Strong Foundations: Intervening to Promote Co-Parenting and Reduce Father Hazardous Drinking in Expectant Parents
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 368
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Parent Adjustment
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to understand if a parenting program that helps couples learn to parent as a team and maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as maintaining safer levels of alcohol use, promotes parent and child health and well-being. Programs will be delivered prenatally and postnatally and will include both group classes and individualized sessions. A comprehensive assessment is administered during pregnancy and then at 6 and 12 months of child age. It is hypothesized that targeting intervention during the naturally motivating transition to parenthood may not only provide opportunities for long lasting behavioral change for parents, but also initiate a cascade of protective processes that ultimately reduce risk for negative emotional and behavioral outcomes for children.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Participants will be asked to participate in a parenting program but will not be informed about which arm of the study they have been assigned. To avoid bias in the evaluation of the interventions, outcome assessors will not be informed about which arm of the study participants have been assigned.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Pregnant couples who are cohabitating
- •Parents are 18 years of age or older
- •Health behavior such as moderate to heavy drinking
- •English speaking
排除标准
- •Plural pregnancy
- •Illicit drug use other than cannabis during pregnancy
研究组 & 干预措施
Healthy Foundations
A community-based parenting education program with individual family check ins will be implemented to all participants assigned to this arm.
干预措施: Healthy Foundations (Behavioral)
Family Foundations
An adapted Family Foundations parenting program for expecting first time parents with individual family check ins will be implemented to all participants assigned to this arm.
干预措施: Family Foundations (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Parent Adjustment
时间窗: 6 months of child age
Parent adjustment will be assessed with self-report on mental health screenings. The Brief Symptom Inventory is a widely used mental health screening measure. Average responses to the listed symptoms range from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely) based on how distressing symptoms have been. Higher scores indicate greater intensity of symptoms.
Parent Alcohol Use
时间窗: 6 months of child age
Quantity-frequency of alcohol use (Quantity Frequency Index) and frequency of binge drinking (4 or 5 or more on a single occasion) based on the NIAAA standard drink will be assessed. Higher scores indicate greater quantity and frequency of alcohol use and binge drinking, with moderate drinking being defined as up to 1 standard drink per day for women and up to 2 standard drinks per day for men.
Couple Relationship/Co-parenting
时间窗: 6 months of child age
Couple relationship will be evaluated through the Co-parenting Relationship Scale. For overall coparenting quality, average responses range from 0 (not true of us/never) to 6 (very true of us/very often). Lower scores indicate worse outcomes.
次要结局
- Parent-infant Interactions(6 and 12 months of child age)
- Infant Self-Regulation(6 and 12 months of child age)
研究者
Rina D. Eiden
Professor of Psychology
Penn State University