15 Year Follow-up of New Beginnings Program for Divorced Families (NBF15)

August 1, 2011 updated by: Arizona State University

Effects of NBP for Children of Divorce 15 Years Later

The project is a 15-year follow-up of 240 young adults whose families participated in an experimental evaluation of the New Beginnings Program (NBP), a preventive intervention for divorced families. The NBP was provided in late childhood; the follow-up occurred in young adulthood. Families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: mother program (MP), dual-component mother and child program (MPCP), or literature-control (LC) condition. Programs were designed to change several putative mediators of children's post-divorce mental health problems using empirically-supported change strategies. The investigators expected that the NBP would have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mental health and substance use problems and disorders, developmental tasks, parent-young adult relationships, physical health problems, and competencies, such that YAs who participated in NBP will have better functioning than YAs in the control condition. The investigators expected that the NBP will have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mothers' mental health; those in the NBP are expected to have fewer mental health problems than those in the control condition.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

240

Phase

  • Phase 2
  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Arizona
      • Tempe, Arizona, United States, 85287
        • Arizona State University: Prevention Research Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

9 years to 12 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Divorced in past two years
  • Female residential parent
  • At least one 9-12 year-old child resided (at least 50%) with the mother
  • Neither mother nor any child was currently in treatment for mental health problems
  • Mother had not remarried nor planned to remarry during the program, and did not have a live-in boyfriend
  • Custody was expected to remain stable
  • Family resided within an hour drive of program site
  • Mother and child could complete assessments in English
  • Child was not learning disabled nor in special education
  • If diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, child was taking medication

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Child scored above 17 on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI, endorsed an item indicating that s/he wanted to kill her/himself, or scored above the 97th percentile on the Externalizing Subscale (Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL])

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Mother Program
11 session program focused on parenting skills
Behavioral: New Beginnings Program
A preventive intervention for divorced families.
Experimental: Mother Plus Child Program
11 session Mother Program focused on parenting skills plus 11 session Child program focused on child coping skills
Behavioral: New Beginnings Program
A preventive intervention for divorced families.
No Intervention: Literature Control
Families received books on children's post-divorce adjustment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Diagnosis of mental health disorder
Time Frame: 15 year follow-up
Incidence and number of internalizing, externalizing, and substance use disorders with onset of symptoms within the last nine years.
15 year follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Young Adult Substance Use
Time Frame: 15 year follow-up
Frequency of substance use past month, and age of onset of regular drinking.
15 year follow-up
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
Time Frame: 15 Year follow-up
Number of internalizing and externalizing problems during the past 6 months
15 Year follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Arizona State University

Collaborators

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sharlene A Wolchik, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

July 1, 2006

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2009

Study Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 29, 2011

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 1, 2011

First Posted (Estimate)

August 2, 2011

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

August 2, 2011

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 1, 2011

Last Verified

July 1, 2011

More Information

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Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 5R01MH071707-04 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • 5P30MH068685-05 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

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