NCT01304719

A Computer-based Intervention to Augment Home Visitation Services: The E-Parenting Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 413 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Federal
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current protocol aims to examine the effects of a computer-based intervention used in conjunction with existing Healthy Families America (HFA) home visitation programs on the challenges related to participant enrollment, retention, and motivation as well as parent and child outcomes.

Detailed description

The present study aims to determine whether a computer-based intervention can provide augmentation of home visiting services to decrease the risk of child maltreatment. The computer-based software includes modules on motivation, Cognitive Retraining, and elements of the ecobehavioral SafeCare approach. A total of 420 mother-infant dyads from four Healthy Families America (HFA) sites will be randomly assigned to either treatment as usual, software-supplemented home visitation, or community control conditions. For families in the software-supplemented condition, home visitors will present the software to parents via a Tablet PC during regular home visits. All parents will be followed-up at 6, 12, and 18 months by independent and blinded research assistants. Parents are evaluated for maltreatment and maltreatment risks as measured by self-report, home visitor report, blinded independent observers, and statewide CPS data. If validated, the proposed intervention can provide augmentation of home visiting services with unprecedented ease of dissemination, at negligible additional cost, and with limitless potential for further development.

Conditions

• Child Maltreatment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Computer Assisted Healthy Families America Home Visitation	Computer modules added to home visitation protocol for Healthy Families America
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Families America Home Visitation	Healthy Families America Home Visitation Treatment as Usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2011-02-25
• Last updated: 2013-05-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States