The project is a 15-year follow-up of 240 young adults whose families participated in an experimental evaluation of the New Beginnings Program (NBP), a preventive intervention for divorced families. The NBP was provided in late childhood; the follow-up occurred in young adulthood. Families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: mother program (MP), dual-component mother and child program (MPCP), or literature-control (LC) condition. Programs were designed to change several putative mediators of children's post-divorce mental health problems using empirically-supported change strategies. The investigators expected that the NBP would have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mental health and substance use problems and disorders, developmental tasks, parent-young adult relationships, physical health problems, and competencies, such that YAs who participated in NBP will have better functioning than YAs in the control condition. The investigators expected that the NBP will have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mothers' mental health; those in the NBP are expected to have fewer mental health problems than those in the control condition.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
240
A preventive intervention for divorced families.
Arizona State University: Prevention Research Center
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Diagnosis of mental health disorder
Incidence and number of internalizing, externalizing, and substance use disorders with onset of symptoms within the last nine years.
Time frame: 15 year follow-up
Young Adult Substance Use
Frequency of substance use past month, and age of onset of regular drinking.
Time frame: 15 year follow-up
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
Number of internalizing and externalizing problems during the past 6 months
Time frame: 15 Year follow-up
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