Engaging Fathers in Home Visitation

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of Family Foundations that is to be delivered concurrently with home visiting. Delivered prenatally and postnatally, Family Foundations is a coparenting prevention program for new mothers and fathers that is designed to optimize child outcomes by teaching parents how to work together in raising their child. Using a randomized clinical trial design, families will be assigned to receive Family Foundations + home visiting or home visiting alone. A comprehensive assessment is administered at baseline and then at post-intervention, and 9 and 18 months later. It is hypothesized that families receiving Family Foundations will improve in their resolving of conflict from pre-intervention through follow-up. Additional anticipated outcomes are that those receiving the intervention will have more involved fathers, mothers and fathers will report less conflict, and children will have better emotional and behavioral outcomes relative to those who receive home visiting alone.

Conditions

• Interparental Conflict
• Parenting
• Parent-child Relations
• Fathers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family Foundations coparenting program

Family Foundations is a coparenting program for new mothers and fathers designed to teach them skills needed to parent together effectively and facilitate healthy child development. Family Foundations will be administered concurrently with home visiting.

BEHAVIORAL

Home visiting

Home visiting is a child abuse prevention approach for new mothers designed to strengthen protective factors and mitigate risk factors in order to promote optimal child development.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Penn State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Robert T. Ammerman, Ph.D. · Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

45 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2013-05-31

Primary Completion

2019-06-30

Completion

2019-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations