An Evaluation of Relationship and Coparenting Education Curricula for Adolescent Parents

Summary

An intent-to-treat randomized design coupled with a time-series design will be used to assess differential adjustment between the treatment and control groups, and to assess differential changes in adjustment between adolescent parents across four time-points. A block randomization design will be used to randomly assign eight participating schools into one of four treatment conditions based on curriculum assignment. Schools can receive a co-parenting (COPAR), healthy romantic relationship (HRR), and/or a control (CONT) curriculum each semester. Treatment conditions reflect schools which receive a full treatment model (i.e., COPAR-HRR, HRR-COPARE) or a partial treatment model (i.e., COPAR-CONT, and HRR-CONT). The investigators hypothesize that youth participating in the full-treatment group will show statistically significant immediate and sustained improvements in well-being, as well as larger improvements in their co-parenting and relationship knowledge and behaviors post treatment and more sustained improvements in co-parenting and relationship behaviors six months post-treatment than youth in the partial-treatment group. Couples in the program will show better co-parenting and relationship outcomes than couples where only one adolescent participated.

Conditions

• Romantic Relationship Skills
• Coparenting Skills

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Full Intervention #1

Participants will receive 10 lessons on a weekly basis per semester for two semesters, for a total of 20 lessons. This Intervention group will receive the coparenting and then romantic relationship curricula. The lessons last between 45-60 minutes and are based on evidence based curricula.

BEHAVIORAL

Full Intervention #2

Participants will receive 10 lessons on a weekly basis per semester for two semesters, for a total of 20 lessons. This Intervention group will receive the romantic relationship and then coparenting curricula. The lessons last between 45-60 minutes and are based on evidence based curricula.

BEHAVIORAL

Partial Intervention #1

Participants will receive 10 lessons on a weekly basis per semester for two semesters, for a total of 20 lessons. This Partial Intervention group will receive the romantic relationship curriculum and a control curriculum. The lessons last between 45-60 minutes and are based on evidence based curricula.

BEHAVIORAL

Partial Intervention #2

Participants will receive 10 lessons on a weekly basis per semester for two semesters, for a total of 20 lessons. This Partial Intervention group will receive the coparenting curriculum and a control curriculum. The lessons last between 45-60 minutes and are based on evidence based curricula.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kansas State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Penn State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Texas State University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-08-01

Primary Completion

2020-05-31

Completion

2020-09-29