Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2018
The Protecting Strong African American Families Program: a Randomized Controlled Trial with Rural African American Couples.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Family-Based Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Among Youth: Community Guide Systematic Economic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship intervention moderates the association between substance use and biological aging among Black adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Trial
- Comparing the OurRelationship Program and Bibliotherapy for Parents Experiencing Couple Distress: A Randomized Pilot.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Trial
- Different trajectories of relationship satisfaction among rural Black couples following preventive relationship intervention.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- A culturally grounded prenatal coparenting intervention: Results of a randomized controlled trial with unmarried Black parents.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Trial
- Trajectories of relationship and individual functioning among waitlisted couples for an online relationship intervention.Family process · 2021Trial
- Family-centered prevention buffers the effect of financial strain on parenting interactions, reducing youth conduct problems in African American families.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- Protective parenting behavior buffers the impact of racial discrimination on depression among Black youth.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2021Trial
- Direct and indirect effects of a couple-focused preventive intervention on children's outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with African American families.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2020Trial
- Improving Couples' Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Rural African American Couples.Behavior therapy · 2019Trial
- Stress spillover, African Americans' couple and health outcomes, and the stress-buffering effect of family-centered prevention.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Trial
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- Predictors of Racial Socialization among Black Families: Neighborhood Factors, Racial Discrimination, and Depressive Symptoms.Journal of child and family studies · 2026Article
- Toward Understanding and Halting Legacies of Trauma.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
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- Relationship enhancement protects against relationship-quality-associated weathering among Black adults in romantic partner relationships.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Additive Benefits of Individual, Relational, and Community Factors on Physical- and Mental-Health Trajectories Among Black Americans.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Couple relationship education content: What we have and what we are missing.Family process · 2024Article
- Stress Accumulation, Depressive Symptoms, and Sleep Problems among Black Americans in the Rural South.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Testing Whether Protective Parenting is a Causal Mediator of Intervention Effects on Decreased Delinquency Using a Randomized Prevention Trial.Justice quarterly : JQ · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study presents results from a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program, a family-centered intervention designed to promote strong couple, coparenting, and parent-child relationships in two-parent African American families. A total of 346 African American couples with an early adolescent child participated; all families lived in rural, low-income communities in the southern USA. Intent-to-treat growth curve analyses involving three waves and spanning 17 months indicated that ProSAAF participants, compared with control participants, reported greater improvements in relationship communication, confidence, satisfaction, partner support, coparenting, and parenting. More than 80% of the couples attended all six of the in-home, facilitator-led sessions; costs to implement the program averaged $1739 per family. The findings inform the ongoing debate surrounding prevention programs for low-income and ethnic minority couples.
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