Clinical trial NCT06161597: Family Check-Up Online
Official title: Family Check-Up Online for Middle School Parents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Families of Middle School Students at Title 1 Schools
Lead sponsor: Arizona State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
First posted: 2023-12-08
Enrollment: 2000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: All participants will receive the primary intervention: The Family Check-Up Online. Participants will then be randomly assigned to a specific coaching condition.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Active Parental Monitoring
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Positive Parenting
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Harsh Parenting
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Parental Confidence
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Anger
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Oppositional Defiance
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Callous-Unemotional Traits
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Aggression
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child School Performance
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Stress
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Anxiety
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Child Depression
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Family Conflict
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parent Anxiety
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Parent Depression
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Parent Stress
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Phoenix
country: United States
facility: Arizona State University
state: Arizona
Study officials:
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