Trial of Transition to Parenthood Program for Couples

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT01907412

Penn State University1,200 enrolled

Overview

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?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

1,200

Conditions

Parent-Child Relations

Interventions

Family Foundations Coparenting ProgramBEHAVIORAL

Family Foundations, a program for adult couples expecting their first child, is designed to help them establish positive parenting skills and adjust to the physical, social, and emotional challenges of parenthood. Program topics include coping with postpartum depression and stress, creating a caring environment, and developing the child's social and emotional competence. Family Foundations is delivered to groups of couples through four prenatal and four postnatal classes of 2 hours each. Prenatal classes are started during the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy, and the postnatal classes end when the children are 6 months old. Family Foundations is delivered in a community setting by childbirth educators who have received 3 days of training from Family Foundations staff.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * Expecting first child * Couple living together and planning to raise child together * 18 years or older Exclusion Criteria: * not first child

Locations (1)

Penn State University, Prevention Research Center

University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Coparenting Quality

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.

Time frame: Up to 2.5 years from baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Aggressive Parenting

Aggressive parenting was measured using Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (Straus et al., 1998).

Time frame: Up to 2.5 years after baseline

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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