Illinois United ePREP Program Evaluation

Illinois United: ePREP Program Evaluation

The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Relationship, Marital; Relational Problems
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: ePREP

Detailed Description

The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. Within the United States, one-third of married couples are distressed and almost half of first marriages end in divorce/separation. Relationship distress is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including worsened mental and physical health problems in partners as well as internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Newly developed online intervention programs for distressed couples have shown to be efficacious, but their overall reach to the general population remains limited. The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Allen Barton; Phone Number: 2172442009; Email: awbarton@illinois.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61820
      • Recruiting
      • University of Illinois Extension
      • Contact: Allen Barton; Phone Number: 217-244-2009; Email: awbarton@illinois.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Resident of Illinois
• Married, engaged, or living with their partner for at least 6 months
• Both partners willing to participate in online relationship-focused programming

Exclusion Criteria:

• One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: ePrep; The ePREP program is the online version of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. It consists of 6 self-directed online sessions and accompanying homework and brief coach calls.	Behavioral: ePREP; 6-session online psychoeducational program with supporting coach calls

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Relationship Satisfaction	Couple Satisfaction Index	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Relationship Instability	3 item Relationship Instability measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Partner Support	5 item Partner Support measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Communication conflict	4 item communication conflict measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Relationship confidence	4 item relationship confidence measure (from Stanley et al., 1994)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Intervention-target behavior	PREP 3 keys (new measure created for this study, assessing participants confidence in implementing each of the 3 keys of the PREP program)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Partner Aggression	7 item partner aggression (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Psychological distress	Kessler 6 item psychological distress	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Anger	NIH PROMIS 5 item anger measure	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Perceived Stress	Cohen's 10 item perceived stress measure	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in General Health	SF-36 4 item general health perceptions	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Insomnia	7 item insomnia severity index	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Problematic Alcohol Use	PROMIS 7 item problematic alcohol use	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Change in Exercise	1 item exercise (CDC BRFSS 2016 adaptation)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 15, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): June 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 1, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 4, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): May 7, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 3, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 29, 2021
• Last Verified: April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 20837

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No