Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2016
Couple-Focused Prevention at the Transition to Parenthood, a Randomized Trial: Effects on Coparenting, Parenting, Family Violence, and Parent and Child Adjustment.
Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 67 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Construction and Effect Evaluation of Parent Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact Intervention Program Based on The Co-parenting Theory
Connect to Baby: A Pilot Study of a Parenting and Coparenting Program for New Parents
Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Father-Focused Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and Early Parenthood: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2025Pooled it
- Early parenting interventions to prevent internalising problems in children and adolescents: a global systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ mental health · 2023Pooled it
- Psychological therapies for women who experience intimate partner violence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Parent Training Programs for Child Maltreatment and Their Components: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of a family-centered empowerment intervention on role adaptation and depressive symptoms in high-risk primigravidas and their partners.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Trial
- Secondary benefits of a brief couples intervention on coparenting through relationship quality and partner conflict.Infant mental health journal · 2025Trial
- The Tavistock First-Time Parent Study: a pilot randomised controlled feasibility trial of a brief couple-focused perinatal intervention to reduce inter-parental discord.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning.Family process · 2022Trial
- Building long-term family resilience through universal prevention: 10-year parent and child outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.Family process · 2022Trial
- Relational impacts of capitalization in early parenthood.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Trial
- Improved Child Mental Health Following Brief Relationship Enhancement and Co-Parenting Interventions During the Transition to Parenthood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Impact of the Couple CARE for Parents of Newborns Program on the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Relationship Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Trial
- Feasibility, Satisfaction, and Preliminary Efficacy Trial of text4FATHER for Engaging Expectant Fathers in Infant Care from Pregnancy to Early Infancy.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Understanding the Associations Between Attachment Insecurity, Emotional Flooding, and Conflict Behaviors in Prenatal Couples.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Article
- Longitudinal associations between father- and mother-child interactions, coparenting, and child cardiometabolic health.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development: A Systematic Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Couples-based interventions for perinatal depression and anxiety: A global systematic review.SSM. Mental health · 2026Article
- The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of a Prenatal Preventive Intervention Program for Coparenting: A Pilot Study in Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Interparental processes mitigating risk for psychological aggression during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Can a programme to support parents reduce both violence against women and violence against children? A pre-post pilot test in Zimbabwe.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The transition to parenthood is a stressful period for most parents as individuals and as couples, with variability in parent mental health and couple relationship functioning linked to children's long-term emotional, mental health, and academic outcomes. Few couple-focused prevention programs targeting this period have been shown to be effective. The purpose of this study was to test the short-term efficacy of a brief, universal, transition-to-parenthood intervention (Family Foundations) and report the results of this randomized trial at 10 months postpartum. This was a randomized controlled trial; 399 couples expecting their first child were randomly assigned to intervention or control conditions after pretest. Intervention couples received a manualized nine-session (five prenatal and four postnatal classes) psychoeducational program delivered in small groups. Intent-to-treat analyses indicated that intervention couples demonstrated better posttest levels than control couples on more than two thirds of measures of coparenting, parent mental health, parenting, child adjustment, and family violence. Program effects on family violence were particularly large. Of eight outcome variables that did not demonstrate main effects, seven showed moderated intervention impact; such that, intervention couples at higher levels of risk during pregnancy showed better outcomes than control couples at similar levels of risk. These findings replicate a prior smaller study of Family Foundations, indicating that the Family Foundations approach to supporting couples making the transition to parenthood can have broad impact for parents, family relationships, and children's adjustment. Program effects are consistent and benefit all families, with particularly notable effects for families at elevated prenatal risk.
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