InterventionREACHNCT05299138
Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH)
A study testing Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention in people with Intervention and Wait List Control, run by Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc. at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Intervention, Wait List Control
- What is being tested?
- Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 900 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 17 Feb 2022to 1 Jun 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
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 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- adults age 18 or older
- interested in education about strengthening their current marriage or committed relationship
- reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Who cannot join
- under age 18
- do not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Jewish Family and Children Service
Sarasota, Florida, 34237
Megan Sicks, BA, 9413662224 ext. 104, msicks@jfcs-cares.org
About this study
Official title: Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH) in Sarasota Florida
The goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase successful marriage rates. Data from the tri-county region comprised of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties demonstrates the presence of a number of risk factors affecting family stability, including high rates of single-parent households, births to unwed mothers, and high median rent costs compared to poverty rates and income. By providing families with relationship enhancement, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency services, this should help to optimize each family member's quality of life and improve child well-being.
Read the detailed description
REACH will serve a minimum of 337 individual adults during each full year of the five-year grant term in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida. REACH will target individual participants and, in cases where both members of a couple are interested in participating, will deliver services to each partner individually. The primary target population for REACH is low-income, at-risk individuals.
Coupled with its successful history of providing healthy marriage programming, JFCS is well-positioned to help families in crisis become more stable and self-sufficient. Understanding the inextricable link between financial security and family stability, REACH is targeting and reaching the most vulnerable individuals based solely on economic risk factors. REACH will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement. This will help families in crisis reach improved financial stability, which will in turn improve the ability of individual participants to be better parents and better partners, furthering the goal of promoting healthy marriages and reducing local divorce rates.
- Conditions
- Intervention, Wait List Control
- Being tested
- Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention
- Keywords
- Healthy relationships, economic self-sufficiency
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) InterventionBehavioural
The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class that is convenient for their schedule. Intervention participants will attend classes weekly and meet with their Case Manager weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, as needed. Study measures will be gathered from intervention participants at baseline, 10 weeks after baseline, and then 22 weeks after baseline. The following tools will be utilized at baseline and follow-up assessment: (1) REACH program eligibility screening (only conducted at baseline), (2) Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) system, (3) Family Environment Scale (FES), (4) Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and (5) Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS).
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention | Experimental | The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed. Receives: Behavioral: Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention |
| Wait list control | No intervention | The Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 22-week follow-up measures. Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 22-week measures. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Family Environment Survey (FES)
The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.
Measured: 22 weeks after baseline
Secondary outcomes (1)
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
The RDAS is a 32-item self-report standardized measure with 4 subscales (Dyadic Consensus, Dyadic Satisfaction, Affectional Expression, Dyadic Cohesion) in addition to a total score.
Measured: 22 weeks after baseline
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted28 Mar 2022
- Study start17 Feb 2022
- Primary completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for InterventionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
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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
- Model description
- The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed.
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 900 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Katelyn Kopakin, MA, Study director, Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05299138
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 20220208
- Acronym
- REACH
- Status last verified
- Feb 2025
- First submitted
- 3 Mar 2022
- Last updated
- 27 Feb 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 27 Feb 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH) in Sarasota Florida
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05299138
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- REACH / 20220208
- Conditions
- Intervention, Wait List Control
- Keywords
- Healthy relationships, economic self-sufficiency
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 900 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.University, hospital or other
- Study start
- 17 Feb 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- First posted
- 28 Mar 2022 (actual)
- 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 goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase successful marriage rates. Data from the tri-county region comprised of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties demonstrates the presence of a number of risk factors affecting family stability, including high rates of single-parent households, births to unwed mothers, and high median rent costs compared to poverty rates and income. By providing families with relationship enhancement, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency services, this should help to optimize each family member's quality of life and improve child well-being.
Detailed description
REACH will serve a minimum of 337 individual adults during each full year of the five-year grant term in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida. REACH will target individual participants and, in cases where both members of a couple are interested in participating, will deliver services to each partner individually. The primary target population for REACH is low-income, at-risk individuals.
Coupled with its successful history of providing healthy marriage programming, JFCS is well-positioned to help families in crisis become more stable and self-sufficient. Understanding the inextricable link between financial security and family stability, REACH is targeting and reaching the most vulnerable individuals based solely on economic risk factors. REACH will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement. This will help families in crisis reach improved financial stability, which will in turn improve the ability of individual participants to be better parents and better partners, furthering the goal of promoting healthy marriages and reducing local divorce rates.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention | Experimental | Behavioral: Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) InterventionThe Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed. |
| Wait list control | No intervention | –The Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 22-week follow-up measures. Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 22-week measures. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- adults age 18 or older
- interested in education about strengthening their current marriage or committed relationship
- reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- under age 18
- do not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) InterventionThe Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class that is convenient for their schedule. Intervention participants will attend classes weekly and meet with their Case Manager weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, as needed. Study measures will be gathered from intervention participants at baseline, 10 weeks after baseline, and then 22 weeks after baseline. The following tools will be utilized at baseline and follow-up assessment: (1) REACH program eligibility screening (only conducted at baseline), (2) Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) system, (3) Family Environment Scale (FES), (4) Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and (5) Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS). | Behavioural | Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention |
Primary outcome
Family Environment Survey (FES)
Time frame: 22 weeks after baseline
The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.
1 secondary outcome
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
Time frame: 22 weeks after baseline
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 27 Feb 2025.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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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.
Katelyn Kopakin, MA study director
Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention in people with Intervention and Wait List Control, run by Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, 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 3 inclusion and 2 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: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Feb 2025. 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?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Andrew Truman, BS (9412564130, atruman@jfcs-cares.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Family Environment Survey (FES) (time frame: 22 weeks after baseline). 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 27 Feb 2025.