Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2020
Direct and indirect effects of a couple-focused preventive intervention on children's outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with African American families.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations between interparental and sibling relationships: Positive or negative?PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- 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
- 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
- Can Interventions that Strengthen Couples' Relationships Confer Additional Benefits for their Health? A Randomized Controlled Trial with African American Couples.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Brief Parent-Child Substance Use Education Intervention for Black Families in Urban Cities in New Jersey: Protocol for a Formative Study Design.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Testing Whether Protective Parenting is a Causal Mediator of Intervention Effects on Decreased Delinquency Using a Randomized Prevention Trial.Justice quarterly : JQ · 2024Article
- Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following Family Expectations program participation.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2023Article
- Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2022Article
- Strengthening lower-income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Family process · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined the effects of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) prevention program on children's outcomes more than 2 years after enrollment, including direct effects of the intervention and indirect effects through couple functioning and parent-child relations.
methodThree hundred forty-six African American couples with an early adolescent child participated; all families lived in rural, low-income communities in the southern United States. Families were randomly assigned to ProSAAF or control conditions and completed four waves of data collection. Couples reported couple functioning at baseline (Wave 1) and at 9-month follow-up (Wave 2), and parent-child relations at 17-month follow-up (Wave 3). Children reported their conduct problems, affiliation with deviant peers, substance use, sexual onset, depressive symptoms, and self-control at 25-month follow-up (Wave 4).
resultsPath analyses indicated significant indirect effects of ProSAAF on children's outcomes through improvements in couple functioning and better parent-child relations. There were no significant direct effects of the intervention on children's outcomes or significant indirect effects through couple functioning alone.
conclusionsThis couple-focused prevention program has positive indirect effects on several child outcomes through the intervening processes of promoting improvements in couple functioning and better parent-child relations. These findings provide cautious optimism regarding the possible benefits of couple-focused programming on participants' children while suggesting ways in which future couple-focused interventions could yield stronger effects on these youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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