Parenting Education Curriculum4yourchildNCT02843113
Stepping Up 4 Your Child
A study testing 4 Your Child Program in people with Parenting Education Curriculum and Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management, run by University of Louisville at 6 sites in United States.
Trial summary
Through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 16 to 105 years, men onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Parenting Education Curriculum, Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management, Waiting List Control
- What is being tested?
- 4 Your Child Program
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 1,266 participants
- Where
- 6 sitesUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Jul 2016to 30 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 16 to 105 years
- Men only
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- non-custodial father AND
- age 16-24 OR
- age 24 up + low income OR
- age 24 up + child support payment delinquent
Who cannot join
- female
- custodial father
- male but not a father
- younger than age 16
Trial locations and contacts
6 sites in 1 country.
6 sites in 1 country
United States6 sites
Study site
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 42701
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, 40292
Study site
Owensboro, Kentucky, 42302
Study site
Owenton, Kentucky, 40359
Study site
Paducah, Kentucky, 42003
Study site
Sandy Hook, Kentucky, 41171
About this study
Official title: Stepping Up 4 Your Child: The Impact of an Educational Program and Social Case Work Involvement on Single Fathers
Through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance.
Read the detailed description
Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has received increased attention in recent years. In response, support has grown for responsible fatherhood programs aimed at improving the quantity and quality of fathers' involvement. Research on these programs has concluded that factors such as fathers' parenting skills, co-parenting relationship quality, and socioeconomic status all impact fathers' ability to contribute to their children's growth and development. Using this previous research as a foundation, the Stepping Up 4 Your Child project will go beyond traditional fatherhood initiatives by integrating the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. To do so, the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work will leverage its existing relationship with the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement. Specifically, through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance. Given that each of these focus areas have all been cited as three of the strongest predictors of paternal engagement, Stepping Up 4 Your Child and the results of its evaluation will have significant implications for the families it serves, as well as the practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in responsible fatherhood. 1
- Conditions
- Parenting Education Curriculum, Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management, Waiting List Control
- Being tested
- 4 Your Child Program
- Keywords
- single father, parenting behavior
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
4 Your Child ProgramBehavioural
Integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Your Child Program | Experimental | Program integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. Receives: Behavioral: 4 Your Child Program |
| 4 Your Child + Case Management | Experimental | Participants assigned to treatment group that includes case management will receive an initial assessment to determine their strengths and needs. The participant will then work collaboratively with their case manager to connect to community resources to meet his needs. To do so, the case manager will meet with the participant using the following schedule: Months 1-2: intervention in the form of weekly face-to-face meeting with a case manager, plus a weekly phone call from a case manager; Months 3-4: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting every other week, plus a weekly phone call; Months 5-6: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting once a month, plus a weekly phone call. Receives: Behavioral: 4 Your Child Program |
| Waiting list control | No intervention | Individuals who are randomly assigned to this condition will receive no treatment for a period of months in parallel with the experimental intervention conditions. Data will be gathered from them, and they will be randomly assigned to a treatment condition when possible. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Fathering Knowledge and Skills.
Fathering knowledge and skills will be measured using the 24/7 Dad Fathering Skills Survey (National Fatherhood Initiative, 2010). This survey has 25 items that are multiple choice response questions. This survey comes with the 24/7 Dad curriculum packet. Given that this survey is a measure of fathering knowledge and not a standardized scale, no reliability data are available.
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Change in Fathers' Parenting Behavior.
Fathers' reported parenting behavior will be measured using the Index of Father Involvement (Hawkins et al., 2002). This measure has 9 factors loaded as subscales designed to tap direct and indirect forms of involvement and a total of 26 items. All items are measured on a 5 point scale ranging from A (excellent) to F (failing). The measure has a reported reliability/internal consistency score of .69
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Change in Child Support Compliance.
These payment data will be obtained via reports from the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement.
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Change in Co-Parenting Relationship Quality.
Co-Parenting Relationship Quality. Co-parenting relationship quality will be measured using the Co-parenting Questionnaire (CQ, Margolis, Gordis, \& John, 2001). This measure is a 14-item self-report instrument examining: 1) the amount of conflict between parents surrounding parenting issues, 2) cooperation as the extent to which mothers and fathers support, value, and respect each other as parents and the degree to which they ease one another's parenting burden, and 3) triangulation, the extent to which parents distort parent-child boundaries by attempting to form a coalition with the child that undermines or excludes the other parent. The 14 items form a three factor structure and have good internal consistency with alphas for the 3 factors and the total scale ranging from .69 to .87.
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Secondary outcomes (2)
Change in Conflict Resolution Skills.
The Stanley-Markman Relationship Dynamics Scale (Renick et al, 1992) will be used to measure conflict resolution skills. This measure has reported Chronbach's alpha levels of .73 and .81 (Stanley et al, 2006) and strong predictive validity for relationship failure.
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Change in Communication Skills.
Communication skills will be measured through the Communication Patterns Questionnaire to assess communication skills. This measure has strong discriminant validity and Chronbach's alpha levels ranging from .73 to .88 (Noller \& White, 1990).
Measured: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted25 Jul 2016 (estimated)
- Study start1 Jul 2016
- Primary completion30 Dec 2020
- Study completion30 Dec 2020
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Parenting Education CurriculumStudies 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
- 1,266 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Louisville
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Kentucky Cabinet for Health & Family Services
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Armon R. Perry, University of Louisville
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02843113
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 15.1258
- Acronym
- 4yourchild
- Status last verified
- Jul 2021
- First submitted
- 7 Jul 2016
- Last updated
- 28 Jul 2021
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 28 Jul 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Stepping Up 4 Your Child: The Impact of an Educational Program and Social Case Work Involvement on Single Fathers
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02843113
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 4yourchild / 15.1258
- Conditions
- Parenting Education Curriculum, Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management, Waiting List Control
- Keywords
- single father, parenting behavior
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 1,266 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of LouisvilleUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Kentucky Cabinet for Health & Family Services
- Study start
- 1 Jul 2016 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Dec 2020 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Dec 2020 (actual)
- First posted
- 25 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.
Through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance.
Detailed description
Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has received increased attention in recent years. In response, support has grown for responsible fatherhood programs aimed at improving the quantity and quality of fathers' involvement. Research on these programs has concluded that factors such as fathers' parenting skills, co-parenting relationship quality, and socioeconomic status all impact fathers' ability to contribute to their children's growth and development. Using this previous research as a foundation, the Stepping Up 4 Your Child project will go beyond traditional fatherhood initiatives by integrating the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. To do so, the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work will leverage its existing relationship with the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement. Specifically, through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance. Given that each of these focus areas have all been cited as three of the strongest predictors of paternal engagement, Stepping Up 4 Your Child and the results of its evaluation will have significant implications for the families it serves, as well as the practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in responsible fatherhood. 1
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 3
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Your Child Program | Experimental | Behavioral: 4 Your Child ProgramProgram integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. |
| 4 Your Child + Case Management | Experimental | Behavioral: 4 Your Child ProgramParticipants assigned to treatment group that includes case management will receive an initial assessment to determine their strengths and needs. The participant will then work collaboratively with their case manager to connect to community resources to meet his needs. To do so, the case manager will meet with the participant using the following schedule: Months 1-2: intervention in the form of weekly face-to-face meeting with a case manager, plus a weekly phone call from a case manager; Months 3-4: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting every other week, plus a weekly phone call; Months 5-6: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting once a month, plus a weekly phone call. |
| Waiting list control | No intervention | –Individuals who are randomly assigned to this condition will receive no treatment for a period of months in parallel with the experimental intervention conditions. Data will be gathered from them, and they will be randomly assigned to a treatment condition when possible. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 16 to 105 years
- Sex
- Male only
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- non-custodial father AND
- age 16-24 OR
- age 24 up + low income OR
- age 24 up + child support payment delinquent
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- female
- custodial father
- male but not a father
- younger than age 16
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Your Child ProgramIntegrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. | Behavioural | 4 Your Child + Case Management, 4 Your Child Program |
Primary outcome
Change in Fathering Knowledge and Skills.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Fathering knowledge and skills will be measured using the 24/7 Dad Fathering Skills Survey (National Fatherhood Initiative, 2010). This survey has 25 items that are multiple choice response questions. This survey comes with the 24/7 Dad curriculum packet. Given that this survey is a measure of fathering knowledge and not a standardized scale, no reliability data are available.
Change in Fathers' Parenting Behavior.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Fathers' reported parenting behavior will be measured using the Index of Father Involvement (Hawkins et al., 2002). This measure has 9 factors loaded as subscales designed to tap direct and indirect forms of involvement and a total of 26 items. All items are measured on a 5 point scale ranging from A (excellent) to F (failing). The measure has a reported reliability/internal consistency score of .69
Change in Child Support Compliance.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
These payment data will be obtained via reports from the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement.
Change in Co-Parenting Relationship Quality.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Co-Parenting Relationship Quality. Co-parenting relationship quality will be measured using the Co-parenting Questionnaire (CQ, Margolis, Gordis, \& John, 2001). This measure is a 14-item self-report instrument examining: 1) the amount of conflict between parents surrounding parenting issues, 2) cooperation as the extent to which mothers and fathers support, value, and respect each other as parents and the degree to which they ease one another's parenting burden, and 3) triangulation, the extent to which parents distort parent-child boundaries by attempting to form a coalition with the child that undermines or excludes the other parent. The 14 items form a three factor structure and have good internal consistency with alphas for the 3 factors and the total scale ranging from .69 to .87.
2 secondary outcomes
Change in Conflict Resolution Skills.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
Change in Communication Skills.
Time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later
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 28 Jul 2021.
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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.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing 4 Your Child Program in people with Parenting Education Curriculum and Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management, run by University of Louisville at 6 sites 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 4 inclusion and 4 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 28 Jul 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 6 sites 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?
Change in Fathering Knowledge and Skills. (time frame: immediate after intervention, at 3 months later and at 6 months later). The study lists 4 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 28 Jul 2021.