15 Year Follow-up of New Beginnings Program for Divorced Families

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2/PHASE3

Total Enrollment

240 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-07-31

Study Completion Date

2009-09-30

Brief Summary

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The project is a 15-year follow-up of 240 young adults whose families participated in an experimental evaluation of the New Beginnings Program (NBP), a preventive intervention for divorced families. The NBP was provided in late childhood; the follow-up occurred in young adulthood. Families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: mother program (MP), dual-component mother and child program (MPCP), or literature-control (LC) condition. Programs were designed to change several putative mediators of children's post-divorce mental health problems using empirically-supported change strategies. The investigators expected that the NBP would have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mental health and substance use problems and disorders, developmental tasks, parent-young adult relationships, physical health problems, and competencies, such that YAs who participated in NBP will have better functioning than YAs in the control condition. The investigators expected that the NBP will have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mothers' mental health; those in the NBP are expected to have fewer mental health problems than those in the control condition.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Mental Disorder Substance Use

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Mother Program

11 session program focused on parenting skills

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

New Beginnings Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A preventive intervention for divorced families.

Mother Plus Child Program

11 session Mother Program focused on parenting skills plus 11 session Child program focused on child coping skills

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

New Beginnings Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A preventive intervention for divorced families.

Literature Control

Families received books on children's post-divorce adjustment

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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New Beginnings Program

A preventive intervention for divorced families.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Divorced in past two years
* Female residential parent
* At least one 9-12 year-old child resided (at least 50%) with the mother
* Neither mother nor any child was currently in treatment for mental health problems
* Mother had not remarried nor planned to remarry during the program, and did not have a live-in boyfriend
* Custody was expected to remain stable
* Family resided within an hour drive of program site
* Mother and child could complete assessments in English
* Child was not learning disabled nor in special education
* If diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, child was taking medication

Exclusion Criteria

* Child scored above 17 on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI, endorsed an item indicating that s/he wanted to kill her/himself, or scored above the 97th percentile on the Externalizing Subscale (Child Behavior Checklist \[CBCL\])

Minimum Eligible Age

9 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes