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An Evaluation of Selected Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Programs: Parents and Children Together (PACT)

25 september 2020 bijgewerkt door: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Parents and Children Together

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of selected healthy marriage (HM) and responsible fatherhood (RF) grant programs, authorized by by the Claims Resolution Act of 2010. The programs are intended to improve the well-being of parents and families in domains such as economic self-sufficiency, parenting, and healthy relationships.

Studie Overzicht

Toestand

Voltooid

Conditie

Interventie / Behandeling

Gedetailleerde beschrijving

Since 2006, Congress has provided funding for grants to provide healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood services to help interested couples and fathers enhance or improve adult and parent-child relationships and meet other objectives. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), oversees these grants and provides supports to assist grantees to meet their goals and objectives. To learn about the implementation and effects of these programs, ACF awarded a contract in 2011 to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. to conduct the Parents and Children Together (PACT) evaluation. The evaluation includes separate impact and process studies for responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage programs.

Individuals who are eligible for the programs and agree to be in the study are randomly assigned to either a program group or a control group. Program group members are offered program services; control group members are not offered those services but are able to receive other services available in the community. The impact studies will examine whether the programs improve outcomes for fathers, mothers, families, and children in the program group compared to outcomes of those in the control group. Members of both program and control groups are surveyed twice: before they are randomly assigned and 12 months later. At the 12-month follow-up, both groups will be asked to complete a telephone survey. The survey will cover a range of questions related to adult relationships and interactions, parent-child interactions and economic stability. Corresponding process studies will examine multiple aspects of the implementation and operation of the programs. Information for the process studies will be obtained through: interviews with program and partner organization managers and staff; observations of program operations; from focus groups with program participants and non-participants; and from data from each grantee's management information system.

Studietype

Ingrijpend

Fase

  • Niet toepasbaar

Contacten en locaties

In dit gedeelte vindt u de contactgegevens van degenen die het onderzoek uitvoeren en informatie over waar dit onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd.

Studie Locaties

  • Verenigde Staten
    • Florida
      • Sarasota, Florida, Verenigde Staten
        • Jewish Family and Children's Services
    • Minnesota
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
        • Goodwill/Easter Seals Minnesota
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
        • Urban Ventures
    • Missouri
      • Kansas City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
        • Connections to Success
      • Saint Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
        • Fathers' Support Center
    • New York
      • Bronx, New York, Verenigde Staten
        • University Behavioral Associates
    • Texas
      • El Paso, Texas, Verenigde Staten
        • El Paso Center for Children

Deelname Criteria

Onderzoekers zoeken naar mensen die aan een bepaalde beschrijving voldoen, de zogenaamde geschiktheidscriteria. Enkele voorbeelden van deze criteria zijn iemands algemene gezondheidstoestand of eerdere behandelingen.

Geschiktheidscriteria

Leeftijden die in aanmerking komen voor studie

18 jaar en ouder (Volwassen, Oudere volwassene)

Accepteert gezonde vrijwilligers

Ja

Geslachten die in aanmerking komen voor studie

Allemaal

Beschrijving

Inclusion Criteria:

  • To be eligible for the PACT HM Evaluation, the applicant must be part of a couple (as defined by the couple) in which both couple members are applying to the program and that:

    1. Both members of the couple are eligible for the program
    2. Both members of the couple are 18 years of age or older
    3. One member of the couple is female and the other male
    4. At least one member of the couple is an expectant parent or a parent of a biological or adoptive child who is living with him or her (That is the children do not need to be children in common and they need to be living with only one parent)

  • To be eligible for the PACT RF evaluation, the individual must:

    1. Be male
    2. Be 18 years or older
    3. Have a living biological or adopted child or is expecting a child

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Does not meet the inclusion criteria

Studie plan

Dit gedeelte bevat details van het studieplan, inclusief hoe de studie is opgezet en wat de studie meet.

Hoe is de studie opgezet?

Ontwerpdetails

  • Primair doel: Behandeling
  • Toewijzing: Gerandomiseerd
  • Interventioneel model: Opdracht voor een enkele groep

Wapens en interventies

Deelnemersgroep / Arm
Interventie / Behandeling
Experimenteel: Controle
Gedragsmatig: Other services in the community
RF grantees funded by the most recent re-authorization of the program must offer services in each of three categories: (1) healthy marriage; (2) responsible parenting; and (3) economic stability. HM grantees must provide one or more of eight allowable activities, which include marriage and relationship skills programs, mentoring, divorce reduction programs, and education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationships skills, and budgeting.
Experimenteel: Responsible fatherhood or healthy marriage
Gedragsmatig: Responsible Fatherhood or Healthy Marriage Program
RF grantees funded by the most recent re-authorization of the program must offer services in each of three categories: (1) healthy marriage; (2) responsible parenting; and (3) economic stability. HM grantees must provide one or more of eight allowable activities, which include marriage and relationship skills programs, mentoring, divorce reduction programs, and education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationships skills, and budgeting.

Wat meet het onderzoek?

Primaire uitkomstmaten

Uitkomstmaat
Maatregel Beschrijving
Tijdsspanne
In-person contact with child(ren) in past month
Tijdsspanne: 12 months
12 months
Earnings in past year
Tijdsspanne: 12 months
12 months
Co-parenting teamwork
Tijdsspanne: 12 months
Agreement with whether father and mother work well together as parents
12 months

Medewerkers en onderzoekers

Hier vindt u mensen en organisaties die betrokken zijn bij dit onderzoek.

Sponsor

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Medewerkers

Department of Health and Human Services

Onderzoekers

  • Studie directeur: Sheena McConnell, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research
  • Studie directeur: Robin Dion, M.A., Mathematica Policy Research

Studie record data

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Bestudeer belangrijke data

Studie start

1 december 2012

Primaire voltooiing (Werkelijk)

1 april 2015

Studie voltooiing (Werkelijk)

1 september 2020

Studieregistratiedata

Eerst ingediend

31 januari 2014

Eerst ingediend dat voldeed aan de QC-criteria

4 februari 2014

Eerst geplaatst (Schatting)

6 februari 2014

Updates van studierecords

Laatste update geplaatst (Werkelijk)

28 september 2020

Laatste update ingediend die voldeed aan QC-criteria

25 september 2020

Laatst geverifieerd

1 september 2020

Meer informatie

Termen gerelateerd aan deze studie

Trefwoorden

Andere studie-ID-nummers

  • MPR06997

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