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NCT Number: NCT06161597

Family Check-Up Online

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the benefits of the Family Check-Up Online Program for parents of middle school students in Arizona. Participants will complete an online pre-survey, gain access to the online parenting program Family Check-Up, and have the option to meet with a coach to discuss the program. The participants will also complete a post-survey 3 months after enrollment.

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Key information

Conditions

Families of Middle School Students at Title 1 Schools

Age range

10 year–16 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Arizona State University

Phoenix, Arizona, 85004, United States

About this study

The lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted families adversely in multiple ways, including economic stressors, mental health-related functioning, and social/familial functioning. Given the scale of the pandemic's impact on families with school-aged children, the implementation of effective family-focused programs that target core mechanisms of change with a broad range of benefits for parents and youth across diverse populations, and that can be brought to scale rapidly and with fidelity, represents critical public health goals.

Toward this end, this project is designed to further examine the efficacy of a web-based version of the universal Family Check-Up prevention program, which is an empirically-supported, parent-focused program designed to promote resilience and improve family functioning among parents of middle school-aged youth (grades 6-8th). A randomized control trial conducted through the University of Oregon found that parents who completed the Family Check-up Online program (FCO) either with or without supplemental support coaching exhibited significant increases in confidence and effortful control related to implementing skills and strategies that promote positive emotional and behavioral health among teens. This suggests that parents who complete the program feel more empowered to help guide their child's positive decision making and more effectively manage family challenges.

This project will examine whether the FCO program produces improvements in positive parenting practices, reductions in parental emotional distress, and reductions in youth emotional/behavioral problems when delivered as a universal prevention program targeting parents of 6-8th grade students attending Title 1 public schools (>50% students eligible for free/reduced lunch). The investigators will also examine whether the structured parent coaching support component of the program (i.e., Guidance Coaching) helps to improve the program's effectiveness relative to a parent-initiated informational support condition.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • All parents with a child enrolled in grades 6-8 at participating Title 1 public schools will be invited to take part in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • N/A

Treatment and study plan

Family Check-Up Online

Behavioral

Families will be provided with access to the FCO program, available in English or Spanish. Parents complete a tutorial and five different modules focused on distinct parenting skills. Each module starts with a survey and feedback to help identify relative strengths and challenges with the targeted parenting skills. Parents are then guided through various online activities including videos that model right and wrong ways to handle comm on situations and explanations of parental self-management and problem-solving strategies. Parents are complete activities to practice the parenting skills taught. Parents will have access to the online program for 8 and they are encouraged to practice the program strategies during this time period. At the end of the 8 weeks, parent re-complete the brief questions that they filled out at the beginning of each module and then receive feedback indicating which of the parent's domain scores have improved since they completed each module.

Primary outcomes

  1. Active Parental Monitoring

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of monitoring, range 1-5, higher values = better outcome

  2. Positive Parenting

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of positive parenting practices, range 1-5, higher values = better outcome

  3. Harsh Parenting

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of harsh parenting, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  4. Parental Confidence

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of confidence with various parenting strategies, range 1-5, higher values = better outcome

  5. Child Anger

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of their child's anger, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  6. Child Oppositional Defiance

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of their child's oppositional defiant behavior, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  7. Child Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of their child's callousness, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  8. Child Aggression

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of their child's aggression, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  9. Child School Performance

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of their child's school performance, range 1-5, higher values = better outcome

  10. Child Stress

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of child's stress with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  11. Child Anxiety

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of child's anxiety with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  12. Child Depression

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of child's depression with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  13. Family Conflict

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent report of family conflict including arguing and fighting, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcomes

Secondary outcomes

  1. Parent Anxiety

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of anxiety with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  2. Parent Depression

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of depression with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

  3. Parent Stress

    Time frame: 3 months

    Parent self-report of stress with PROMIS scale, range 1-5, higher values = worse outcome

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Arizona State University

Other

Collaborators

  • Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

Registry information

Official study title

Family Check-Up Online for Middle School Parents

Acronym: FCO

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Dec 8, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 20, 2026

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