Clinical trial NCT06823518: Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming Study
Official title: Thrive Initiative Domestic and Chlid Abuse Prevention Programming Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Maltreatment
Parenting
Child Wellbeing
Lead sponsor: Penn State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: United States Air Force
First posted: 2025-02-12
Enrollment: 480
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Thrive Initiative's parent-education program delivery methods by comparing hybrid (i.e., a combination of online and group components) program delivery to online-only program delivery. The Thrive Initiative consists of four, universal parent-education programs that correpsond to specific child developmental periods. These programs inlcude: Take Root for parents/caregivers of 0-3-year-old children; Sprout for parents/caregivers of 3-5-year-old children; Grow for parents/caregivres of 5-10-year-old children; and Branch Out for parents/caregivers of 10-18-year-old children. The effectiveness of delivery method will be examined for each program. Eligible participants for this study will be United States Air Force service members or dependents who are caregivers of a child 0-18 years old. The study will involve randomization to condition meaning that participants will be assigned to the online-only or hybrid program delivery condition by chance.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* United States Air Force service member or dependent
* Parent/caregiver of a child 0-18 years old
* 18 years of age or older
* Willing to participate in the research study
* Has access to technology that will enable them to receive and respond to various technological aspects of the Thrive Initiative programs and research study
* Able to speak and understand English proficiently
* Able to understand and give consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not an United States Air Force service member or dependent
* Not a parent/caregiver of a child 0-18 years old
* 17 years of age or younger
* Unwilling to participate in the research study
* Does not have access to technology that will enable them to receive and respond to various technological aspects of the Thrive Initiative programs and research study
* Unable to speak and understand English proficiently
* Unable to understand and give consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Ages & Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional (2nd Edition)
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Mindful Self-Care Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: National Survey of Early Childhood Health - Discipline Items
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parental Stress Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parenting Sense of Competence Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Positive Behavior Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Protective Factors Survey
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Co-Viewing Media & Screen Time Recall
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Outdoor Time Recall
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parenting Scale - Short Form
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parenting Young Children Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Alabama Parenting Questionnaire - 9
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Feeding Practices & Structure Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Healthy Habits Index
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parental Emotional Styles Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Socialization of Coping Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Family Assessment Device - General Functioning
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
measure: Targeted Parent-Child Communication about Substances Scale
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start), up to 6 weeks after intervention start, and 6 months after intervention end
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8
timeFrame: Up to 6 weeks after intervention start
measure: Program Noncompletion Reason(s) Survey
timeFrame: Up to 6 weeks after intervention start
Other outcomes:
measure: Demographic Survey
timeFrame: Baseline (2 weeks before intervention start)
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
name: Daniel F Perkins, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
name: Ryan P Chesnut, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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