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- Clinical Trial NCT05367102
Supporting Healthy Relationships Program for FRAMEWorks (SHR FRAMEWorks) (FRAMEWorks)
Montefiore Medical Center Supporting Healthy Relationships Program for FRAMEWorks
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
More specifically, the investigator is interested in answering the following research questions:
Primary Study Question:
To what extent do clients show increased relationship satisfaction (Primary Endpoint: Couples Satisfaction Index-CSI) after receiving the virtual Zoom relationship education intervention? a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
Secondary Study Questions:
- To what extent do clients learn and retain the knowledge and skills that are taught in the relationship education intervention? a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
- To what extent do clients become more emotionally intelligent after the relationship education intervention? a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
- To what extent do clients show improved co-parenting relationships after the relationship education intervention? a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
To what extent do clients become more securely attached to their partners after receiving the relationship education intervention?
a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
To what extent do clients attend workshops when they are delivered virtually via Zoom?
a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
- To what extent are clients engaged in workshops when they are delivered virtually via Zoom? a) To what extent do partner effects impact this outcome?
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Traci Maynigo, PsyD
- Phone Number: 224 718-401-5044
- Email: tmaynigo@montefiore.org
Study Locations
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New York
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Bronx, New York, United States, 10451
- Recruiting
- Montefiore Medical Center
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Contact:
- Traci Maynigo, PsyD
- Phone Number: 224 718-401-5044
- Email: tmaynigo@montefiore.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Scott Weltzer, PhD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Married or unmarried couples who are 18 years or older
- Must have custodial children (biological, foster, adopted) under the age of 18 (or expectant parents)
- Income below 200% of poverty level.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active intimate partner violence and increased risk of intimate partner violence
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: In Person
Participants will receive all services in person, including participating in the initial intake process, and attending all workshops.
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The investigator will provide the following 4 activities: 1) marriage and relationship education [using a modified version of the empirically supported Loving Couples, Loving Children (LCLC); 2) pre-marital education and marriage skills; 3) marriage enhancement and marriage skills for married couples; and 4) divorce reduction and relationship skills. All couples will be expected to participate in 24 hours of core relationship education workshops (including parenting education). Since parental financial support represents a core element of family stability, relationship education workshops will address motivation for providing financial support through employment for all couples (employed and unemployed) as well as how to manage conflicts over money. All couples will be invited to supplemental workshops (with couples from other cohorts) on topics of specialized interest, including employment services and financial literacy (i.e. budgeting, debt, etc.) |
Experimental: Virtual (Zoom)
Participants will complete their intake process in person, but will complete all workshops virtually through Zoom.
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The investigator will provide the following 4 activities: 1) marriage and relationship education [using a modified version of the empirically supported Loving Couples, Loving Children (LCLC); 2) pre-marital education and marriage skills; 3) marriage enhancement and marriage skills for married couples; and 4) divorce reduction and relationship skills. All couples will be expected to participate in 24 hours of core relationship education workshops (including parenting education). Since parental financial support represents a core element of family stability, relationship education workshops will address motivation for providing financial support through employment for all couples (employed and unemployed) as well as how to manage conflicts over money. All couples will be invited to supplemental workshops (with couples from other cohorts) on topics of specialized interest, including employment services and financial literacy (i.e. budgeting, debt, etc.) |
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Relationship Satisfaction at 6 months
Time Frame: Baseline and 6 month follow up
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Relationship satisfaction is assessed using the Couples Satisfaction Index-32 (Funk & Rogge, 2007): Considered the gold standard, this measure detects differences in relationship satisfaction with great precision.
This outcome measure is a scale (value 0 to 5 and 6 for one item, ranging from never; extremely bad; extremely unhappy; not at all true; always disagree, to more often; extremely good; perfect; completely true; always agree), calculated by summing the responses across all of the items.
Scores can range from 0 to 161.
Higher scores indicate higher levels of relationship satisfaction and scores falling below 104.5 suggest notable relationship dissatisfaction.
This measure has demonstrated excellent internal consistency, convergent validity, and construct validity.
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Baseline and 6 month follow up
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Applicant Characteristics
Time Frame: Baseline
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This is a survey developed by the Office of Family Assistance utilized by all grantees participating in the national study, that gathers demographic information regarding participants.
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Baseline
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Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Pre-Program Survey
Time Frame: At start of intervention (Week 1 of 12)
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This is a survey developed by the Office of Family Assistance utilized by all grantees participating in the national study that includes questions regarding relationship satisfaction, financial stability, and parenting
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At start of intervention (Week 1 of 12)
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Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Post-Program Survey
Time Frame: Immediately post intervention (Week 12 of 12 weeks)
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This is a survey developed by the Office of Family Assistance utilized by all grantees participating in the national study that includes questions regarding relationship satisfaction, financial stability, and parenting.
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Immediately post intervention (Week 12 of 12 weeks)
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Assessing Emotions Scale (Emotion Intelligence)
Time Frame: Changes from Baseline Emotion Intelligence at 6 month follow up
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Emotional intelligence is assessed using the Assessing Emotions Scale (Schutte, et al., 1998).
This outcome measure is a 33-item measure of emotional intelligence that uses a Likert scale of measurement (value 1 - 5, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree), calculated by summing the responses across all items.
Higher scores indicate higher levels of emotional intelligence.
For men, scores below 109 indicate low emotional intelligence; scores between 109 and 131 indicate average emotional intelligence; and scores above 131 indicate high emotional intelligence.
For women, scores below 116 indicate low emotional intelligence; scores between 116 and 145 indicate average emotional intelligence; and scores above 145 indicate high emotional intelligence.
This measure has demonstrated good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity.
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Changes from Baseline Emotion Intelligence at 6 month follow up
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Parenting Alliance Inventory (Quality of Co-Parenting Relationship)
Time Frame: Changes from Baseline Quality of Co-Parenting Relationship at 6 month follow up
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Parenting Alliance Inventory (Abidin & Brunner, 1995), is a self-report instrument that assesses the degree to which parents believe that they have a sound working relationship with their child's other parent using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree).
All items are averaged to create a global parenting alliance score.
Higher scores indicate a stronger parenting alliance.
Used in PACT study.
This measure demonstrated excellent internal consistency and good construct and concurrent validity.
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Changes from Baseline Quality of Co-Parenting Relationship at 6 month follow up
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The Experiences in Close Relationships - Relationship Structures Questionnaire (ECR-RS) (Adult Attachment Patterns)
Time Frame: Changes from Baseline Adult Attachment Patterns at 6 month follow up
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Adult attachment is assessed using the Experiences in Close Relationships - Relationship Structures Questionnaire (ECR-RS) (Fraley, et al., 2011).
This outcome measure is a 9-item measure that can be used to assess attachment styles with respect to 4 targets (i.e., mother, father, romantic partner, and best friend).
We intend to assess mother, father, and romantic partner attachments at baseline and then only romantic partner attachment at follow-up to assess change in adult attachment.
This scale uses a Likert scale of measurement (7-point scale where 1 = strongly disagree and 7 = strongly agree) and calculated by averaging certain items together to form specific domains (attachment-related anxiety, attachment-related avoidance, and global attachment).
This measure has demonstrated excellent internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and criterion validity.
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Changes from Baseline Adult Attachment Patterns at 6 month follow up
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Skills Assessment (Skills Acquisition)
Time Frame: Change from Baseline Skills at immediately post intervention and at 6 months
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Skill acquisition is assessed using the Skills Assessment.
This outcome measure is a 14 item, multiple choice, homegrown assessment to determine whether couples learned skills and techniques taught at workshops.
There are two versions of this measure, A and B. This measure is calculated by obtaining the percentage of correctly-scored items.
Higher scores indicate greater skill acquisition.
Given that this is a homegrown measure, to validate this measure, we will correlate the skill assessment scores with the well validated Assessing Emotions Scale, and assess whether relationship skill scores differ by key demographic and social economic factors.
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Change from Baseline Skills at immediately post intervention and at 6 months
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Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) (Childhood Trauma)
Time Frame: Baseline
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Childhood trauma is assessed using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF, Bernstein, et al., 2003).
The CTQ is a 28-item measure of childhood trauma that uses a Likert scale of measurement ranging from 1 (never true) to 5 (very often true).
Items are divided into 5 sub-categories: emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect.
This measure is calculated by summing most responses and reverse scoring select items and has demonstrated good test-retest reliability, criterion-related validity, and internal consistency.
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Baseline
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Scott Wetzler, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center
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- 2021-12751
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