Promoting Co-Parenting and Reducing Hazardous Drinking in New Families

Summary

This study aims to understand if a parenting program that helps couples learn to parent as a team and maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as maintaining safer levels of alcohol use, promotes parent and child health and well-being. Programs will be delivered prenatally and postnatally and will include both group classes and individualized sessions. A comprehensive assessment is administered during pregnancy and then at 6 and 12 months of child age. It is hypothesized that targeting intervention during the naturally motivating transition to parenthood may not only provide opportunities for long lasting behavioral change for parents, but also initiate a cascade of protective processes that ultimately reduce risk for negative emotional and behavioral outcomes for children.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Parent-Child Relations
• Drinking, Alcohol
• Adjustment

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Foundations

Healthy Foundations combines elements of a community-based parent education program with additional information about infant and child development, good parenting practices, parent health behavior, and couple support.

BEHAVIORAL

Family Foundations

A modified version of Family Foundations, an evidence-based preventive intervention for couples during the transition to parenthood, will be implemented to address several aspects of parent and family adjustment, including parent health behavior, particularly alcohol use, and couple relationship dynamics, to promote a healthy parenting environment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  collaborator OTHER

• University at Buffalo

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  collaborator NIH

• Penn State University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rina D Eiden, PhD · Penn State

• Stephanie Godleski, PhD · Rochester Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-01-25

Primary Completion

2026-01-19

Completion

2026-07-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations