ArticleFamily relations2014
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Relationship Education in the U.S. Army: 2-Year Outcomes.
Article in Family relations, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Improving Couples' Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Rural African American Couples.Behavior therapy · 2019Trial
- The Protecting Strong African American Families Program: a Randomized Controlled Trial with Rural African American Couples.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- Enhancing Relationship Functioning and Relationship Deployment Readiness: Dyadic Changes Through the Adventures in Marriage (AIM) Program Among Military Couples.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Article
- Genetic and subjective sensitivity, relationship dynamics, and psychological distress in couples.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010-2019.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2022Review
- A Call for Theoretically Informed and Empirically Validated Military Family Interventions.Journal of family theory & review · 2018Article
- Something to talk about: Topics of conversation between romantic partners during military deployments.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Article
- Is Communication a Mechanism of Relationship Education Effects among Rural African Americans?Journal of marriage and the family · 2017Article
- Associations Between Participant Ratings of PREP for Strong Bonds and Marital Outcomes 1 Year Postintervention.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2017Article
- Within- and Between-Family Associations of Marital Functioning and Child Well-being.Journal of marriage and the family · 2017Article
- PREP for Strong Bonds: A review of outcomes from a randomized clinical trial.Contemporary family therapy · 2015Article
- Can marriage education mitigate the risks associated with premarital cohabitation?Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2015Article
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This study examined the effectiveness of an evidence-based, community-delivered adaptation of couple relationship education (CRE; specifically, PREP, The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) delivered at two Army installations. The study is a randomized controlled trial with two years of follow-up, examining marital quality and stability. Sample composition was 662 married couples with a spouse in the U.S. Army. Analyses yielded no evidence of overall enduring intervention effects on relationship quality but couples assigned to intervention at the higher risk site were significantly less likely than controls to be divorced at the two-year follow-up (8.1% vs. 14.9%,
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