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NCT Number: NCT01901536

Family Foundations Coparenting Pilot Trial

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?

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Key information

Conditions

Parent-Child Relations

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Penn State University, Prevention Research Center

University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

  • Not first child

Treatment and study plan

Family Foundations Coparenting Program

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Coparenting Quality

    Time frame: up to 3.5 years after 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 outcomes

  1. Parenting Discipline Practices

    Time frame: 3.5 years after baseline

    The Parenting Scale assesses discipline practices in parents of children from 18-48 months (Arnold,O'Leary, Wolff, & Acker, 1993).

  2. Child Behavior Problems

    Time frame: 3.5 years after baseline

    Child behavior problems were measured using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000), reported by mothers only. From this 100-item questionnaire, separate sub-scales were calculated using scoring conventions. From these, we examined three overall scores which were normed for child age:

    Total problems, Externalizing problems, and Internalizing problems. In addition, we examined two specific sub-scales given their relevance to this study: Aggression and Attention/Hyperactivity.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Penn State University

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Registry information

Official study title

Promotion of Coparenting During Family Formation Period

Acronym: FF1

Important dates

Study start
2002
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Jul 17, 2013
Registry last updated
Feb 8, 2021

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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