Clinical trial NCT04378309: Illinois United ePREP Program Evaluation
Official title: Illinois United: ePREP Program Evaluation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Relationship, Marital
Relational Problems
Lead sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-05-07
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Detailed description: The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. Within the United States, one-third of married couples are distressed and almost half of first marriages end in divorce/separation. Relationship distress is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including worsened mental and physical health problems in partners as well as internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Newly developed online intervention programs for distressed couples have shown to be efficacious, but their overall reach to the general population remains limited. The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Resident of Illinois
* Married, engaged, or living with their partner for at least 6 months
* Both partners willing to participate in online relationship-focused programming

Exclusion Criteria:

* One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Relationship Satisfaction
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Relationship Instability
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Partner Support
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Communication conflict
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Relationship confidence
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Intervention-target behavior
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Partner Aggression
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Psychological distress
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Anger
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Perceived Stress
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in General Health
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Insomnia
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Problematic Alcohol Use
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
measure: Change in Exercise
timeFrame: Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Urbana
country: United States
facility: University of Illinois Extension
state: Illinois
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