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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00373750
Cradling Our Future Through Family Strengthening Study
In-home Prevention of SA Risks for Native Teen Families
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
American Indians (AIs) in reservation communities have the poorest health, education and socioeconomic status of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S., placing AI youth at increased risk for drug abuse (alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, etc.) and adverse health and behavior outcomes. This study focuses on one of the most vulnerable groups of reservation-based AIs-AI teen mothers and their children.
Over the past two decades a number of research-based health promotion and drug abuse prevention programs for youth have been found to be effective. Of these, parenting interventions have been found to be more effective than other types of interventions. Home visiting programs for young, high-risk mothers have been designed to impact a wide range of outcomes--parenting, child and maternal health and behavior outcomes. More than 40 studies have been published since 1982 supporting the short and long-term efficacy of home visiting programs delivered during pregnancy and early childhood for low-income families. Positive outcomes have been demonstrated for improved parenting and the home environment; increased social support for mothers and children from extended family members and improved maternal health and behavior outcomes; increased birth spacing; improved children's health and behavior outcomes; prevention of child abuse and neglect; and reduced drug use.
AI teen mothers and their offspring are arguably the most vulnerable and underserved population at risk for drug abuse and adverse health and behavior outcomes in the U.S. Given their high-risk status, pregnant AI teens are likely to benefit from a parenting-focused, home visiting intervention. Cultural support for developing individual strengths through a family-based model and the noted cultural relevance of employing AI paraprofessionals are expected to enhance participants' outcomes. As nearly half of AI women begin child-bearing in adolescence, improvement in outcomes of teen mothers and their offspring could substantially impact the public health and welfare of AI communities.
Both nurses and paraprofessionals have been utilized in effective home visiting programs. However, the shortage of indigenous nurses in reservation communities renders an AI nurse-delivered, home visiting intervention unfeasible for the participating communities at this time. Further, young AI women's discomfort with health care delivered by non-Indians and the potential for cultural barriers with non-Indian home visitors provides an additional rationale for AI paraprofessionals as home visitors.
Successful home visiting programs maintain a standard for frequency and dosage of visits, employ strategies for participant retention, provide intensive training, frequent direct supervision and intensive quality assurance measures. For this study, we will maintain the highest standards for dosage, retention strategies, home visitor training and supervision, and quality assurance. The core content of the curriculum is based on American Academy of Pediatrics' comprehensive guidelines for preparing mothers to care for infants and young children, with cultural adaptations derived through guidance from our Native Advisory Board and an iterative process of community input.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Arizona
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Fort Defiance, Arizona, United States, 86540
- Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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San Carlos, Arizona, United States, 85550
- Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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Tuba City, Arizona, United States, 86045
- Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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Whiteriver, Arizona, United States, 85941
- Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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Maryland
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
- Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant AI females aged 12 to 19 years old at time of conception.
- Gestational age of 28 weeks or less (in order to complete intervention prior to delivery).
- Parent/guardian consent for youth under 18 years old.
- Reside within 1-hour transportation range (50 miles) of the local Indian Health Service medical facility.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current participation in other mental or behavior health research project.
- Factors that preclude full participation, identified at baseline and after caseness review, including: unstable and severe medical, psychiatric or drug use problem; acute suicidal or homicidal ideation requiring immediate intervention; recent, severe stressful life event such as physical or sexual abuse, or victim of a violent crime that requires specific and high intensity intervention or out of home placement; or chronic pattern of unstable caretakers or living situation.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Family Spirit Intervention
The Family Spirit Intervention included 43 structured lessons and followed a culturally congruent format.
Positive parenting lessons were focused on reducing behaviors (i.e., poor monitoring; coercive interactions;harsh, unresponsive, or rejecting parenting; and abuse/ neglect) associated with early childhood behavior problems, including externalizing, internalizing, and dysregulation problems.
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The Family Spirit Intervention was developed over a decade through community-based participatory research.The intervention content included 43 structured lessons and followed a culturally congruent format.
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No Intervention: Optimized Standard Care Control Group
Optimized standard care consisted of transportation to recommended prenatal and well-baby clinic visits, pamphlets about child care and community resources, and referrals to local services.
It also addressed access barriers to health care for young mothers and children, and it overcame concerns that home-visiting programs have operated in parallel, not in partnership, with pediatric care.
Family health liaisons conducted the optimized standard care and were not trained in the Family Spirit intervention, to avoid contamination of the control condition.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Increase in parental competence at nine intervals over 39 month study period
Time Frame: birth-3 year postpartum
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birth-3 year postpartum
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Differences in social and emotional competence, and internalizing, externalizing and regulatory problems for children between ages 12-36 months
Time Frame: birth-3 year postpartum
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birth-3 year postpartum
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Moderators and mediators of intervention response for mothers and children.
Time Frame: birth-3 year postpartum
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birth-3 year postpartum
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Increase in maternal outcomes at nine intervals over 39 month study period
Time Frame: birth-3 year postpartum
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birth-3 year postpartum
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Improved childhood outcomes at nine intervals over 39 month study period
Time Frame: birth-3 year postpartum
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birth-3 year postpartum
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: John Walkup, MD, Johns Hopkins University
- Study Director: Allison Barlow, MA, MPH, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Barlow A, Varipatis-Baker E, Speakman K, Ginsburg G, Friberg I, Goklish N, Cowboy B, Fields P, Hastings R, Pan W, Reid R, Santosham M, Walkup J. Home-visiting intervention to improve child care among American Indian adolescent mothers: a randomized trial. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006 Nov;160(11):1101-7. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.160.11.1101.
- Haroz EE, Ingalls A, Kee C, Goklish N, Neault N, Begay M, Barlow A. Informing Precision Home Visiting: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Families Who Benefit Most from Family Spirit. Prev Sci. 2019 Nov;20(8):1244-1254. doi: 10.1007/s11121-019-01039-9.
- Barlow A, Mullany B, Neault N, Goklish N, Billy T, Hastings R, Lorenzo S, Kee C, Lake K, Redmond C, Carter A, Walkup JT. Paraprofessional-delivered home-visiting intervention for American Indian teen mothers and children: 3-year outcomes from a randomized controlled trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 1;172(2):154-62. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14030332. Epub 2014 Oct 31.
- Barlow A, Mullany B, Neault N, Compton S, Carter A, Hastings R, Billy T, Coho-Mescal V, Lorenzo S, Walkup JT. Effect of a paraprofessional home-visiting intervention on American Indian teen mothers' and infants' behavioral risks: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;170(1):83-93. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12010121.
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 1R01DA019042-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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