FF2: Trial of Transition to Parenthood Program for Couples

Sponsor

Penn State University (Other)

Overall Status

Active, not recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT01907412

Collaborator

(none)

1,200

Enrollment

Location

Arms

174

Duration (Months)

6.9

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

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?

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Parent-Child Relations	Behavioral: Family Foundations Coparenting Program	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

1200 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

Single (Outcomes Assessor)

Primary Purpose:

Prevention

Official Title:

Trial of Transition to Parenthood Program for Couples

Study Start Date :

Jun 1, 2008

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group Couples in the Control group did not receive the Family Foundations Coparenting Program.
Experimental: Intervention Group Couples randomly assigned to the Intervention Group received the Family Foundations Coparenting Program.	Behavioral: Family Foundations Coparenting Program 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.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

No Intervention: Control Group

Couples in the Control group did not receive the Family Foundations Coparenting Program.

Experimental: Intervention Group

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

Behavioral: Family Foundations Coparenting Program

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.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Coparenting Quality [Up to 2.5 years from 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

Aggressive Parenting [Up to 2.5 years after baseline]
Aggressive parenting was measured using Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (Straus et al., 1998).

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

not first child

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Penn State University, Prevention Research Center	University Park	Pennsylvania	United States	16802

Sponsors and Collaborators

Penn State University

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Mark Feinberg, Research professor, Penn State University

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01907412

Other Study ID Numbers:

R01HD058529-02

First Posted:

Jul 25, 2013

Last Update Posted:

Apr 15, 2022

Last Verified:

Apr 1, 2022

Keywords provided by Mark Feinberg, Research professor, Penn State University

First time parents

Coparenting

Family Foundations

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 15, 2022