Clinical trial NCT05591261: Strong Couples Project: Disseminating Evidence-based Relationship Education
Official title: Strong Couples Project: ePREP Nationwide Dissemination
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Relationships, Marital
Relational Problems
Lead sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-24
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 120
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 via the Cooperative Extension system.

Detailed description: The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention (ePREP) for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. 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 nation in a manner that allows for scalable, sustainable program delivery.

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 sever forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in relationship satisfaction
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in relationship instability
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in partner support
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in communication conflict
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in relationship confidence
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in intervention-targeted behavior
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in partner aggression
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in psychological distress
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in anger
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in perceived stress
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in general health
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in insomnia
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in problematic alcohol use
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
measure: Change in exercise
timeFrame: Baseline, Within one week of program completion (~2 months post-baseline), and 6-month follow-up from baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Urbana
country: United States
facility: University of Illinois Extension
state: Illinois
Study officials:
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