DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38754
title: Early Steps Multisite Study (Age 10), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eugene, Oregon, and Charlottesville, Virginia, 2002-2014
title: Archival Version

description: The Early Steps Multisite (ESM) Study is a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of the early childhood version of the Family Check-Up intervention. The enclosed data file includes home-based assessments carried out at child ages 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.5, 8.5, 9.5, and 10.5 involving 731 families from three distinct communities in the United States: Pittsburgh, PA (urban), Eugene, OR (suburban), and in and outside Charlottesville, VA (rural). Assessments include questionnaires and interviews with primary caregivers (i.e., typically mothers) and alternative caregivers (fathers, grandparents, and other child caregivers) about child behavior, sociodemographic and family risk, parent well-being and support, coupled with observations of developmentally-tailored parent-child interaction tasks (e.g., teaching, clean-up, and meal preparation tasks at ages 2-5, discussion tasks at ages 7.5 and 9.5). Teacher reports on multiple domains of child behavior were obtained beginning at age 7.5 through age 10.5, and youth reports on their own adjustment beginning at child age 8.5. Direct testing of children's academic achievement was administered at child ages 5, 7.5, and 8.5 using scales from the Woodcock-Johnson.
description: The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of the early childhood version of the Family Check-Up intervention.
description: Response Rates: Of the 1,666 families who had children in the appropriate age range and were approached at WIC programs across the three study sites, 879 met eligibility requirements (52% in Pittsburgh, 57% in Eugene, and 49% in Charlottesville). Before the first home assessment at age 2, families were randomly assigned to the FCU or control conditions, the latter receiving WIC services as usual.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Established instruments including the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist and accompanying Teacher Report Form, the Center of Epidemiological Study - Depression (CES-D), Crnic and Greenberg General Life Satisfaction scale, Crnic and Greenberg Parenting Daily Hassles scale, Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory.
description: The sample includes families enrolled in Women, Infants, and Children Nutritional Supplement (WIC) Programs at three jurisdictions in the US for which the target child needed to be between 2 and 3 years of age at the time of enrollment. Families were invited to participate if they had a child between 2 years 0 months and 2 years 11 months of age, following a screening to ensure that they met study criteria by having family, socioeconomic, and/or child risk factors for future behavioral problems. Families were eligible to participate if they scored at least one standard deviation above the normative mean in at least two of the three domains of risk: a) familial risk (e.g., maternal depressive symptoms, b) socio-demographic risk (e.g., low parental education), and c) child risk (e.g., CP). Of the 1,666 families who had children in the appropriate age range and were approached at WIC programs across the three study sites, 879 met eligibility requirements (52% in Pittsburgh, 57% in Eugene, and 49% in Charlottesville). Before the first home assessment at age 2, families were randomly assigned to the FCU or control conditions, the latter receiving WIC services as usual. At the time of recruitment, primary caregivers across sites self-identified as European American (50%), African American (28%), biracial (13%), and other groups (9%; e.g., American Indian, Native Hawaiian), with 13.4% of the sample reported being Hispanic American. The primary caregivers who participated in the assessment tasks at age 2 were predominantly biological mothers (96%), and in all other cases, were biological fathers, grandmothers, or other non-maternal custodial caregivers. The sample was primarily of lower socioeconomic status, with more than two-thirds of the families enrolled in the project reporting an annual income less than $20,000. Forty-one percent of primary caregivers had a high school diploma or general education diploma (GED) and an additional 32% had 1-2 years of post-high school training. For more information about sample characteristics, see Dishion et al. (2008).
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Age 10 Adult Antisocial Activities Raw Data DS2: Age 10 Alternate Caregiver Demographics Raw Data DS3: Age 10 Adult-Child Relationship Scale Raw Data DS4: Age 10 Alternate Caregiver System Involvement Interview Raw Data DS5: Age 10 Body Mass Index Raw Data DS6: Age 10 Bullying Questionnaire Raw Data DS7: Age 10 Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Raw Data DS8: Age 10 Circle of Care Raw Data DS9: Age 10 Child-Peer Relationship & Behavior Survey Teacher Raw Data DS10: Age 10 Bio-Father's Contact with Target Child Raw Data DS11: Age 10 Disruptive Behavior Disorder Rating Scale Raw Data DS12: Age 10 Demographic Raw Data DS13: Age 10 Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Raw Data DS14: Age 10 Dyadic Adjustment Scale Raw Data DS15: Age 10 Examiner Home Impressions Raw Data DS16: Age 10 Examiner Home Impressions Videotaper Raw Data DS17: Age 10 Financial Stress Questionnaire Raw Data DS18: Age 10 Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure Raw Data DS19: Age 10 Middle Child Home Record Form Raw Data DS20: Age 10 Me and My Neighborhood Questionnaire Raw Data DS21: Age 10 Moffitt Scale Raw Data DS22: Age 10 Monitoring Questionnaire Raw Data DS23: Age 10 Parental Monitoring Interview Raw Data DS24: Age 10 Parenting Children and Adolescents Raw Data DS25: Age 10 Child Behavior Checklist- Alternate Caregiver Raw Data DS26: Age 10 Peers Questionnaire Raw Data DS27: Age 10 Parent Involvement Scale Raw Data DS28: Age 10 Parent Involvement Scale - Teacher Version Raw Data DS29: Age 10 Parent Rating of Peers and Social Skills Raw Data DS30: Age 10 Measure of Pubertal Development Raw Data DS31: Age 10 Questionnaire List DS32: Age 10 Relational Aggression Raw Data DS33: Age 10 Sawtooth Raw Data DS34: Age 10 School Quality Survey Raw Data DS35: Age 10 Skills Checklist Raw Data DS36: Age 10 Self-Report of Deviance Raw Data DS37: Age 10 Student-Teacher Relationship Scale Teacher Raw Data DS38: Age 10 Target Child Substance Use Raw Data DS39: Age 10 Child Behavior Checklist- Teacher Raw Data DS40: Age 10 Teacher Demographics Raw Data DS41: Age 10 Inhibitory Control Raw Data DS42: Age 10 Teacher Social Skills Survey Raw Data DS43: Age 10 Teacher Rating of Peers and Social Skills Raw Data DS44: Age 10 Teacher Questionnaire List DS45: Age 10 Early Adolescent Temperament-Revised Raw Data DS46: Age 10 Adult Antisocial Activities Scored Data DS47: Age 10 Adult-Child Relationship Scale Scored Data DS48: Age 10 Body Mass Index 1 Scored Data DS49: Age 10 Body Mass Index 2 Scored Data DS50: Age 10 Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scored Data DS51: Age 10 Child-Peer Relationship & Behavior Survey Teacher Scored Data DS52: Age 10 Disruptive Behavior Disorder Rating Scale Scored Data DS53: Age 10 Dyadic Adjustment Scale Scored Data DS54: Age 10 Financial Stress Questionnaire Scored Data DS55: Age 10 Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure Scored Data DS56: Age 10 Me and My Neighborhood Questionnaire Scored Data DS57: Age 10 Moffitt Scale Scored Data DS58: Age 10 Monitoring Questionnaire Scored Data DS59: Age 10 Parental Monitoring Interview Scored Data DS60: Age 10 Parenting Children and Adolescents Scored Data DS61: Age 10 Performance of Childcare and Household Duties Scored Data DS62: Age 10 Child Behavior Checklist Scored Data DS63: Age 10 Child Behavior Checklist Covert Scored Data DS64: Age 10 Parent Involvement Scale Scored Data DS65: Age 10 Parent Involvement Scale - Teacher Version Scored Data DS66: Age 10 Parent Rating of Peers and Social Skills Scored Data DS67: Age 10 Relational Aggression Scored Data DS68: Age 10 School Quality Survey Scored Data DS69: Age 10 Skills Checklist Scored Data DS70: Age 10 Self-Report of Deviance Scored Data DS71: Age 10 Student-Teacher Relationship Scale Teacher Scored Data DS72: Age 10 Child Behavior Checklist - Teacher Scored Data DS73: Age 10 Inhibitory Control Scored Data DS74: Age 10 Teacher Social Skills Survey Scored Data DS75: Age 10 Teacher Rating of Peers and Social Skills Scored Data DS76: Age 10 Early Adolescent Temperament-Revised Scored Data
description: The sample includes families enrolled in Women, Infants, and Children Nutritional Supplement (WIC) Programs at three jurisdictions in the US for which the target child needed to be between 2 and 3 years of age at the time of enrollment. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: coded on-site observation; coded video observation; cognitive assessment test; face-to-face interview; mail questionnaireFor additional information, please see the study website. A list of more than 80 published papers using the data set can be found here.