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NCT Number: NCT01407120

15 Year Follow-up of New Beginnings Program for Divorced Families

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Disorder Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Disorders Substance Use Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

9 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2 / Phase 3

Primary location

Arizona State University: Prevention Research Center

Tempe, Arizona, 85287, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Divorced in past two years
  • Female residential parent
  • At least one 9-12 year-old child resided (at least 50%) with the mother
  • Neither mother nor any child was currently in treatment for mental health problems
  • Mother had not remarried nor planned to remarry during the program, and did not have a live-in boyfriend
  • Custody was expected to remain stable
  • Family resided within an hour drive of program site
  • Mother and child could complete assessments in English
  • Child was not learning disabled nor in special education
  • If diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, child was taking medication

Exclusion criteria

  • Child scored above 17 on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI, endorsed an item indicating that s/he wanted to kill her/himself, or scored above the 97th percentile on the Externalizing Subscale (Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL])

Treatment and study plan

New Beginnings Program

Behavioral

A preventive intervention for divorced families.

Primary outcomes

  1. Diagnosis of mental health disorder

    Time frame: 15 year follow-up

    Incidence and number of internalizing, externalizing, and substance use disorders with onset of symptoms within the last nine years.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Young Adult Substance Use

    Time frame: 15 year follow-up

    Frequency of substance use past month, and age of onset of regular drinking.

  2. Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

    Time frame: 15 Year follow-up

    Number of internalizing and externalizing problems during the past 6 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Arizona State University

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of NBP for Children of Divorce 15 Years Later

Acronym: NBF15

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Aug 2, 2011
Registry last updated
Aug 2, 2011

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