NCT01407120

15 Year Follow-up of New Beginnings Program for Divorced Families

Effects of NBP for Children of Divorce 15 Years Later

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The project is a 15-year follow-up of 240 young adults whose families participated in an experimental evaluation of the New Beginnings Program (NBP), a preventive intervention for divorced families. The NBP was provided in late childhood; the follow-up occurred in young adulthood. Families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: mother program (MP), dual-component mother and child program (MPCP), or literature-control (LC) condition. Programs were designed to change several putative mediators of children's post-divorce mental health problems using empirically-supported change strategies. The investigators expected that the NBP would have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mental health and substance use problems and disorders, developmental tasks, parent-young adult relationships, physical health problems, and competencies, such that YAs who participated in NBP will have better functioning than YAs in the control condition. The investigators expected that the NBP will have either main or risk by program interactive effects on mothers' mental health; those in the NBP are expected to have fewer mental health problems than those in the control condition.

Conditions

• Mental Disorder
• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	New Beginnings Program	A preventive intervention for divorced families.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2011-08-02
• Last updated: 2011-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States