compared to those in the waitlist condition.
- What is the intervention's effect on the quality of the parent-child relationship from pre- to post-intervention? Hypothesis 4: Both parents and children in the intervention condition will report improved connection in the parent-child relationship from pre- to post-intervention compared to those in the waitlist condition.
- As an exploratory question, what is the intervention's effect on the quality of the sibling relationship from pre- to post-intervention? Hypothesis 5: Children in the intervention condition will report an improvement in the quality of their relationship with their sibling(s) from pre- to post-intervention compared to children in the waitlist condition.
- What is the intervention's effect on connection and communication within the overall family system from pre- to post-intervention? Hypothesis 6: Parents and children in the intervention condition will report increased family communication and family connection in the whole family system from pre- to post-intervention compared to parents and children in the waitlist condition.
详细描述
One member of the family will complete a survey to ensure eligibility criteria have been met. In the recruitment application, the individual who completes the application will include an email address to be used as the primary contact person for the family. If the family meets the eligibility criteria, the primary contact person will receive consent forms to complete for each member of the family. Once consent forms are completed for the entire family and each member has agreed to participate in research, the primary contact will complete a demographic survey of basic household information. In the demographic survey, the primary contact will include email addresses for each family member 18 years and older. See timeline below for reference. *Note: dates are approximate.
Once consented, online surveys of pre-assessments will be sent to families via email (via individual links; survey links for children under 18 will be sent to the primary contact). Pre-assessments include individual, dyad, and family measures to examine the effectiveness of the intervention in multiple systems of the family. Each family member who is 12 years and older will complete pre-assessments during a one-week data collection period.
After pre-assessments are complete, families will be randomly assigned to the intervention or waitlist condition using a random number generator, and families will be notified of their assigned condition.
Both the waitlist and intervention condition will complete pre-assessments.
Once the pre-assessment data collection period is complete, families in the intervention condition will have one week before the intervention begins. The primary contact of families assigned to the intervention condition will receive an email with instructions to register and to prepare for the 4-week intervention series. The waitlist condition will do nothing during this time.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Study participants must be families who have legally adopted or have legal permanency of all children in their family.
- •Study participants must have at least one adopted child in the family.
- •Adoptive families who have at least two children with at least one child being 12 years or older. It does not matter if the child who is 12 years or older is an adopted or biological child in the family.
- •All members of the family must be willing to participate in the intervention and all members 12 years and older must be willing to participate in the research assessments.
排除标准
- •Families who are current foster homes.
- •Families who have at least one member of the family who has recently been hospitalized for psychiatric issues.
- •Families in which at least one member of the family is at risk of harm to self or others.
- •Two-parent households in which the marriage is a consistent source of conflict.
- •Families who have participated in Hope Connection 2.0, a therapeutic family camp.
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention Group
干预措施: The Connected Family Series (Behavioral)
Waitlist Group
The waitlist group will receive the intervention 3 months after the intervention group.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Family Cohesion
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale IV
Change in Parent and Child Relationship
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment-Revised, Child-Parent Relationship Scale-Short Form
次要结局
- Change in Sibling Relationship(through study completion, an average of 6 months)
- Change in Parenting Stress(through study completion, an average of 6 months)
- Change in Parenting Competence(through study completion, an average of 6 months)
- Change in Child Self-Esteem(through study completion, an average of 6 months)
- Change in Child Emotional and Behavioral Problems(through study completion, an average of 6 months)
研究者
Jana Hunsley
Graduate Research Assistant
Texas Christian University