MarriageNCT02829411
Testing the Effectiveness of Integrating Relationship Education Into an Existing Workforce Readiness Program
A study testing Workforce Readiness Program and Relationship education in people with Marriage and Family Relations, run by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The project will test the strategy of integrating 25 hours of relationship education into an existing employment program for low-income individuals ages 18-30. It will use a 2-arm randomized controlled trial to test the effect of this full package of services on participants' employment outcomes and relationship… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 30 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Marriage, Family Relations
- What is being tested?
- Workforce Readiness Program and Relationship education
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 909 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Aug 2016to Dec 2020
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 30 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult
Who may be able to join
- disconnected from workforce
Who cannot join
- -
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
The project will test the strategy of integrating 25 hours of relationship education into an existing employment program for low-income individuals ages 18-30. It will use a 2-arm randomized controlled trial to test the effect of this full package of services on participants' employment outcomes and relationship outcomes.
Read the detailed description
The study will examine the programming by FWCA, which currently offers the Career Pathways Bridge program in three locations in St. Louis County in Missouri. The evaluation will test the strategy of integrating relationship education into an existing workforce readiness program. FWCA plans to add approximately 17 hours of content from the Within My Reach relationship education curriculum to the two-week job readiness workshop it offers as part of the Career Pathways Bridge program. Second, FWCA will add up to eight additional one-hour relationship skills education sessions that customers can attend in the five weeks after completing the initial two-week job readiness workshop.
The evaluation will use a 2-arm randomized controlled trial to test the effect of this full package of services on participants' employment outcomes and relationship outcomes. The target population will be low-income individuals ages 18-30 living in St. Louis County, Missouri. The study will aim to enroll 1000 individuals over 2 years. The Metropolitan Employment and Training (MET) Center will be the primary recruitment and service location.
- Conditions
- Marriage, Family Relations
- Being tested
- Workforce Readiness Program, Relationship education
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Workforce Readiness ProgramBehavioural
job readiness workshops, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks.
Relationship educationBehavioural
25-hours of "Within My Reach" curriculum and relationship skills education sessions
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Services only | Active comparator | 'Workforce Readiness Program'. job readiness workshop, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks. The main content of these sessions will be a program-developed workforce readiness training, developed with funding from a DOL Career Pathways Bridge grant. Receives: Behavioral: Workforce Readiness Program |
| Employment Services with HMRE content | Experimental | 'Workforce Readiness Program supplemented with Relationship Education': job readiness workshop, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks. Program will add approximately 17 hours of content from the Within My Reach relationship education curriculum to the two-week job readiness workshop - and add up to eight additional one-hour relationship skills education sessions that customers can attend in the five weeks after completing the initial two-week job readiness workshop Receives: Behavioral: Workforce Readiness Program; Behavioral: Relationship education |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Perceived romantic relationship skills
Six-item scale (α = 0.84) equal to the average level of agreement-from "strongly disagree" (= 1) to "strongly agree" (= 4)-with 6 statements.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Perceived conflict management skills
Five-item scale (α = 0.77) equal to the average self-assessment-from "I am bad at this" (= 1) to "I am extremely good at this" (= 4)-of 5 skills.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Support for going slow in romantic relationships
Single-item scale equal to the level of agreement-from "strongly disagree" (= 1) to "strongly agree" (= 4)-with the following statement: "People are more likely to succeed in their relationships if they take things slowly."
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Disapproval of couple violence
Five-item scale (α = 0.77) equal to the average level of disagreement-from "strongly agree" (= 1) to "strongly disagree" (= 4)-with 5 statements.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Any exposure to psychological abuse
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that a romantic partner has done any of the following in the past year:
- Try to keep you from seeing or talking with your friends
- Make you feel stupid
- Keep money from you or take your money without asking
- Made you feel afraid that they might hurt you
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Any exposure to physical abuse
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that a romantic partner has done any of the following in the past year:
- Push, shove, or slap you
- Punch or kick you or beat you up
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Any perpetration of physical abuse
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that they did any of the following to a romantic partner in the past year:
- Pushed, shoved, or slapped them
- Punched, kicked, or beat them up
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Involved in an unsteady relationship
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent reports being involved in an on-again/off-again relationship at the time of the follow-up survey and equal to 0 if the respondent reports being married, engaged, romantically involved on a steady basis, or not in a romantic relationship at the time of the follow-up survey.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Had an unintended pregnancy
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent reports that they had been/gotten someone pregnant since study enrollment and that they did not want to be/get someone pregnant or the pregnancy came sooner than intended.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Employed or training to improve job prospects
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent was employed, participating in a job training program, or enrolled in school at the time of the follow-up survey.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Monthly earnings, administrative records
Continuous variable constructed from NDNH data that is created by summing quarterly earnings across the four quarters following random assignment and dividing by 12.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Monthly earnings, survey report
Continuous variable constructed from survey data that is based on average monthly earnings from all jobs in the first year following study enrollment.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Better off financially now
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent feels better off financially now than a year ago.
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Economic hardship
Continuous variable that represents how many of the following six economic hardships the respondent experienced since study enrollment
Measured: 1 year after random assignment
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted12 Jul 2016 (estimated)
- Study startAug 2016
- Primary completionDec 2018
- Study completionDec 2020
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for MarriageStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 909 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Brian Goesling, PhD, Principal investigator, Mathematica Policy Research
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02829411
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- MPR-500098-FWCA
- Status last verified
- Mar 2021
- First submitted
- 8 Jul 2016
- Last updated
- 5 Apr 2021
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 5 Apr 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Testing the Effectiveness of Integrating Relationship Education Into an Existing Workforce Readiness Program
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02829411
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- MPR-500098-FWCA
- Conditions
- Marriage, Family Relations
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 909 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Study start
- Aug 2016 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Dec 2018 (actual)
- Study completion
- Dec 2020 (actual)
- First posted
- 12 Jul 2016 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The project will test the strategy of integrating 25 hours of relationship education into an existing employment program for low-income individuals ages 18-30. It will use a 2-arm randomized controlled trial to test the effect of this full package of services on participants' employment outcomes and relationship outcomes.
Detailed description
The study will examine the programming by FWCA, which currently offers the Career Pathways Bridge program in three locations in St. Louis County in Missouri. The evaluation will test the strategy of integrating relationship education into an existing workforce readiness program. FWCA plans to add approximately 17 hours of content from the Within My Reach relationship education curriculum to the two-week job readiness workshop it offers as part of the Career Pathways Bridge program. Second, FWCA will add up to eight additional one-hour relationship skills education sessions that customers can attend in the five weeks after completing the initial two-week job readiness workshop.
The evaluation will use a 2-arm randomized controlled trial to test the effect of this full package of services on participants' employment outcomes and relationship outcomes. The target population will be low-income individuals ages 18-30 living in St. Louis County, Missouri. The study will aim to enroll 1000 individuals over 2 years. The Metropolitan Employment and Training (MET) Center will be the primary recruitment and service location.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Services only | Active comparator | Behavioral: Workforce Readiness Program'Workforce Readiness Program'. job readiness workshop, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks. The main content of these sessions will be a program-developed workforce readiness training, developed with funding from a DOL Career Pathways Bridge grant. |
| Employment Services with HMRE content | Experimental | Behavioral: Workforce Readiness Program, Behavioral: Relationship education'Workforce Readiness Program supplemented with Relationship Education': job readiness workshop, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks. Program will add approximately 17 hours of content from the Within My Reach relationship education curriculum to the two-week job readiness workshop - and add up to eight additional one-hour relationship skills education sessions that customers can attend in the five weeks after completing the initial two-week job readiness workshop |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 30 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- disconnected from workforce
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- -
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Workforce Readiness Programjob readiness workshops, organized into ten daily sessions over two weeks. | Behavioural | Employment Services only, Employment Services with HMRE content |
| Relationship education25-hours of "Within My Reach" curriculum and relationship skills education sessions | Behavioural | Employment Services with HMRE content |
Primary outcome
Perceived romantic relationship skills
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Six-item scale (α = 0.84) equal to the average level of agreement-from "strongly disagree" (= 1) to "strongly agree" (= 4)-with 6 statements.
Perceived conflict management skills
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Five-item scale (α = 0.77) equal to the average self-assessment-from "I am bad at this" (= 1) to "I am extremely good at this" (= 4)-of 5 skills.
Support for going slow in romantic relationships
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Single-item scale equal to the level of agreement-from "strongly disagree" (= 1) to "strongly agree" (= 4)-with the following statement: "People are more likely to succeed in their relationships if they take things slowly."
Disapproval of couple violence
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Five-item scale (α = 0.77) equal to the average level of disagreement-from "strongly agree" (= 1) to "strongly disagree" (= 4)-with 5 statements.
Any exposure to psychological abuse
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that a romantic partner has done any of the following in the past year: * Try to keep you from seeing or talking with your friends * Make you feel stupid * Keep money from you or take your money without asking * Made you feel afraid that they might hurt you
Any exposure to physical abuse
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that a romantic partner has done any of the following in the past year: * Push, shove, or slap you * Punch or kick you or beat you up
Any perpetration of physical abuse
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent indicates that they did any of the following to a romantic partner in the past year: * Pushed, shoved, or slapped them * Punched, kicked, or beat them up
Involved in an unsteady relationship
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent reports being involved in an on-again/off-again relationship at the time of the follow-up survey and equal to 0 if the respondent reports being married, engaged, romantically involved on a steady basis, or not in a romantic relationship at the time of the follow-up survey.
Had an unintended pregnancy
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent reports that they had been/gotten someone pregnant since study enrollment and that they did not want to be/get someone pregnant or the pregnancy came sooner than intended.
Employed or training to improve job prospects
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent was employed, participating in a job training program, or enrolled in school at the time of the follow-up survey.
Monthly earnings, administrative records
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Continuous variable constructed from NDNH data that is created by summing quarterly earnings across the four quarters following random assignment and dividing by 12.
Monthly earnings, survey report
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Continuous variable constructed from survey data that is based on average monthly earnings from all jobs in the first year following study enrollment.
Better off financially now
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Binary variable equal to 1 if the respondent feels better off financially now than a year ago.
Economic hardship
Time frame: 1 year after random assignment
Continuous variable that represents how many of the following six economic hardships the respondent experienced since study enrollment
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 5 Apr 2021.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Brian Goesling, PhD principal investigator
Mathematica Policy Research
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Workforce Readiness Program and Relationship education in people with Marriage and Family Relations, run by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 5 Apr 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Perceived romantic relationship skills (time frame: 1 year after random assignment). The study lists 14 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 5 Apr 2021.